Sökning: "literary motif"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 40 avhandlingar innehållade orden literary motif.

  1. 1. La Poétique de Houellebecq : réalisme, satire, mythe

    Författare :Jacob Carlson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Michel Houellebecq; poetics; metaphysics; Arthur Schopenhauer; Auguste Comte; positivism; Jean Cohen; aesthetic categories; lyricism; literary genre; Erich Auerbach; literary realism; Mikhail Bakhtin; satire; Menippean satire; cynicism; Novalis; Michael Riffaterre; motif of light vs; darkness; motif of the sun; myth; literary myth; myth of androgyny; symbol; romanticism;

    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

  3. 2. En svensk harlekinad : Narren som litterärt motiv hos Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Hjalmar Bergman och Lars Forssell

    Författare :Åsa Mälhammar; Anders Cullhed; Johan Stenström; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; fool; jester; clown; Pierrot; Harlequin; puppet theatre; marionette; commedia dell’arte; literary motif; mask; theatrical; literary form of expression; Swedish poetry; Swedish novel; Hjalmar Bergman; C.J.L. Almqvist; Lars Forssell; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; History of Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The subject of the thesis emerges out of curiosity as to how something which is essentially theatrical is transferred to a literary form of expression. Against this background the fool has been chosen as a potentially theatrical figure. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Bortom ödelandet : En studie i Stina Aronsons författarskap

    Författare :Caroline Graeske; Margaretha Fahlgren; Petra Broomans; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Literature; gender; historical context; literary field; narrative technique; idiom; aesthetics; ethics; Litteraturvetenskap; Stina Aronson; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; Svenska med didaktisk inriktning;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the writing of Stina Aronson. The main objective is to study how Aronson (1892–1956) developed as a writer in a contempory cultural context, as well as to revise the image of Aronson as a provincial writer. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Modernismens bilder : Den moderna bilderboken i Norden

    Författare :Elina Druker; Boel Westin; Nina Christensen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Children’s literature; picture books; modernism; literary history; illustration; artists’ books; intermediality; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; litteraturvetenskap; History of Literature;

    Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis is based on a survey of an extensive corpus of Nordic picture books and illustrated children’s books from mainly the 1940’s and 1950’s. It discusses different aspects of the position of the child, children’s culture and children’s literature in the works of the young generation of artists during this era. LÄS MER

  7. 5. INDEBTED BODIES, Debt and Decadence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

    Författare :Signe Leth Gammelgaard; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; New Economic Criticism; debt; Balzac; Trollope; Zola; Huysmans; Wilde; Mirbeau; money; nineteenth-century novel; economy and literature; materialism; Marxist literary theory; semiotics; Saussure; the human body in literature.;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the relationship between linguistic and stylistic innovation in nineteenth-century literature on the one hand and shifts in the dynamics of the economic sign system on the other. It draws on prior work on parallels between language and money and argues specifically that developments in the nineteenth-century novel can be understood in terms of the contemporaneous economic history, and that the two sign systems of language and money display structural similarities in this period. LÄS MER