Sökning: "english short stories"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden english short stories.

1. 1. Possibility-Space and Its Imaginative Variations in Alice Munro's Short Stories

   Författare :Ulrica Skagert; Paul Schreiber; Mark Levene; Rosemary Sullivan; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Alice Munro; fate; possibility-space; compellation; phenomenology; Canadian literature; short story; realism; Alain Badiou; Maurice Natanson; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : With its perennial interest in the seemingly ordinary lives of small-town people, Alice Munro’s fiction displays a deceptively simple surface reality that on closer scrutiny reveals intricate levels of unexpected complexity about the fundamentals of human experience: love, choice, mortality, faith and the force of language. This study takes as its main purpose the exploration of Munro’s stories in terms of the intricacy of emotions in the face of commonplace events of life and their emerging possibilities. LÄS MER

3. 2. Of Imagined and Potential Futures : Speculative Fiction in Southern Africa, 2008-2018

   Författare :Joanna Woods; Stefan Helgesson; Marina Kohnen Ludwigs; Adnan Mahmutović; Madhu Krishnan; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Southern Africa; contemporary literature; speculative fiction; short stories; digital; rhetorical studies; narratology; literary field; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This research project explores the rhetorical function of contemporary Anglophone speculative fiction (sf) in southern Africa. Focusing on short fiction produced between 2008 and 2018, the project delineates this literary production both theoretically and historically. LÄS MER

4. 3. The Nation Conceived : Learning, Education, and Nationhood in American Historical Novels of the 1820s

   Författare :Johanna McElwee; Rolf Lundén; Erik Löfroth; Shirley Samuels; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; United States; education; learning; historical fiction; antebellum literature; national identity; anti-intellectualism; Lydia Maria Child; James Fenimore Cooper; Catharine Maria Sedgwick; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This study explores the role of learning and education in American historical fiction written in the 1820s. The United States has been, and still is, commonly considered to be hostile to scholarly learning. LÄS MER

5. 4. Meaning by metaphor : an exploration of metaphor with a metaphoric reading of two short stories by Stephen Crane

   Författare :Gunnar Backman; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska språket;

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7. 5. A study on the use of dialect in Thomas Hardy's novels and short stories with special reference to phonology and vocabulary

   Författare :Ulla Baugner; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

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