Sökning: "biography and theory"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 26 avhandlingar innehållade orden biography and theory.

  1. 1. Text och tolkning i svenska författarbiografier : Elin Wägners Selma Lagerlöf, Elisabeth Tykessons Atterbom och Fredrik Bööks Verner von Heidenstam

    Författare :Inger Larsson; Lunds universitets bibliotek; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; history of Swedish literary biography; Keywords: Literary biography; Swedish 20th century biography; Ira B. Nadel; Leon Edel; General and comparative literature; literature criticism; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; literary theory; biography and theory; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori; Scandinavian languages and literature; Nordiska språk språk och litteratur ;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of the present thesis is twofold: to examine literary biography as literary text and, on the basis of my findings, to adopt a reasonable perspective on the theoretical debate about the fictionality of such biographies. In my introduction I trace the theoretical developments underlying this metaperspective and supply with an historical survey of literary biography as practised in Sweden. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Faces of Thoreau in American Literature

    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;

    Sammanfattning : 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

  4. 3. Gustafs ansigter : selvfremstilling i Gustaf Munch-Petersens forfatterskab

    Författare :Martine Cardel Gertsen; Litteraturvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; litteraturteori; litteraturkritik; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; contexts and interpretation; biography and poetry; self-representation; primitivism; identity; mystical and religious imagery; surrealism; Nietzsche; vitalism; General and comparative literature; literary theory; literature criticism; Scandinavian languages and literature; Nordiska språk språk och litteratur ;

    Sammanfattning : The Danish-Swedish writer Gustaf Munch-Petersen (1912-1938) is considered one of the pioneers of Danish modernist poetry. His death at the age of 26 as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, a conflict that was later widely understood as a prelude to the Second World War, made him one of “the young dead” of Scandinavian literature. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Emily Dickinson : A study of the production of an author

    Författare :Lena Christensen; Engelska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; General and comparative literature; editorial theory; electronic archives; biography; textual criticism; American poetry; American literary history; Emily Dickinson; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

    Sammanfattning : Since they were first published in the 1890's Emily Dickinson's (1830-1886) poems have elicited queries regarding the proprieties of editing. This dissertation considers processes through which Dickinson's work has been edited in the twentieth century and how such editorial processes contribute specifically to the production of Emily Dickinson as author. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Mind the Mind : Strategic Communication in the Swedish Green Party

    Författare :Emma Svensson; Jakob Svensson; Mats Edenius; Eli Skogerbø; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Strategic Communication; Strategic Political Communication; Election Campaigns; Practice Theory; Strategy as Practice; Objective Mind; Biography; Positioning; Tensions; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Media and Communication Studies;

    Sammanfattning : An increasingly complex environment and pressure from external publics on organizations to speak consistently challenge contemporary organizations. Strategic communication has been portrayed as offering a method for organizations to handle these complexities and is characterized not only as a rational way to handle problems organization face by centralizing, planning, and controlling, but as inevitable. LÄS MER