Sökning: "the Underworld"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden the Underworld.

  1. 1. En möjlig värld: En tematisk studie av Lars Gustafssons 1990-talsromaner

    Författare :Kerstin Bergman; Litteraturvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literary theory; General and comparative literature; Fictional truth; fictional worlds; moral standards; ontology; theodicy; the Deluge; Gnosticism; monism; death; the Underworld; Memory Palaces; Millennial beliefs; Apocalypse; Michael Riffaterre; Anselm of Canterbury; Paul de Man; literature criticism; Ramon Llull; Spinoza.; Nordiska språk språk och litteratur ; Scandinavian languages and literature; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

    Sammanfattning : "En möjlig värld" explores how questions of moral standards and ontology are discussed explores how questions of moral standards and ontology are discussed and represented in three of Lars Gustafsson's novels in a search for a world that is conceivable - in terms of moral philosophy, as well as ontology. Initially, a theoretical foundation is constructed, based on the assumption that fictional texts are linguistic phenomena that mainly refer to the worlds they themselves create. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Sköra subjekt och apofatiska resor : En feministteologisk studie av svensk samtidslitteratur

    Författare :Cecilia Samuelsson; Maria Essunger; Mattias Martinson; Eva Heggestad; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Worldview studies; Worldviews research; Feminist theology; Literary studies; Literary resistance; Interdisciplinary studies; Journey to the underworld; Subject; Subject formations; Nomadic subject; Systematic Theology and Studies in Worldviews; Systematisk teologi med livsåskådningsforskning;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines literary portrayals of existential problems relating to women’s experiences of being denied as subjects, and how literature and writing can offer ways of reflecting upon questions of being a subject and lived forms of resistance. The material consists of six contemporary Swedish novels. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Passion Embracing Death : A reading of Nina Sadur's novel 'The Garden'

    Författare :Karin Sarsenov; Språk- och litteraturcentrum; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ryska språk och litteratur ; Russian language and literature; gendered subjectivity; love incantations; socialist realism; chthonic forces; leitmotif; alcoholic discourse; schizoid discourse; aberrant discourse; Russian women s literature; General and comparative literature; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

    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

  5. 4. Chinatown Film Culture : The Appearance of Cinema in San Francisco’s Chinese Neighborhood, 1906-1915

    Författare :Kim Khavar Fahlstedt; Jan Olsson; Gregory Waller; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Film history; early cinema; local film history; Chinese-American history; transnational cinema; orientalism; urban studies; San Francisco; Chinatown; Sid Grauman; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates film culture in San Francisco's Chinatown between the years 1906 and 1915. While Chinatowns have figured in several studies of representation in classical Hollywood cinema, it has rarely been approached as a place where film culture actually happened. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Att besvärja döden : Död- och återfödelsetematiken i Lars Noréns författarskap 1963-1999

    Författare :Yvonne Blomberg; Tom Hedlund; Per Bäckström; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Lars Norén; modern Swedish literature; thematic method; myth interpretation; chronos; kairos; death and resurrection; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

    Sammanfattning : Lars Norén’s poetical world is filled with the living and the dead, history and memory. This study is the first one of its kind that treats myths and religious ideas in Norén’s works. Its aim is to examine the centre of his oeuvre, namely a striving in the texts to heal disintegration and to beseech death in order to maintain a life process. LÄS MER