Sökning: "Exile and literature"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 23 avhandlingar innehållade orden Exile and literature.

  1. 1. Displaced Literature : Images of Time and Space in Latvian Novels Depicting the First Years of the Latvian Postwar Exile

    Författare :Juris Rozītis; Prof. Baiba Kangere; Prof. Vieda Skultans; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bakhtin; chronotope; Displaced Person; émigré; exile; immigrant literature; Latvia; Latvian literature; Latvian history; life-story; narrative; novel; postwar Germany; refugee; setting; space; time; time-space; UNRRA; WWII; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : In the years immediately following the Second World War, the main part of Latvian literature was produced by writers living outside Latvia. To this day Latvian literature continues to be written outside Latvia, albeit to a much smaller extent. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Tidens tröskel : Uppbrott och nostalgi i skandinavisk litteratur kring sekelskiftet 1900

    Författare :Anna Jörngården; Anders Olsson; Anna Williams; Arne Melberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Keywords: fin de siècle; nostalgia; modernity; modernism; memory; time and space in literature; gender; travel; exile; identity and psychology; emotions; Ola Hansson; August Strindberg; Knut Hamsun; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This study illuminates Scandinavian literature’s engagement with the fin de siècle as a momentous temporal threshold, when the widespread feeling of being poised on the brink of a distinctly modern age while at the same time witnessing the demise of the old world produced excitement as well as anxiety, a sense of loss and nostalgia. The dissertation explores how three male authors of the Scandinavian canon – Ola Hansson, August Strindberg and Knut Hamsun – depict the ambivalent experience of being torn between nostalgia and a heady sense of departure. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Mellan dröm och verklighet : Skildringar av tid, trauma och sexualitet i Antanas Škėmas novellistiska prosa

    Författare :Victoria Carlemalm; Roland Lysell; Baiba Kangere; Cecilia Sjöholm; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Lithuanian Literature; fiction; Antanas Škėma; Isaac; Genette; narratology; temporal order; Freud; trauma theory; sexual theory; trauma; sexuality; perversion; exile; censorship; Baltic languages; Baltiska språk; baltiska språk; Baltic Languages;

    Sammanfattning : The subject of this dissertation is the representation of temporality, trauma and sexuality in Antanas Škėma’s fiction. The chapter “Temporal structures” examines temporal order in the writer’s novella “Isaac” according to Genettes narratology. LÄS MER

  4. 4. The Double Aspect : Gerald Murnane's Visual Poetics

    Författare :Piia K Posti; Ishrat Lindblad; Martin Leer; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Australian twentieth-century fiction; the double aspect; Cartesian perspectivalism ; vision; visuality; visual poetics; exile; landscape; woman; gaze; Gerald Murnane; English literature; Engelsk litteratur; Comparative literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

    Sammanfattning : With its abundance of maps, place names, and landscapes, and with titles like Inland and Landscape with Landscape, Gerald Murnane's fiction exemplifies the dominance of land in Australian literature. Yet, Murnane's fiction differs from most "landscape fiction" in that it depicts an Australia that despite its history of exploration has not yet been fully discovered. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Passage to a new wor(l)d : Exile and restoration in Mahmoud Darwish's writings 1960-1995

    Författare :Anette Månsson; Bo Isaksson; Witold Witakowski; Tetz Rooke; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arabic language; Mahmoud Darwish; Palestinian literature; Exile and literature; Biblical motives in literature; Rite of passage; Arabiska; Arabic language; Arabiska; semitiska språk; Semitic Languages;

    Sammanfattning : This study focuses on developments of the exile motive in the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s writings 1960-1995. The sources consist primarily of Darwish’s diwans of poetry and articles published in literary magazines. LÄS MER