Sökning: "leitmotif"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade ordet leitmotif.
1. Passion Embracing Death : A reading of Nina Sadur's novel 'The Garden'
Sammanfattning : This doctoral dissertation is an analysis of the novel 'The Garden' (1997), by the Russian author Nina Sadur. Drawing on feminist literary criticism, it aims at providing a woman-authored text with the in-depth study the novel’s literary sophistication calls for. LÄS MER
2. Det tänkande landskapet : landskapsskildringarna i Olavi Paavolainens Synkkä yksinpuhelu (Finlandia i moll)
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the distinctive character and variations in the landscape portraits in Synkkä yksinpuhelu, by the Finnish author Olavi Paavolainen, as well as investigate the significance of the landscape portraits for the work as a whole. Paavolainen calls his work a war diary. LÄS MER
3. The Aesthetics of Movement : Variations on Gilles Deleuze and Merce Cunningham
Sammanfattning : This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of the aesthetics of movement in Gilles Deleuze’s writings and in Merce Cunningham’s choreographies. But it is also a study of the movement that arises when the two meet in a series of variations, where also their respective working partners Félix Guattari and John Cage enter. LÄS MER
4. Narrativa identiteter och levande metaforer i ett andraspråksperspektiv
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of two separate yet connected studies which investigate how some adult second language speakers of Swedish with various backgrounds reflect on their experiences of language use. The studies are based on the same empirical data, which consists of questionnaires, diaries, essays and observations, but primarily of conversations conducted with a time interval of six years. LÄS MER
5. Musicalized Characters : A study of music, multimodality, and the empiric child perspective on mainstream animation
Sammanfattning : This thesis is an audience reception study of film music and animation film. It focuses on the musical construction of characters, looking at how music becomes meaningful in film and how this meaning becomes part of child audiences' interpretation of filmic characters. LÄS MER