Sökning: "English historical fiction"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 17 avhandlingar innehållade orden English historical fiction.

1. 6. From Putsch to Purge. A Study of the German Episodes in Richard Hughes’s The Human Predicament and their Sources

   Författare :Ivo Holmqvist; Engelska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Weimar Republic; Documentary novel; English historical fiction; The Wooden Shepherdess; The Fox in the Attic; 1900-1976; Hughes; Richard; Rise of Nazism; Hitler portraits in literature; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

   Sammanfattning : The two last novels by Richard Hughes (1900-1976), the first in his planned The Human Predicament series, are partly set in Germany in the years between the First and the Second World War. Much of the action in The Fox in the Attic (1961) takes part in and around Munich, culminating in a fictional reconstruction of the so-called Hitler Putsch on November 8-9, 1923, the future dictator's aborted early bid for power. LÄS MER

3. 7. Childhood Without Children : Ian McEwan and the Critical Study of the Child

   Författare :Katherina Dodou; Sara Danius; Jakob Lothe; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; representations of childhood in fiction; Ian McEwan; childhood studies; figuration; the British novel; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This study has a twofold ambition. First, it offers a new perspective on Ian McEwan’s works by focusing on his treatment of childhood. Second, by using McEwan’s writing as an example, it seeks to challenge the current critical preoccupation with childhood in the novel in terms solely of child characters. LÄS MER

4. 8. Knowledge and Survival in the Novels of Thomas Hardy

   Författare :Jane Mattisson; Engelska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Wessex -- Thomas Hardy; rural skills in literature; literature and society -- nineteenth century; epistemology and literature; evolution in literature; Pierre Bourdieu and literature; education in literature; sociolinguistics and literature; sociology and literature; Victorian fiction; Key words: Thomas Hardy; nineteenth-century fiction; history and literature -- nineteenth century; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

   Sammanfattning : Abstract This thesis identifies two different kinds of knowledge in Thomas Hardy's novels: the everyday, passed on from generation to generation, which is non-academic and closely bound to the local environment and its traditions; and the specialised, recorded in the printed word, which is the product of formal education and independent of the local community and its traditions. These two kinds of epistemological competence determine one's ability to adapt and survive in a changing society. LÄS MER

5. 9. Biblical Allusion in Three Charles Dickens Condition-of-England Novels

   Författare :Yuanyuan Zhu; Åke Bergvall; Anna Swärdh; Dominic Rainsford; Karlstads universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; biblical allusion; Charles Dickens; Condition-of-England novels; social critique; satire; Bleak House; Hard Times; Little Dorrit; English; Engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This study investigates how Charles Dickens employs biblical allusion in three Condition-of-England novels: Bleak House (1852–53), Hard Times (1854), and Little Dorrit (1855–57). Drawing on the concepts of dialogism and stratification defined by M. M. Bakhtin and rhetorical situation by Lloyd F. LÄS MER

7. 10. From Colonial Disruption to Diasporic Entanglements : Narrations of Igbo Identities in the Novels of Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chris Abani

   Författare :Snezana Vuletic; Stefan Helgesson; Ansgar Nünning; Susan Arndt; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : With a general interest in Igbo identities, this study critically explores a set of questions which relate to the production, evolution and potential of ‘Igboness’ in literary fiction. The study approaches these questions while relying on two premises. LÄS MER