Sökning: "Soviet Literature"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 35 avhandlingar innehållade orden Soviet Literature.
6. Phantoms of a Future Past : A Study of Contemporary Russian Anti-Utopian Novels
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to study the evolution of the Russian anti-utopian literary genre in the new post-Soviet environment in the wake of the defunct Soviet socialist utopia. The genre has gained a renewed importance during the 2000s, and has been used variously as a means of dealing satirically with the Soviet past, of understanding the present, and of pondering possible courses into the future for the Russian Federation. LÄS MER
7. "Att skapa en ny värld" : Samhällsyn, kvinnosyn och djuppsykologi hos Karin Boye
Sammanfattning : The Swedish author Karin Boye (1900-1941) has mainly been regarded as preoccupied with private problems and eternal, existential questions. Her writings as well as her life have been interpreted in terms of this preconception. LÄS MER
8. Passion Embracing Death : A reading of Nina Sadur's novel 'The Garden'
Sammanfattning : This doctoral dissertation is an analysis of the novel 'The Garden' (1997), by the Russian author Nina Sadur. Drawing on feminist literary criticism, it aims at providing a woman-authored text with the in-depth study the novel’s literary sophistication calls for. LÄS MER
9. The Burning Word : History and Myth in Maximilian Voloshin's Neopalimaia Kupina
Sammanfattning : The book Neopalimaia Kupina: stikhi o voine i revoliutsii (The Burning Bush: Poems about War and Revolution) by Maximilian Voloshin (1877–1932) depicts the revolutionary period in Russia. This dissertation analyzes the work’s composition, showing how it was shaped and reshaped in response to the dramatic events of the first two and a half decades of the twentieth century, and how it remains open and mirrors the ongoing development of history. LÄS MER
10. The Petersburg Text of Russian Cinema in Perestroika and Post-Perestroika Eras
Sammanfattning : In order to examine contemporary Russian cinema, this thesis has two points of departure: firstly the Petersburg myth, which is here defined as reversible or ambiguous since it includes both an eschatological and a cosmogonic aspect; and secondly, the Petersburg literary text as defined in works by Vladimir Toporov. During the twentieth century, the vitality and actuality of the Petersburg myth was questioned both in literature and in theoretical works. LÄS MER