Sökning: "autobiography"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 48 avhandlingar innehållade ordet autobiography.

1. 21. Depressions-Memoirs : Selbst- und Kulturreflexionen in deutsch- und englischsprachigen autobiographischen Erzählungen des 21. Jahrhunderts

   Författare :Jennifer Kappe; Markus Huss; Ansgar Nünning; Jarmila Mildorf; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; depression memoir; depressive disorder; autobiography; autofiction; narratives; cultural narratology; narrative psychology; authenticity; self-reflection; cultural reflection; counter discourse; knowledge; medical humanities; bibliotherapy; simulation vs. reflection; German; tyska;

   Sammanfattning : My dissertation focuses on the literary genre of Depression Memoirs in the 21st century. Depression Memoirs are autobiographical narratives in which the experience of suffering from a depressive illness is recounted from a hindsight perspective. LÄS MER

3. 22. Multiple Affiliations : Memory and Place in Autobiographical Narratives of Displacement by (Im)migrant US Women

   Författare :Lena Karlsson; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; autobiography; im migration; United States; diaspora; locational feminism; history; memory; place; home displacement; body; postmodern; subjectivity;

   Sammanfattning : Multiple Affiliations explores the autobiographical negotiations of memory and multilocality articulated by five (im)migrant women writers writing from, and being read (primarily) within, the US. Texts as diverse as Korean-American Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée (1982), Polish (Jewish)-American Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation: Life in a New Language (1989), Chinese-American Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976) and China Men (1980), Caribbean/African-American Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982), and Pakistani-American Sara Suleri's Meatless Days (1989) highlight how various (cross-race and transnational) experiences of location, dislocation, and relocation resonate with each other and "immigrant America. LÄS MER

4. 23. Sanna lögner. Carina Rydberg, Stig Larsson och författarens medialisering

   Författare :Christian Lenemark; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literary aestethics; literary theory; literary criticism; media theory; mediatization; Swedish literature in the 1990s and the 2000s; fact and fiction; private and public; the role of the author; media; autobiography; realism; auto fiction; faction; the double contract; performative biografism; gender; literature and ethics; literary debates; the docu-soap; Carina Rydberg; Stig Larsson;

   Sammanfattning : In recent decades, the mass media have come to play an increasingly important role in society and culture. Media of every kind permeate not only our politics but our private lives as well. This development has had a great impact on the position of literature and the role of the author. LÄS MER

5. 24. Mobergland. Personligt och politiskt i Vilhelm Mobergs utvandrarserie

   Författare :Jens Liljestrand; Språk- och litteraturcentrum; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Moberg; Vilhelm 1898-1973 ; autobiography; authorship; Swedish literature; 20th Century; canon literature ; cold war; families; emigrants and immigrants; fiction; immigration; masculinity in literature; neutrality; social criticism;

   Sammanfattning : This is a thesis on the Swedish writer Vilhelm Moberg (1898–1973) and his renowned novel cycle about Swedish emigrants to the U.S.: Utvandrarna (1949), Invandrarna (1952), Nybyggarna (1956) and Sista brevet till Sverige (1959). LÄS MER

7. 25. The Second Journey : Travelling in Literary Footsteps

   Författare :Maria Lindgren; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; travel; travel writing; tourism; guide books; authenticity; intertextuality; influence; recognitions; disappointments; images of home; gender roles; heroism; feminisms; biography; autobiography; museums;

   Sammanfattning : In a time dominated by mass tourism and the search for what has been termed authenticity, travel narratives are again of academic interest. This study seeks to demonstrate how travel writers from the 1980s and 1990s increasingly turn to earlier texts for inspiration and guidance. LÄS MER