Sökning: "chronotope"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade ordet chronotope.
6. John Cowper Powys: Displacements of Voice and Genre
Sammanfattning : This study is based on dialogic readings of two of John Cowper Powys´s major novels, A Glastonbury Romance and Porius. The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate the interrelationship in the examined texts between the chain of narrative displacements and the frequent changes of voice and genre. LÄS MER
7. Sentieri e radure : Le forme del cronotopo d'iniziazione in Alessandro Baricco
Sammanfattning : The purpose of the present dissertation is to study the elaborations of the initiation myth in contemporary Italian author Alessandro Baricco. The theoretical and methodological framework consists mainly of Mircea Eliade’s phenomenological theory of initiation. LÄS MER
8. In the first person and in the house : The house chronotope in four works by American women writers
Sammanfattning : The house looms large in American literature and plays a significant part in American society and history. This study uses Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope to examine the house in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons (1862), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979), and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping (1980). LÄS MER
9. Förkroppsligad fiktion och fiktionaliserade kroppar : Levande rollspel i Östersjöregionen
Sammanfattning : This dissertation concerns live action role-playing (larp). Larp may be described as improvised theater without an audience, as participants simultaneously embody both audience and actor in their constant interaction with one another. Hence, larp can be seen as a participatory culture. LÄS MER
10. Hemsökt barndom : Bilder av barnet i gotisk barnlitteratur
Sammanfattning : The 21st century has seen an increase in the publication of Gothic literature for children and young adults. The aim of this study is to explore this development and to discuss images of the child in Scandinavian Gothic fiction for children in relation to ideas about childhood in a contemporary context. LÄS MER