Sökning: "imaginary world"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 35 avhandlingar innehållade orden imaginary world.
16. synligt/osynligt : Receptionen av det visuella i bilderböckerna om Alfons Åberg
Sammanfattning : Alfie Atkins (or Alfons Åberg as he is known in Swedish) by Gunilla Bergström is a ubiquitous picture book character. For forty years, 1972-2012, he has met his audience in twenty-four picture books. These have been reviewed extensively primarily with a focus on their literary content. LÄS MER
17. Material virtualities : Approaching online textual embodiment
Sammanfattning : While the Internet is often presented as a disembodied medium, various forms of bodily presence are continually introduced when people meet online. This study explores notions of embodiment in a particular text-based virtual world (here called WaterMOO) by investigating how bodies- always sexually specific- are created and rendered meaningful in online textual practices. LÄS MER
18. Den litterära utopin och dystopin i Sverige 1734-1940
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to map the occurrence of the literary utopian genre in Sweden and to examine its history and forms.In the first chapter, the concepts of utopia and dystopia are defined. The literary utopia as a genre is understood as including the literary dystopia. LÄS MER
19. A European State of Mind : Rhetorical Formations of European Identity within the EU 1973–2014
Sammanfattning : European identity has become a central issue in the EU’s political imaginary. In recent years, European identity—and related notions of a European destiny, European culture, and a European narrative—has been deployed as a weapon against the rise of the political far-right across Europe. LÄS MER
20. La Poétique de Houellebecq : réalisme, satire, mythe
Sammanfattning : This thesis sets out to explore French writer Michel Houellebecq’s poetics of the novel. It is advanced in the introduction that Houellebecq’s work could be read against the novelist’s 1997 suggestion that “if somebody today was able to craft a mode of expression that was at once honest and positive, they would change the world”. LÄS MER