Sökning: "Wijkmark"

Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Wijkmark.

1. 1. “One of the Most Intensely Exciting Secrets” : The Antarctic in American Literature, 1820-1849

   Författare :Johan Wijkmark; Åke Bergvall; Mark Troy; Orm Øverland; Karlstads universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Adam Seaborn; Symzonia; James Fenimore Cooper; Monikins; Sea Lions; Edgar Allan Poe; “MS. Found in a Bottle; ” Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym; Peter Prospero; “The Atlantis; ” Antarctic literature; 19th-century American literature; utopia; Symmes; hollow earth; evolution; great chain of being; race; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; Engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This study examines a small body of 19th-century American literature about the Antarctic: Adam Seaborn's (pseud.) Symzonia (1820), Edgar Allan Poe's "MS. Found in a Bottle" (1833) and The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), Peter Prospero's (pseud. LÄS MER

3. 2. Hemsökelser : Gotiken i sex berättelser av Selma Lagerlöf

   Författare :Sofia Wijkmark; Yvonne Leffler; Maria Holmgren-Troy; Birhte Sjöberg; Karlstads universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Selma Lagerlöf; the Gothic; Fin-de-siècle; the Uncanny; the Fantastic; the Double; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Comparative Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   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

4. 3. A Rhetoric of Ambivalence : The Memory World of the Nazi Perpetrator in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones

   Författare :Alexander Kofod-Jensen; Sofia Wijkmark; Jonas Ingvarsson; Karlstads universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literature; ambivalence; memory; history; World War II; Nazism; Comparative Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : In Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones (Les Bienveillantes, 2006), a discrepancy is found between the historical account and the personal story, indicating the major ambivalence that arises from the creation of a historical world (noesis) as opposed to a fictional world (poiesis). This major ambivalence is connected to a range of minor ambivalences (and other elements of uncertainty) that are related to the novel’s treatment of the historical period of World War II in ways that unsettle and defamiliarize the typical standards of Holocaust representations. LÄS MER

5. 4. Vid pornografins gräns : Erotik i svensk prosa 1819–2019

   Författare :Anna Hultman; Litteraturvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; svensk 1800-talslitteratur; svensk 1900-talslitteratur; Almqvist; erotisk litteratur; Folkhammar; sexualitetens historia; Krusenstjerna; Leffler; legitimering; litteraturhistoria; pornografi; prosa; provokation; sexuella representationer; Sverige; överträdelse; Wijkmark; Österlund; 19th Century Swedish Literature; 20th Century Swedish Literature; Almqvist; Erotic Literature; Folkhammar; History of Sexuality; Krusenstjerna; Leffler; Legitimization; Literary History; Pornography; Prose; Provocation; Sexual Representations; Sweden; Transgression; Wijkmark; Österlund;

   Sammanfattning : Transgressive sexual representations have long been a point of contention in Western societies. While some representations are easily disregarded as obscene, pornographic, smut, worthless or uninteresting, others disrupt established categorizations and are subject to heated debates. LÄS MER

7. 5. Litterära besvär : skildringar av sjukdom i samtida svensk prosa

   Författare :Katarina Bernhardsson; Litteraturvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Carl-Henning Wijkmark.; Anders Paulrud; Sara Mannheimer; Torgny Lindgren; thematic studies; Illness in literature; Literature and Medicine; Medical Humanities; Swedish literature; 21st century literature; Per Olov Enquist; Maria Fagerberg; Åsa Ericsdotter;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies the theme of illness in Swedish fiction from the first decade of the 21st century. The aim is to present a wide-ranging discussion about illness as a contemporary literary theme. LÄS MER