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Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden Danuta Fjellestad.
6. Enchanting Irruptions : Wonder, Noir, and the Environmental Imaginary
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates narratives of re-enchantment and disenchantment in three contemporary U.S. novels, Lydia Millet’s Mermaids in Paradise, Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange, and Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice. LÄS MER
7. From Frontline to Homefront : The Global Homeland in Contemporary U.S. War Fiction
Sammanfattning : Criticized for providing a simplified depiction of a post-9/11 United States, contemporary American “War on Terror” fiction has been largely neglected by critical discourse. In this dissertation, I argue that this fiction offers a vital engagement with how the War on Terror is waged, and how the fantasies and policies of the Global Homeland inform it. LÄS MER
8. Immanence and transcendence in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon : a phenomenological study
Sammanfattning : The investigation studies Thomas Pynchon’s givenness in terms of three strata of manifestation: the arty, the rhizomatic, and the acosmic.Utilizing a new affective turn implemented within the phenomenological movement by Michel Henry, the study proposes that alongside a rhizomatic mode of accessibility promoting transcendence, investigates the manifestation of this ontological withholding by carrying out the phenomenological reduction established by Edmund Husserl, and by elucidating the phenomenon of immanence in the literary text by means of a theory of auto-affection rooted in—but not reducible to—such methodological reduction. LÄS MER
9. Taken by Stealth : Everyday Life and Political Change in John Dos Passos's U.S.A. Trilogy
Sammanfattning : John Dos Passos’s U.S.A. trilogy (1938) tells the story of an erosion of American values and ideals – an ideological shift – during the first three decades of the twentieth century. LÄS MER
10. On the Boundaries of Watchmen : Paratextual Narratives across Media
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is an intervention into the ongoing revisions of Gerard Genette’s concept of paratexts. Increasingly used in discussions of artifacts other than the literary novels that were Genette’s object of attention, the concept of paratexts has given rise to intense debates regarding the nature and functions of paratextual elements across media. LÄS MER
