Sökning: "contemporary literature"

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  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. A Children’s Literature? : Subversive Infantilisation in Contemporary Bosnian-Herzegovinian Fiction

    Författare :Fedja Borčak; Jørgen Bruhn; Andrea Lešić; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bosnia; Bosnian literature; the infantile; child character; subversive infantilisation; nationalism; Balkanism; socialism; international administration; discourse theory; New Historicism; Jacques Rancière; Comparative literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The past two decades of political and social disintegration in Bosnia and Herzegovina have given birth to literary counterreactions against hegemonic ways of imagining social life in the country. This thesis deals with a particular practice in BosnianHerzegovinian war and post-war literature, which uses infantile perspectives to critically address issues related to the socialist history of Bosnia as part of Yugoslavia, the war in the 1990s, and the socalled transitional post-war period. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Moving Images of Literature : Transformations of Literature in Contemporary Video and Film Installation Art

    Författare :Tanja von Dahlern; Johan Prof.; Paula Docent; Jesper Olsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Transformation; Adaptation; Intermediality; Cultural Memory; Video and Film Installation; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This study aims to contribute to a better understanding of the many engagements with literature beyond the literary field. More specifically, it studies different ways of staging and transforming literature in video and film installation since the 1990s. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Litteraturens mått : politiska implikationer av litteraturundervisning som demokrati- och värdegrundsarbete

    Författare :Gustav Borsgård; Anders Öhman; Sven Anders Johansson; Magnus Persson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Teaching literature; citizenship education; democracy; didactics; entrepreneurship; subjectivity; ideology; neoliberalism; measurability; Litteraturundervisning; skönlitteratur; medborgarfostran; värdegrund; demokrati; litteraturdidaktik; entreprenörskap; subjektivitet; ideologi; nyliberalism; mätbarhet; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : Avhandlingens syfte är att undersöka politiska implikationer av idén om litteraturundervisning som demokrati- och värdegrundsarbete i förhållande till det ideal om mätbar kunskap som präglar samtidens utbildningspolicydiskurser. Det som står i fokus är 2011 års gymnasiereform, som tolkas mot bakgrund av en genomgripande förändring av den globala och europeiska utbildningspolicydiskursen från och med millennieskiftet. LÄS MER

  7. 5. L'esthétique didactique de Yasmina Khadra

    Författare :Karl Ågerup; Bengt Novén; Roland Lysell; Philippe Hamon; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; contemporary fiction; politcal novel; realism; reception theory; poetics; aesthetics; discourse analysis; didafiction; Yasmina Khadra; witness literature; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; French; franska; contemporary fiction; politcal novel; realism; reception theory; poetics; aesthetics; discourse analysis; didafiction; Yasmina Khadra; witness literature;

    Sammanfattning : Based on three novels by the contemporary Algerian novelist Yasmina Khadra, the study discusses didactic and aesthetic features of the literary text. While essentially set in the Arab world, Khadra’s fiction links to western encyclopaedia and journalistic discourse. LÄS MER