Sökning: "life-writing"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade ordet life-writing.
1. Black Lives, White Quotation Marks : Textual Constructions of Selfhood in South African Multivoiced Life Writing
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on South African multivoiced and collaborative life writing. The analysed primary texts are The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena (1980) by Elsa Joubert, The Calling of Katie Makanya: A Memoir of South Africa (1995) by Margaret McCord, Finding Mr Madini (1999) by Jonathan Morgan and the Great African Spiderwriters, David’s Story (2000) by Zoë Wicomb, and There Was This Goat: Investigating the Truth Commission Testimony of Notrose Nobomvu Konile (2009), co-written by Antjie Krog, Nosisi Mpolweni and Kopano Ratele. LÄS MER
2. Almost There : Approaches to Closure in the Works of Sylvia Plath
Sammanfattning : This study of Sylvia Plath’s writings investigates aspects of representations of life and life stories. It is composed of three distinct analyses, the shared feature being their focus on the connection between narrative closure and closure in life. LÄS MER
3. Åldrandet och språket : en språkhistorisk analys av hög ålder och åldrande i Sverige cirka 1875–1975
Sammanfattning : This thesis analyses how old age and ageing were manifested and understood in Sweden from approximately 1875 to 1975. It thus aims to provide historical background to current debate about for instance the retirement age and how to best care for the elderly. LÄS MER
4. Every Man His Own Monument : Self-Monumentalizing in Romantic Britain
Sammanfattning : From framing private homes as museums, to sitting for life masks and appointing biographers, new forms of self-monumentalizing emerged in the early nineteenth century. In this study I investigate the emergence and configuration of such practices in Romantic Britain. LÄS MER
5. Depressions-Memoirs : Selbst- und Kulturreflexionen in deutsch- und englischsprachigen autobiographischen Erzählungen des 21. Jahrhunderts
Sammanfattning : My dissertation focuses on the literary genre of Depression Memoirs in the 21st century. Depression Memoirs are autobiographical narratives in which the experience of suffering from a depressive illness is recounted from a hindsight perspective. LÄS MER