Sökning: "Maria Holmgren-Troy"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden Maria Holmgren-Troy.
1. In the first person and in the house : The house chronotope in four works by American women writers
Sammanfattning : The house looms large in American literature and plays a significant part in American society and history. This study uses Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope to examine the house in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons (1862), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979), and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping (1980). LÄS MER
2. Margaret Atwood's Environmentalism : Apocalypse and Satire in the MaddAddam Trilogy
Sammanfattning : This study considers the way in which Margaret Atwood’s post-apocalyptic MaddAddam Trilogy functions as an environmental project. The main focus is on how the three novels, Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013), simultaneously draw on and destabilise the apocalypticism inherent in so much environmental discourse, primarily through the use of satire. LÄS MER
3. Places of Rest in Worlds of Ruin : Havens in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Sammanfattning : In the inhospitable and ruined landscapes of post-apocalyptic fiction there are often found havens, places of rest that provide contrast to the desolation of the wasteland. This study explores the generic functions of such havens. LÄS MER
4. Ideology and Symbolism in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy
Sammanfattning : This study homes in on the ideological significance of American author Cormac McCarthy’s literary symbolism. Focusing in particular on the author’s tendency to merge humanity and the environment by way of metaphor, simile, and personification, the study demonstrates how the ethical and political import of this aesthetic is open to dispute. LÄS MER
5. Hemsökelser : Gotiken i sex berättelser av Selma Lagerlöf
Sammanfattning : The topic of this thesis is the gothic fiction of Selma Lagerlöf. Its primary purpose is to investigate how Lagerlöf's work can be understood in relation to the gothic genre; what particular themes, motifs and formal aspects appear when making this connection and how they can be interpreted, as well as which literary and cultural contexts become relevant. LÄS MER