Sökning: "fantastic fiction"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden fantastic fiction.
1. Biblique des derniers gestes de Patrick Chamoiseau : Fantastique et Histoire
Sammanfattning : Patrick Chamoiseau is arguably the most prominent cultural personality from the French island of Martinique. His reputation is due to the worldwide success of his novels, especially Texaco, winner of the Prix Goncourt-award in 1992, but also to the fact that he is the leading theorist of the Créolité, an ideological movement whose aim is to preserve the character of Creole identity and culture against the threat of assimilation. LÄS MER
2. El encuentro imposible. La conformación del fantástico ambiguo en la narrativa breve argentina. (1862-1910) : The Impossible Encounter. The Construccion of the Ambiguously Fantastic en Argentine Short Fiction (1862-1919)
Sammanfattning : This dissertation concentrates on the textual analysis of five short stories from the period 1962-1910, all of which share the same characteristic: they all present the coexistence of a natural and a supernatural domain, being these two domains incompatible according to the premises proposed by the text. Considering the historical time in which these stories appear, a period in which a faith in reason as the means to achieve ‘civilisation’ and ‘progress’ predominates, the coexistence of these two orders in a zone of disquieting ambiguity appears as a challenge to the hegemony of reason and, in an extended sense, as a challenge to the modernisation project. LÄS MER
3. "Creating the Senses" : Sensation in the work of Shelley Jackson
Sammanfattning : This monograph on the œuvre of contemporary American author and multimedia artist Shelley Jackson addresses the question of how literary works employ language to evoke sense impressions. Gilles Deleuze’s notion of aesthetic percepts is drawn on to develop a theory of literary phantom sensations which is then tested on the work of Jackson and related authors. LÄS MER
4. Das Phantastische als Erzählstrategie in vier zeitgenössischen Romanen
Sammanfattning : The present dissertation investigates the use of the fantastic and its functions in contemporary prose, the initial hypothesis being that the fantastic is not historically exhausted, but continues to be productive. The major part of this study consists of a close reading of four novels printed between 1995 and 2001: Marie Hermanson’s Värddjuret (1995), Majgull Axelsson’s Aprilhäxan (1997), Karen Duve’s Regenroman (1999) and Elfriede Kern’s Schwarze Lämmer (2001). LÄS MER
5. Hemsökelser : Gotiken i sex berättelser av Selma Lagerlöf
Sammanfattning : The topic of this thesis is the gothic fiction of Selma Lagerlöf. Its primary purpose is to investigate how Lagerlöf's work can be understood in relation to the gothic genre; what particular themes, motifs and formal aspects appear when making this connection and how they can be interpreted, as well as which literary and cultural contexts become relevant. LÄS MER
