Sökning: "Atwood"

Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Atwood.

1. 1. Watching women, falling women : Power and dialogue in three novels by Margaret Atwood

   Författare :Katarina Gregersdotter; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Atwood; cyborg; dialogics; dualism; falling; femininity; feminism; friendship; gender studies; literature analysis; mobility; place; power; storytelling; watching; water; women;

   Sammanfattning : 　This study examines the three novelsCat s Eye, The Robber Bride, and Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. It focuses on the female characters and their relationships to each other: Their friendships are formed in a patriarchally structured environment and are therefore arenas for defending and controlling the norms of such a structure. LÄS MER

3. 2. Appropriations of Shakespeare's King Lear in Three Modern North American Novels

   Författare :Anna Lindhé; Engelska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Appropriation in literature; appropriation of Shakespeare; ethics and literature; Harold Bloom; Jane Smiley; Anne Tyler; Margaret Atwood; A Thousand Acres; Ladder of Years; Cat s Eye; King Lear;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the creative appropriation of Shakespeare in theory and practice. It is based on close readings of King Lear alongside three appropriations of the play in works of fiction by three North American women writers: Jane Smiley, Anne Tyler, and Margaret Atwood. The aim is to demonstrate how a ‘palimpsestic’ reading, i.e. LÄS MER

4. 3. Margaret Atwood's Environmentalism : Apocalypse and Satire in the MaddAddam Trilogy

   Författare :Marinette Grimbeek; Maria Holmgren Troy; Magnus Ullén; Sylvia Mayer; Örebro universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Margaret Atwood; MaddAddam Trilogy; environmentalism; apocalypse; satire; celebrity activism; metalepsis; commodity aesthetics; storytelling; English; Engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This study considers the way in which Margaret Atwood’s post-apocalyptic MaddAddam Trilogy functions as an environmental project. The main focus is on how the three novels, Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013), simultaneously draw on and destabilise the apocalypticism inherent in so much environmental discourse, primarily through the use of satire. LÄS MER

5. 4. A World of Myths : World Literature and Storytelling in Canongate's Myths series

   Författare :Malin Nauwerck; Johan Professor; Paula Docent; Torbjörn Forslid; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sociology of Literature; World Literature; Book History; Publishing Studies; Sociology of Translation; Marketing; Storytelling; Book Trade; Metafiction; 21st Century; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis discusses contemporary publishing within the global, literary system through the prism of the transnational publishing project the Myths series, initiated by Scottish publishing house Canongate Books in 2005. By combining the perspectives of world literature studies and sociology of literature, I explore the conception, development and communication around the Myths series (today published in forty countries) in relation firstly to the contemporary changes in the publishing industry, situated within a more general literary debate on globalisation and cultural diversity and secondly the rise of a social order epitomised under the umbrella term “new economy”, in which the practice of strategic communication or marketing storytelling has become increasingly common. LÄS MER