Sökning: "contemporary English literature"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 70 avhandlingar innehållade orden contemporary English literature.

1. 1. Pearl and Contemplative Writing

   Författare :Annika Sylén-Lagerholm; Engelska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The Cloud of Unknowing; Julian of Norwich; Margery Kempe; Richard Rolle; Walter Hilton; dream visions in literature; mysticism and literature; Thomas Aquinas and literature; Pseudo-Dionysius in England; religion and literature; literature and theology; medieval English poetry; women and medieval literature; Middle English literature; Gawain author; contemplative writers in medieval England; Pearl author; Pearl; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ; General and comparative literature; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation places Pearl in the context of works by the English fourteenth-century contemplative writers (‘mystics’), as well as of patristic and other theological treatises, focusing on the theme of comprehending and speaking about a transcendent divine dimension. The purpose is to show that Pearl and the works of Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Walter Hilton, Richard Rolle and the author of The Cloud of Unknowing share a concern with attempting to express the inexpressible. LÄS MER

3. 2. “The Pathos of Past Time” : Nostalgia in Anglo-Arab Literature

   Författare :Tasnim Qutait; Robert Appelbaum; Gail Ramsay; Ashleigh Harris; Waïl Hassan; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Anglophone Arab literature; Arabic literature; nostalgia; diaspora; postcolonialism; memory studies; عربٌ يكتبون بالإنجليزية، الأدب العربي، الحنين، المنفى، ما بعد الاستعمارية، دراسات الذاكرة; English; Engelska; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Semitic Languages; Semitiska språk;

   Sammanfattning : This study explores the theme of nostalgia in contemporary Anglo-Arab literature from the 1990s to the present. Examining the implications of nostalgic tropes in Anglophone novels by Arab writers, the study makes the case that nostalgia is a key strategy used by these writers in their critical engagement with national historiographies and diasporic identities. LÄS MER

4. 3. Epistolarity in a Post-Letter World : Five Contemporary American Case Studies

   Författare :Sindija Franzetti; Sofia Ahlberg; Silvia Schultermandl; Maria Löschnigg; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; the motif of epistolarity; post-letter world; interpersonal communication; epistolary distance; epistolary space; contemporary American literature; Nick Bantock; Gordon Lish; Mark Dunn; Marilynne Robinson; Louise Erdrich; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; Engelska;

   Sammanfattning : The rapid development of digital communication technologies over the past three decades has given rise to faster and more immediate forms of interpersonal communication, which, in turn, have brought an experience of reduced spatiotemporal distance between correspondents. Alongside these developments, epistolarity has made a powerful return in contemporary literature; a trend that has scholars of the form calling for new approaches. LÄS MER

5. 4. “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

7. 5. “Closed Place, Open Word” : Reading the Postplantation in Earl Lovelace, Milton Murayama, and Ntozake Shange

   Författare :Sally Anderson Boström; Michael Boyden; Christina Kullberg; Mads Rosendahl Thomsen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; postplantation; island literature; plantation literature; Creole languages; syncretic culture; island studies; Earl Lovelace; Milton Murayama; Ntozake Shange; Édouard Glissant; English; Engelska; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation focuses on three authors who came of age in the 1980s, Earl Lovelace, Milton Murayama, and Ntozake Shange, reading their novels set respectively on Trinidad, Hawai‘i, and the Sea Islands, as postplantation expressions. My definition of the postplantation builds upon the work of Édouard Glissant, especially “Closed Place, Open Word” where he delineates three phases in literary production from the Plantation: the first is chiefly oral and appears as an “act of survival,” the second is an attempt to justify the Plantation system and is marked by “delusion,” and the third phase is written by descendants of the Plantation in a “passion of memory. LÄS MER