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9153 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Literature.
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Författare :Steven Hartman; Ronald Bosco; State University of New York University at Albany Department of English; []
Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ; Jerome Lawrence 1915-2004 ; Robert E. Lee 1918 -1994 ; Edward Abbey 1927–1989 ; Hayden Carruth 1921–2008 ; Walden; Civil Disobedience; cultural reception; cultural appropriation; literary reenactment; literary activism; intertextuality; iconography; canonization; American literature; reception theory; reader response; nature writing; political writing; literature of protest; cultural critique; biography; hagiography; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Amos Bronson Alcott; William Ellery Channing; James Russell Lowell; Robert Louis Stevenson; Mohandas Gandhi; Henry Salt; English language; Engelska språket; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; engelska; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;
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Doctoral dissertation supervised by Professor Ronald A. Bosco (co-supervised by Professor Judith Johnson and Professor Judith Fetterley), Department of English, University at Albany, State University of New York. LÄS MER
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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;
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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
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Författare :Annika Sylén-Lagerholm; Engelska; []
Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The Cloud of Unknowing; Julian of Norwich; Margery Kempe; Richard Rolle; Walter Hilton; dream visions in literature; mysticism and literature; Thomas Aquinas and literature; Pseudo-Dionysius in England; religion and literature; literature and theology; medieval English poetry; women and medieval literature; Middle English literature; Gawain author; contemplative writers in medieval England; Pearl author; Pearl; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ; General and comparative literature; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;
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This dissertation places Pearl in the context of works by the English fourteenth-century contemplative writers (‘mystics’), as well as of patristic and other theological treatises, focusing on the theme of comprehending and speaking about a transcendent divine dimension. The purpose is to show that Pearl and the works of Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Walter Hilton, Richard Rolle and the author of The Cloud of Unknowing share a concern with attempting to express the inexpressible. LÄS MER
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Författare :Lotta Paulin; Boel Westin; Anders Cullhed; Anna Nordenstam; Stockholms universitet; []
Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; children s literature; history of children s literature; literature for children and young adults; role model; literary didactics; didactics; medieval children s literature; early modern children s literature; literary history; gender; dominance; subject position; empowering; concepts of childhood; childhood; exempla; litteraturvetenskap; Literature;
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This thesis investigates the construction of role models, more specifically literary didactics and constructions of subject positions, in literary works with exemplary stories in Swedish 1400–1750, from the perspective of literature for children and young adults.Childhood concepts, didactic concepts and subject positions presented to the reader are analyzed from the point of view of dominance and dissonance between different characters and messages. LÄS MER
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Författare :Nicolas Manuguerra; Christina Kullberg; Edward Nye; Tim Farrant; Uppsala universitet; []
Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; French literature; theatre; theatre studies; 19th century; drama; romantic drama; romanticism; space; spatiotemporality; para-espaces; threshold; permeability; transition; mediation; stage; offstage; windows; doors; staircase; stairs; balcony; Littérature française; théâtre; dix-neuvième siècle; romantisme; drame; drame romantique; espace; seuil; spatiotemporalité; para-espaces; passage; médiation; transition; frontière; limite; perméabilité; contaminations; scène; hors-scène; teichoscopie; portes; fenêtres; balcons; escaliers; Victor Hugo; Alexandre Dumas; Eugène Scribe; Casimir Delavigne; Jacques Ancelot; René-Charles Guilbert de Pixerécourt; Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois; Frédéric Soulié; Alfred de Vigny; Alfred de Musset; Victor Ducange; Felix Pyat; Auguste Luchet.; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Romance Languages; Romanska språk;
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This thesis deals with the functions of prevalent threshold-like spaces such as windows, stairs, doors or balconies in theatre plays from the height of the Romantic era in France (1828-1835). The study coins the concept of « para-espaces » (para-spaces) and elucidates the way they mediate between different divisions of the spatiotemporal structure of a play. LÄS MER
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