Sökning: "the function of literature"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 811 avhandlingar innehållade orden the function of literature.

1. 21. En himmel av sten : Willy Kyrklund och det grekiska

   Författare :Thomas Sjösvärd; Björn Sundberg; Roland Lysell; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Willy Kyrklund; antiquity; philology; myth; literary geography; hermeneutics; Adorno; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the notion of the ‘Greek’ in the work of Willy Kyrklund [1921–2009].Kyrklund authorship can be interpreted as a dialogue with the mythology and literature of ancient Greece. LÄS MER

3. 22. Det litterära med reportaget : Om litteraritet som journalistisk strategi och etik

   Författare :Anna Jungstrand; Boel Westin; Anders Olsson; Carin Franzén; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Reportage; Literary Journalism; New Journalism; Literarity; Modernity; Modernism; Ethics; Narratology; Narrativity; Subjectivity; Dorrit Cohn; Emmanuel Levinas; Truman Capote; Ryszard Kapuściński; Hanna Krall; Djuna Barnes; Sven Lindqvist; Joan Didion; Reportage; Litteraritet; Etik; Narratologi; Subjektivitet; Journalistik; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis explores the literarity of reportage, with a focus on the 20th century and modern reportage. The aim is to describe the literary strategies used in modern text-based reportage and how these strategies relate to journalistic standards of credibility and ethics. LÄS MER

4. 23. Den utvidgade människan : Om Eyvind Johnsons Krilontrilogi

   Författare :Per Anders Wiktorsson; Ulf Olsson; Claes Ahlund; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; World War II; neutrality; discourse; Swedish history; restrictions on freedom of speech and press; Eyvind Johnson; modernism; parody; allegory; personification; puns; gender; reading practices; truth-telling; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; History of Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to understand the relation between a given literary work and the specific historical conditions under which it was written. Here, the conditions are those generated by World War II, the threats of Nazism, and the neutrality of Sweden, materialized as restrictions on the freedom of speech and press in Sweden during the war. LÄS MER

5. 24. Konsten att avstå : Framställningar av åldrande och visdom i västeuropeisk litteratur från Cicero till Fredrika Bremer

   Författare :Pär Alexandersson; Bengt Landgren; Merete Mazzarella; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning :   This study discusses the tradition of ideal ageing, which emphasizes life-long virtue as an avenue to wisdom. In line with this tradition the senior members of society have been expected to take charge of and to organize their withdrawal from their social engagements, make themselves available to the younger generations needs without (openly) wanting to control them, and impart traditions without insisting that everything remain unchanged. LÄS MER

7. 25. Besvärja världen : En ekopoetisk studie i Inger Christensens alfabet

   Författare :Sofia Roberg; Axel Englund; Elisabeth Friis; Lilian Munk Rösing; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ecocriticism; ecopoetics; ecopoetry; Inger Christensen; biosemiotics; Ida Börjel; Juliana Spahr; Timothy Morton; Elizabeth Grosz; Maurice Merleau-Ponty; Novalis; Scott Knickerbocker; organic formalism; environmental humanities; postcritique; new materialism; nuclear criticism; Inger Christensen; ekopoesi; ekopoetik; ekokritik; biosemiotic; Ida Börjel; Juliana Spahr; Agnar Lirhus; nymaterialism; Timothy Morton; Elizabeth Grosz; miljöhumaniora; Maurice-Merleau Ponty; organisk formalism; postkritik; Novalis; litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation centres on the long poem alfabet by Danish poet Inger Christensen. Dealing with the threat of nuclear disaster as well as the risk of chemical contamination, this poem has often been quoted as a precursor to the wave of ecopoetry in the Scandinavian literature of the 2010s. LÄS MER