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Visar resultat 31 - 35 av 9281 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Literature.
31. “Closed Place, Open Word” : Reading the Postplantation in Earl Lovelace, Milton Murayama, and Ntozake Shange
Sammanfattning : This dissertation focuses on three authors who came of age in the 1980s, Earl Lovelace, Milton Murayama, and Ntozake Shange, reading their novels set respectively on Trinidad, Hawai‘i, and the Sea Islands, as postplantation expressions. My definition of the postplantation builds upon the work of Édouard Glissant, especially “Closed Place, Open Word” where he delineates three phases in literary production from the Plantation: the first is chiefly oral and appears as an “act of survival,” the second is an attempt to justify the Plantation system and is marked by “delusion,” and the third phase is written by descendants of the Plantation in a “passion of memory. LÄS MER
32. A World of Myths : World Literature and Storytelling in Canongate's Myths series
Sammanfattning : This thesis discusses contemporary publishing within the global, literary system through the prism of the transnational publishing project the Myths series, initiated by Scottish publishing house Canongate Books in 2005. By combining the perspectives of world literature studies and sociology of literature, I explore the conception, development and communication around the Myths series (today published in forty countries) in relation firstly to the contemporary changes in the publishing industry, situated within a more general literary debate on globalisation and cultural diversity and secondly the rise of a social order epitomised under the umbrella term “new economy”, in which the practice of strategic communication or marketing storytelling has become increasingly common. LÄS MER
33. När realismen blir orealistisk : Litteraturens "sanna historier" och unga läsares tolkningsstrategier
Sammanfattning : This thesis discusses challenges to teaching and learning literature arising from young upper secondary school students’ interest in and reading of contemporary literature with truth claims. The main starting-point is that something central happens to text interpretation since visual media are taking control of the understanding of the realism concept. LÄS MER
34. Mångtydigheternas klarhet. Om ironier hos Torgny Lindgren från Skolbagateller till Hummelhonung
Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses the work of the Swedish author, Torgny Lindgren (born 1938). Its main focus lies on the all-pervading irony in his work. The use of irony is seen as a unifying trait in Lindgren’s authorship. LÄS MER
35. Till det omöjligas konst bekänner jag mig, Gunnar Ekelöfs konstsyn : Relationen mellan litteratur och bildkonst i kommenterande texter och lyrisk praktik
Sammanfattning : This thesis, “To the art of the impossible I profess myself” Gunnar Ekelöf’s View of the Fine Arts. The Relationship between Literature and the Visual Arts in Commenting Texts and Lyrical Practice, looks into Ekelöf’s view of the fine arts in commenting texts such as literary and art criticism, essays, notebooks and letters. LÄS MER
