Sökning: "Marxist literary theory"

Hittade 2 avhandlingar innehållade orden Marxist literary theory.

  1. 1. Den moderne Ivar Lo-Johansson: Modernisering, modernitet och modernism i statarromanerna

    Författare :Magnus Nilsson; Litteraturvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literature criticism; General and comparative literature; the grotesque; documentary; polyphony; Arnold Ljungdal; Ture Nerman; the new woman; D. H. Lawrence; Artur Lundkvist; Harry Martinson; primitivism; Raymond Williams; Mikhail Bakhtin; Fredric Jameson; Marxist criticism; avant-garde; social modernism; modernity; modernism; modernisation; Ivar Lo-Johansson; labour movement; socialist realism; Moa Martinson; proletarian literature; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori; Scandinavian languages and literature; Nordiska språk språk och litteratur ; arbetarlitteratur;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the modernity of the Swedish proletarian author Ivar Lo-Johansson (1901-1990), as manifested in the so-called 'statare' novels: Godnatt, jord (Breaking Free, 1933), Bara en mor (Only a Mother, 1939), and Traktorn (1943). The dissertation examines, on the one hand, modernisation and modernity as the topoi of these novels, and on the other, how the author relates to the literary tendency that has come to signify the aesthetic modernisation of the 20th century, i. LÄS MER

  3. 2. INDEBTED BODIES, Debt and Decadence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

    Författare :Signe Leth Gammelgaard; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; New Economic Criticism; debt; Balzac; Trollope; Zola; Huysmans; Wilde; Mirbeau; money; nineteenth-century novel; economy and literature; materialism; Marxist literary theory; semiotics; Saussure; the human body in literature.;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the relationship between linguistic and stylistic innovation in nineteenth-century literature on the one hand and shifts in the dynamics of the economic sign system on the other. It draws on prior work on parallels between language and money and argues specifically that developments in the nineteenth-century novel can be understood in terms of the contemporaneous economic history, and that the two sign systems of language and money display structural similarities in this period. LÄS MER