Sökning: "madman"

Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade ordet madman.

  1. 1. Voices at the Borders, Prose on the Margins : Exploring the Contemporary Pashto Short Story in a Context of War and Crisis

    Författare :Anders Widmark; Carina Jahani; Christina Oesterheld; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pashto; Pashtun; Pashto literature; short story; war and crisis; poeticised communities; terrorist; madman; female agency; disillusion; Iranska språk; Iranian Languages;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of contemporary Pashto prose writing in a context of war and crisis based on a corpus of digitally published and/or printed short stories from the 1990s onwards. Out of this larger corpus, 16 stories have been selected and analysed under four topics: "The Terrorist", Female agency: Representations of and by, "The Madman", and Axtar: Longing for peace or imaging disillusion. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Las voces del 'loco'. La representación ambigua de la conciencia en "Pido la muerte al rey", de Ramón Hernández

    Författare :Sofía García Nespereira; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Spanish literature; madness and literature; narratology; consciousness representation; ambiguity;

    Sammanfattning : This study focuses on some of the mechanisms that can create readerly ambiguity in the representation of “consciousness” (in this context understood as “mental activity”) in Ramón Hernández’ novel Pido la muerte al rey, which revolves around the life of psychiatric patient Gontrán Zaldívar. One kind of ambiguity arises from the constant shift between the autodiegetic and the heterodiegetic narrators in the novel. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The Birth of a Heruka : How Sangs rgyas rgyal mtshan became gTsang smyon Heruka: A Study of a Mad Yogin

    Författare :Stefan Larsson; Per-Arne Berglie; Erik af Edholm; Hanna Havnevik; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Tibetan Buddhism; Tantric Buddhism; bKa’ brgyud tradition; gTsang smyon Heruka 1452–1507 ; mad yogin rnal ’byor smyon pa ; hagiography rnam thar ; “disciplined conduct” brtul zhugs spyod pa ; History of religion; Religionshistoria; religionshistoria; History of Religion;

    Sammanfattning : gTsang smyon Heruka (1452–1507) is one of Tibet’s most famous mad yogins. The mad yogins represent a relatively unknown aspect of Tibetan Buddhism that flourished in the 15th and 16th centuries. LÄS MER