Sökning: "Central American literature"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 25 avhandlingar innehållade orden Central American literature.

  1. 6. Moderskonflikten i Lars Noréns åttiotalsdramatik

    Författare :Björn Apelkvist; Litteraturvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literary theory; literature criticism; General and comparative literature; Teatervetenskap; Dramatic art; Humaniora; Humanities; Narcissism; Existential Psychology; Rollo May; Family Crisis; Maternal Domination; Swedish Drama; Modern Drama; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori; Scandinavian languages and literature; Nordiska språk språk och litteratur ;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation presents a close study of fourteen central dramas written by the Swedish author Lars Norén (1944-) between 1979 and 1990. The question at issue is the unfinished condition of the relation to the mother, mainly among the grown-up, in most cases middle-aged children portrayed in the plays. LÄS MER

  3. 7. "Take a Taste" : Selling Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales in 1934

    Författare :Moa Matthis; Heidi Hansson; Claire Squires; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; marketability; Book-of-the-Month-Club; consumer culture; commercialism; colonial Kenya; feudal ideal; aristocracy; identity; malleability; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This study explores the marketability of Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales, published in the US in 1934. The term marketability is used to refer to the book as a potentially desirable object for sale on the market, successfully promoted by the Book-of-the-Month-Club whose members were intent on educating themselves and refining their taste. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Time of Turmoil : Reading and Media Combination in the American Young Adult Novels Cathy’s Book, Skeleton Creek, and Endgame

    Författare :Julie Blomberg Gudmundsson; Daniel Kane; Anna Nordlund; Danuta Fjellestad; Astrid Ensslin; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; young adult fiction; reading; media combination; literary competence; reading paths; interrupted reading; media consciousness; multimedia novels; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Curriculum Studies; Didaktik;

    Sammanfattning : In the beginning of the twenty-first century, Young Adult (YA) fiction experienced a renaissance, and YA novels began to appear on the best-seller lists in the US. Around the same time, many reports sounded alarms about rapidly declining rates of fiction reading among young adults. LÄS MER

  5. 9. "Creating the Senses" : Sensation in the work of Shelley Jackson

    Författare :Tove Solander; Maria Lindgren Leavenworth; Gabriele Griffin; Sara Danius; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Shelley Jackson; senses; literary percepts; body art; object art; hypertext; fantastic fiction; minor writing; écriture féminine; queer theory; feminist theory; phenomenology; Gilles Deleuze; engelska; English; Aesthetics; estetik; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This monograph on the œuvre of contemporary American author and multimedia artist Shelley Jackson addresses the question of how literary works employ language to evoke sense impressions. Gilles Deleuze’s notion of aesthetic percepts is drawn on to develop a theory of literary phantom sensations which is then tested on the work of Jackson and related authors. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Interpretive Skepticism : Stanley Cavell, New Criticism, and Literary Interpretation

    Författare :Ingeborg Löfgren; Torsten Pettersson; Patrik Mehrens; Niklas Forsberg; Toril Moi; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; interpretive skepticism; aesthetic skepticism; poetic skepticism; literary interpretation; interpretive theory; skepticism; Stanley Cavell; New Criticism; Cleanth Brooks; Monroe C. Beardsley; fraudulence; modernism; escape to theory; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores and analyzes interpretive skepticism in literary theory. It argues that traditional interpretive theories and debates often harbor unacknowledged forms of skeptical thinking and arguments. As these forms of skepticism are seldom recognized as skepticism, the problem tends to remain hidden and unresolved. LÄS MER