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544 avhandlingar innehållade orden Modern Literature.
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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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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 :Niklas Salmose; Randall Stevenson; Laura Marcus; Patricia Waugh; UK The University of Edinburgh; []
Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nostalgia; Modernism; Literature; Aesthetics; Style; Narratology; Emotions; Nostalgi; Modernism; Litteratur; Estetik; Stilistik; Narratologi; Känslor; English literature; Engelska med litteraturvetenskaplig inriktning;
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In recent years there has been a body of studies relating nostalgia and fiction in political, sociological, feminist, or historical ways. This thesis, instead, sets out to perform an unusual textual study of nostalgia in modern fiction in order to work towards a poetics of nostalgia. LÄS MER
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Författare :Nicklas Hållen; Heidi Hansson; Stefan Helgesson; Tim Youngs; Umeå universitet; []
Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; travel literature; Africa; modernity; materiality; material objects; things; commodity form; commodity culture; postcolonialism; Homi Bhabha; museums; exhibitions; colonialism; geography; space; trade; ethnography; the book; ambivalence; subject-object relations; fetishism; John Speke; Verney Cameron; Henry Stanley; Mary Kingsley; Ewart Grogan; Constance Larymore; Mary Hall; English language; Engelska språket; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Comparative literature; Historia;
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This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. 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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