Sökning: "modernist fiction"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden modernist fiction.
1. Silent Modernism : Soundscapes and the Unsayable in Richardson, Joyce, and Woolf
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines silence in modernist fiction, explaining how it forms a central aspect of realism in the modernist novel. It is based on close readings of the form and function of silence in the works of Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. LÄS MER
2. "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
3. The Nothing That Is : The Structure of Consciousness in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens
Sammanfattning : This is a study of the poetry of the American writer Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). Stevens’ poetry is often concerned with the relation between consciousness and world, the perceiver and the perceived. This dissertation takes the investigation of the very “structure” or “pattern” of consciousness as its main purpose. LÄS MER
4. Den moderne Ivar Lo-Johansson: Modernisering, modernitet och modernism i statarromanerna
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the modernity of the Swedish proletarian author Ivar Lo-Johansson (1901-1990), as manifested in the so-called 'statare' novels: Godnatt, jord (Breaking Free, 1933), Bara en mor (Only a Mother, 1939), and Traktorn (1943). The dissertation examines, on the one hand, modernisation and modernity as the topoi of these novels, and on the other, how the author relates to the literary tendency that has come to signify the aesthetic modernisation of the 20th century, i. LÄS MER
5. Intimacies : Ethics and Aesthetics in Virginia Woolf's Writing
Sammanfattning : This study investigates Virginia Woolf’s configurations of intimacy in her experimental inter-war novels Jacob’s Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves. It focuses on the ethical and political positioning enabled by Woolf’s aesthetic delineation of moments of interiority in which distinctions between self and other are suspended. LÄS MER