Sökning: "canadian fiction"

Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden canadian fiction.

1. 1. Identity through the other : Canadian adventure romance for adolescents

   Författare :Clarence Larsson; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Adventure romance; quest for identity; unit of the monomyth; Canadian North; polarized worlds; myths; first and second-order system; psychological discourse; cultural critique; vicarious rite of passage; Hughes; Monica Hughes; Houston; James Houston; Markoosie; Kanadensisk barn- och ungdomslitteratur; Kanadensiska äventyrsromaner; historia;

   Sammanfattning : This study of Canadian adventure romance for adolescents seeks to demonstrate the cultural significance of the genre through close readings of James Houston's Frozen Fire and The White Archer, Monica Hughes's Hunter in the Dark and Ring-Rise, Ring-Set, as well as Markoosie's Harpoon of the Hunter. By means of a semiotic-structuralist approach I examine the texts as a signifying system conveying discourses that constitute a code of connection to the social context of contemporary young-adult readers. LÄS MER

3. 2. The Constitution of Movement in Rudy Wiebe's Fiction : A Phenomenological Study of Three Mennonite Novels

   Författare :Malin E. Sigvardson; Harald Fawkner; Magdalene Redekop; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Rudy Wiebe; movement; kinesis; kinaesthesia; directedness; phenomenology; Christianity; Edmund Husserl; Canadian literature; Mennonites; faith; regeneration; eschatology; Peace Shall Destroy Many ; The Blue Mountains of China ; Sweeter Than All the World ; work; migration; corporeality; immobilization; focalization; homelessness; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This study investigates movement as a phenomenon of constituting directedness in the Canadian writer Rudy Wiebe’s Mennonite novels. In Peace Shall Destroy Many (1962), in The Blue Mountains of China (1970), and in Sweeter Than All the World (2001), the phenomenon of movement is complexly at work as a decisive factor on numerous levels of constitution. LÄS MER

4. 3. Possibility-Space and Its Imaginative Variations in Alice Munro's Short Stories

   Författare :Ulrica Skagert; Paul Schreiber; Mark Levene; Rosemary Sullivan; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Alice Munro; fate; possibility-space; compellation; phenomenology; Canadian literature; short story; realism; Alain Badiou; Maurice Natanson; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : With its perennial interest in the seemingly ordinary lives of small-town people, Alice Munro’s fiction displays a deceptively simple surface reality that on closer scrutiny reveals intricate levels of unexpected complexity about the fundamentals of human experience: love, choice, mortality, faith and the force of language. This study takes as its main purpose the exploration of Munro’s stories in terms of the intricacy of emotions in the face of commonplace events of life and their emerging possibilities. LÄS MER

5. 4. Pratiques de l'ici, altérité et identité dans six romans québécois des années 1989-2002

   Författare :Svante Lindberg; Maria Walecka-Garbalinska; Margareta Östman; Janet Paterson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pierre Gobeil; Lise Tremblay; Rober Racine; Bertrand Gervais; Pauline Harvey; Wajdi Mouawad; Quebec; Québécois novel; postmodern; postcolonial; practices of Here; the Other; alterity; identity; subjectivity; narrative; internal hermeneutics; space; dysphoria; migration; French language; Franska språket;

   Sammanfattning : Based on an analysis of the roles of alterity and the Other in six Québécois novels published between 1989 and 2002, this study examines how the identity of these first-person narrators is formed through processes of dysphoria, migration and elaborations of mutual space in what will be called practices of Here. The novels can be referred to as texts of the new subjectivité québécoise. LÄS MER