Sökning: "fantastic literature"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 avhandlingar innehållade orden fantastic literature.

1. 1. Ecologies of the Imagination : Theorizing the participatory aesthetics of the fantastic

   Författare :Per Israelson; Anders Cullhed; Marcel O'Gorman; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Media theory; genre theory; media ecology; posthumanism; ecocriticism; neocybernetics; sympoiesis; ontogenesis; fantasy; the fantastic; comic books; William Blake; Alan Moore; J. R. R. Tolkien; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This book is about the participatory aesthetics of the fantastic. In it, the author argues that the definition of the fantastic presented by Tzvetan Todorov in 1970 can be used, provided it is first adapted to a media-ecological framework, to theorize the role of aesthetic participation in the creation of secondary worlds. LÄS MER

3. 2. Hemsökelser : Gotiken i sex berättelser av Selma Lagerlöf

   Författare :Sofia Wijkmark; Yvonne Leffler; Maria Holmgren-Troy; Birhte Sjöberg; Karlstads universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Selma Lagerlöf; the Gothic; Fin-de-siècle; the Uncanny; the Fantastic; the Double; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Comparative Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : The topic of this thesis is the gothic fiction of Selma Lagerlöf. Its primary purpose is to investigate how Lagerlöf's work can be understood in relation to the gothic genre; what particular themes, motifs and formal aspects appear when making this connection and how they can be interpreted, as well as which literary and cultural contexts become relevant. LÄS MER

4. 3. "Creating the Senses" : Sensation in the work of Shelley Jackson

   Författare :Tove Solander; Maria Lindgren Leavenworth; Gabriele Griffin; Sara Danius; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Shelley Jackson; senses; literary percepts; body art; object art; hypertext; fantastic fiction; minor writing; écriture féminine; queer theory; feminist theory; phenomenology; Gilles Deleuze; engelska; English; Aesthetics; estetik; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This monograph on the œuvre of contemporary American author and multimedia artist Shelley Jackson addresses the question of how literary works employ language to evoke sense impressions. Gilles Deleuze’s notion of aesthetic percepts is drawn on to develop a theory of literary phantom sensations which is then tested on the work of Jackson and related authors. LÄS MER

5. 4. Biblique des derniers gestes de Patrick Chamoiseau : Fantastique et Histoire

   Författare :Liviu Lutas; Björn Larsson; Anne Douaire; Franska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; métalepse; metalepsis; postcolonialism; magical realism; the fantastic; Chamoiseau; History; Historiography; fiction; uncanny; Franska med litteraturvetenskaplig inriktning; French literature; métalepse; Post-colonialisme; Surnaturel; Réalisme magique; Histoire; Réalisme merveilleux; Fantastique; the uncanny; l inquiétante étrangeté; Chamoiseau;

   Sammanfattning : Patrick Chamoiseau is arguably the most prominent cultural personality from the French island of Martinique. His reputation is due to the worldwide success of his novels, especially Texaco, winner of the Prix Goncourt-award in 1992, but also to the fact that he is the leading theorist of the Créolité, an ideological movement whose aim is to preserve the character of Creole identity and culture against the threat of assimilation. LÄS MER

7. 5. Funny Bodies, Humour and Grotesque in English Childrens´ Literature

   Författare :Andrew Casson; Dieter Petzold; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of grotesque and transgressional humour in English children's literature. The grotesque is seen here as a liminal and ambivalent aesthetic category at the junction between two fields of tension: the fantastic and the real in one field and the comic and the horrible in the other. LÄS MER