Sökning: "Canadian literature"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 15 avhandlingar innehållade orden Canadian literature.

1. 1. The Constitution of Movement in Rudy Wiebe's Fiction : A Phenomenological Study of Three Mennonite Novels

   Författare :Malin E. Sigvardson; Harald Fawkner; Magdalene Redekop; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Rudy Wiebe; movement; kinesis; kinaesthesia; directedness; phenomenology; Christianity; Edmund Husserl; Canadian literature; Mennonites; faith; regeneration; eschatology; Peace Shall Destroy Many ; The Blue Mountains of China ; Sweeter Than All the World ; work; migration; corporeality; immobilization; focalization; homelessness; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This study investigates movement as a phenomenon of constituting directedness in the Canadian writer Rudy Wiebe’s Mennonite novels. In Peace Shall Destroy Many (1962), in The Blue Mountains of China (1970), and in Sweeter Than All the World (2001), the phenomenon of movement is complexly at work as a decisive factor on numerous levels of constitution. LÄS MER

3. 2. Identity through the other : Canadian adventure romance for adolescents

   Författare :Clarence Larsson; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Adventure romance; quest for identity; unit of the monomyth; Canadian North; polarized worlds; myths; first and second-order system; psychological discourse; cultural critique; vicarious rite of passage; Hughes; Monica Hughes; Houston; James Houston; Markoosie; Kanadensisk barn- och ungdomslitteratur; Kanadensiska äventyrsromaner; historia;

   Sammanfattning : This study of Canadian adventure romance for adolescents seeks to demonstrate the cultural significance of the genre through close readings of James Houston's Frozen Fire and The White Archer, Monica Hughes's Hunter in the Dark and Ring-Rise, Ring-Set, as well as Markoosie's Harpoon of the Hunter. By means of a semiotic-structuralist approach I examine the texts as a signifying system conveying discourses that constitute a code of connection to the social context of contemporary young-adult readers. LÄS MER

4. 3. From Colonial Expression to Export Commodity : English-Canadian Literature in Canada and Sweden 1945–1999

   Författare :Katarina Leandoer; David Staines; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation follows the trajectory of English-Canadian literature in post-WWII Canada and Sweden. Taking the 1951 publication of the Massey Report as its starting-point, this study explores a succession of events in Canada after the Second World War, which contributed to creating a fruitful environment for the development of a national literature in English Canada. LÄS MER

5. 4. Global infatuation : Explorations in transnational publishing and texts : the case of Harlequin Enterprises and Sweden

   Författare :Eva Hemmungs Wirtén; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; Sociology of Literature; Transediting; Globalization; Localization; Romances; Category Publishing; Translation Studies; Cultural Studies; Popular Culture; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with the Canadian category publisher Harlequin Enterprises.Operating in a hundred markets and publishing in twenty-four languages around the world,Harlequin Enterprises exemplifies the increasingly transnational character of publishing andthe media. LÄS MER

7. 5. Possibility-Space and Its Imaginative Variations in Alice Munro's Short Stories

   Författare :Ulrica Skagert; Paul Schreiber; Mark Levene; Rosemary Sullivan; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Alice Munro; fate; possibility-space; compellation; phenomenology; Canadian literature; short story; realism; Alain Badiou; Maurice Natanson; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : With its perennial interest in the seemingly ordinary lives of small-town people, Alice Munro’s fiction displays a deceptively simple surface reality that on closer scrutiny reveals intricate levels of unexpected complexity about the fundamentals of human experience: love, choice, mortality, faith and the force of language. This study takes as its main purpose the exploration of Munro’s stories in terms of the intricacy of emotions in the face of commonplace events of life and their emerging possibilities. LÄS MER