Sökning: "literary animal studies"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden literary animal studies.
1. A Genre of Animal Hanky Panky? : Animal representations, anthropomorphism and interspecies relations in The Little Golden Books
Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the visual and verbal representations of animals in a selection of commercial picture books for a young readership of preschool children. The picture books selected are part of the Little Golden Book series. LÄS MER
2. ”De gränslösa böckerna” : Allålderslitteratur i Sverige under 1960- och 1970-talen, med studier i Hans Alfredsons och Barbro Lindgrens tidiga författarskap
Sammanfattning : The increasing occurrence of literature for all ages on the Swedish book market during the 1960s and 1970s is in the present dissertation considered a manifestation of a multifaceted striving for equality in the Swedish society during the period. Defined as an artistic ideal-of- all-ages it addressed a ’broad’ audience, in terms of class or age. LÄS MER
3. Aux frontières de l’anthropocentrisme : la présence animale dans les romans de Michel Houellebecq
Sammanfattning : This dissertation sets out to explore the animal presence in the novels of contemporary French writer Michel Houellebecq. Focusing on this often overlooked aspect in the growing number of publications dedicated to Houellebecq’s literary production, this study argues that the presence of animals is central to understanding how his novels are structured around borders between not only animals and humans but also between humans themselves. LÄS MER
4. "Hvad er sannhet?" : Studier i Cora Sandels novellistik
Sammanfattning : This study examines the short fiction of the Norwegian writer Cora Sandel (pseudonym for Sara Fabricius, 1880-1974), primarily the short story collections En blå sofa (A blue sofa, 1927), Carmen og Maja (Carmen and Maja, 1932), Mange takk doktor (Thank you, doctor, 1935), Dyr jeg har kjent (Animals I have known, 1945) and Figurer på mørk bunn (Figures against a dark background, 1949).The first chapter gives an introduction to the short story genre and some of its theories. LÄS MER
5. A Beautiful Failure : The Event of Death and Rhetorical Disorder in the Gospel according to Mark
Sammanfattning : Is there beauty in rhetorical failure? This study is an exploration of disorder and death in the Gospel according to Mark (Mk). With a surviving fragment from the second-century theologian Papias of Hierapolis, the early reception of Mk locates insights into the composition of Jesus’s death, especially through the concepts of ataxia and rhetorical failure. LÄS MER