Sökning: "eighteenth-century literature"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 34 avhandlingar innehållade orden eighteenth-century literature.

1. 1. The Order and the Archive : Freemasonic Archival Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe

   Författare :Tim Berndtsson; Otto Fischer; Ann Öhrberg; Henrik Bogdan; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; masonry; archival history; archival theory; the Swedish Order of Freemasons; the Order of the Strict Observance; esotericism; eighteenth-century literature; frimureri; arkivhistoria; arkivteori; Svenska Frimurare Orden; Strikta Observansen; esoterik; sjutttonhundratalslitteratur; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This study explores how eighteenth-century European Masons created archives, and how these archives in turn created Masons. It is an exploration of how a masonic archival culture was formed, and how different ideas, hopes, and anxieties were co-produced along with the records and manuscripts kept by masonic associations. LÄS MER

3. 2. Vice in the Service of Virtue: John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

   Författare :Lena Olsson; Engelska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bildungsroman; Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure; Fanny Hill; eighteenth-century erotica; pornography and literature; John Cleland; Eighteenth-century fiction; the English novel in the eighteenth century; John Locke and literature; prostitution in literature; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

   Sammanfattning : Originally published in two volumes in 1748-9, John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (or Fanny Hill) has long been an underground classic. Because of this underground status, and the prejudicial treatment of literary pornography, Memoirs has never been thoroughly investigated. LÄS MER

4. 3. The Sublime : Precursors and British Eighteenth-Century Conceptions

   Författare :Karl Axelsson; Lars-Olof Åhlberg; Tommie Zaine; Christina Svensson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Aesthetics; the sublime; Longinus; Peri Hupsous; British eighteenth century; Samuel H. Monk; criticism of intellectual literature; Thomas Hobbes; imagination; Estetik;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies the attraction of the sublime in British criticism during the eighteenth century, with particular emphasis on the arguments that served as precursors to the interest in the experience of the sublime. The first part explores Samuel H. LÄS MER

5. 4. Творительный падеж в русском языке XVIII века

   Författare :Nikita Mikhaylov; Ingrid Maier; Laura Janda; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; historical linguistics; case semantics; history of the Russian language; Instrumental case; eighteenth-century Russian; case variation; historical syntax; literary language; Slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to describe the sphere of use of the Russian Instrumental case in written sources from the eighteenth century. The research is based on approximately 11,300 instances of the use of the Instrumental and almost 2,400 constructions with other cases, excerpted from documents of various genres and styles. LÄS MER

7. 5. Great men and charming creatures : on male and female terms in eighteenth century novels

   Författare :Anna-Lena Wallin-Ashcroft; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; eighteenth century; sociolinguistics; semantics; experiential realism; gender role; conceptual model; prototype; frame; domain; collocation; metaphor; male; female; epicene; spirit matter; power dependency; active passive; varied limited;

   Sammanfattning : A corpus of terms for human beings collected from 18th century novels is studied from a broad sociolinguistic perspective. A summary of recent linguistic theories and a survey of 18th century culture and society are provided as background. LÄS MER