Sökning: "simile"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade ordet simile.

  1. 1. Nollpunkten : Precisionens betydelse hos Witold Gombrowicz, Inger Christensen och Herta Müller

    Författare :Gabriel Itkes-Sznap; Aris Fioretos; Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback; Ingrid Nielsen; Södertörns högskola; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Precision; literature; counting; phenomenology; nihilism; sensibility; meaning; antinomy; chiasm; simile; equation; Witold Gombrowicz; Inger Christensen; Herta Müller; Paul Celan; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines precision as an aesthetic concept and practice in texts by Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969), Inger Christensen (1935–2009) and Herta Müller (1953–). Although often referred to in contemporary criticism as a marker of aesthetic value, precision in literature has rarely been the subject of academic study. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Grapes in the Desert : Metaphors, Models, and Themes in Hosea 4-14

    Författare :Göran Eidevall; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Hebrew Bible; Bibelvetenskap; Bible; reversal; personification; imagery; simile; theme; model; metaphor theory; metaphor; prophetical literature; Hosea; Old Testament; Old Testament exegesis; Gamla testamentets exegetik;

    Sammanfattning : This study explores the textual world of Hosea 4-14. To this end it uses a melhod informed by modern metaphor theory. At the outset, the hypothesis that chapters 4-14 in the book of Hosea constitute a coherent literary composition is submitted. The perspectival theory advanced by Eva F. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Metaphors Cicero lived by : The Role of Metaphor and Simile in De senectute

    Författare :Aron Sjöblad; Latin; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Latin; Lakoff; Cicero; Johnson; ‘On Old Age’; Metaphor; De senectute; Kövecses;

    Sammanfattning : Abstract This dissertation examines the function of metaphor and simile in Cicero’s dialogue De senectute. For this purpose, it employs Lakoff-Johnsonian metaphor theory and compares the metaphorical concepts that the scholars of that tradition have found in English with the metaphors found in Cicero’s text. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Ideology and Symbolism in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy

    Författare :Fredrik Svensson; Magnus Ullén; Maria Holmgren Troy; Nicholas Monk; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cormac McCarthy; Pierre Macherey; Marxism; ideology; affordances; symbolism; ecocriticism; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This study homes in on the ideological significance of American author Cormac McCarthy’s literary symbolism. Focusing in particular on the author’s tendency to merge hu­manity and the environment by way of metaphor, simile, and personifica­tion, the study demonstrates how the ethical and political import of this aesthetic is open to dispute. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Zur Bedeutung des Vergleichs in Eichendorffs Erzählwerk : "...ihm war, als spiegelte sich wunderbar sein Leben wie ein Traum noch einmal wieder"

    Författare :Ragni Behrens; Helmut Müssener; Stefan Nienhaus; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Eichendorff; Eichendorff’s narrative work; similes; types of similes; classical similes; non-classical types of similes; if- as if-similes; adverbial similes; subject-related similes; proprium; improprium; image giver; image receiver; tropes; antique rhetoric; Middle High German epic poem; Romanticism; functions of similes; pictures in motion; sounding motion; formula; formulaic manner; synaesthesia; formulas; intertextuality; German language; Tyska språket;

    Sammanfattning : The present dissertation investigates similes and their importance in Eichendorff’s narrative work. The sources of the investigation consist of seven of Eichendorff’s narratives. Their 734 similes make up the corpus, which is presented in its entirety in the appendix. The context of the similes is partly included as well. LÄS MER