Sökning: "elegy"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade ordet elegy.
1. Varying Virtue : Mythological Paragons of Wifely Virtues in Roman Elegy
Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates references to five mythological characters (Penelope, Laodamia, Andromache, Alcestis and Euadne) used as paragons of wifely virtues in Roman elegy. Providing extensive close readings, it discusses the usage of these five characters in the works of Propertius and Tibullus, and in the elegiac works of Ovid, with special reference to issues of narratology, intertextuality, and literary genre. LÄS MER
2. Remaining Like a Sword, Alone : Prolegomena
Sammanfattning : According to common scholarly opinion, early Arabic poetry encompasses a distinct genre which laments the dead, and which is the specific Arabic realisation of a universal, cross-culturally widespread genre of lamentation. Moreover, this genre — which commonly is referred to as ‘elegy’, but in the thesis, as ‘threnody’ — is identified with the type of poetry that in Arabic poetics is called riṯāʼ or marṯiya. LÄS MER
3. Att skriva gränserfarenheter. En studie i Åsa Nelvins och Eva Runefelts författarskap
Sammanfattning : Abstract The late 1970’s through the early 1980’s was an exciting and eventful period in Swedish literary history. Not only did the controversial and highly debated political women’s lit- erature emerge during this time, but also, simultaneously, new expressive forms began to take shape. LÄS MER
4. Minne, jag, 1800. Litterär självframställning hos Atterbom, Geijer, Widerberg och Heidenstam
Sammanfattning : Both the idea of the self and the idea of memory went through significant changes in the 18th and 19th centuries – developments that in important ways were driven by, and showcased in, the different forms of autobiographical expression popular during this period. With the aim of studying the Swedish context in this regard, the thesis describes a number of typical situations and thematic structures characterizing the relationship between self and memory in four works of ‘self-writing’ from the 1800s: P. LÄS MER
5. Från Orfeus till Eurydike : en rörelse i samtida svensk lyrik
Sammanfattning : The Orphic myth takes an important position through the history of poetry. Due to the cultural climate the myth has been assumed either to raise the position of the poet or to discuss the limitations of performed poetry. LÄS MER
