Sökning: "materiality of literature"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 43 avhandlingar innehållade orden materiality of literature.
1. Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa
Sammanfattning : This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. LÄS MER
2. Själens medium : Skrift och subjekt i Nordeuropa omkring 1500
Sammanfattning : The era of the digital revolution has made it possible to acknowledge literature as a technological object, inseparable from its medium. This study attempts to outline the prerequisites of a material history of literature that does not focus primarily upon works or authors but rather on the media itself, the mnemotechnics and the practices of reading and writing that make such phenomena possible in the first place. LÄS MER
3. Scenes of Writing, Scenes of Looking : Don DeLillo, Claus Beck-Nielsen, and the Politics of the Novel
Sammanfattning : Cries of the death of the novel and even of literature in general have become cultural commonplaces. In an age seemingly dominated by digital spectacle, many seem to think that traditional print literature has become an almost obsolete cultural practice, bereft of any critical social and political relevance. LÄS MER
4. Cultural Techniques of Presence : Luis de Góngora and Early Modern Media
Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the materiality of Early Modern Spanish poetry and particularly that of Luis de Góngora (1561-1627). Its purpose is to focus on physical and concrete aspects in order to create new knowledge of the past. LÄS MER
5. Sakernas sammanhang : Om ting, människor och materiella relationer hos Henry Parland, James Joyce och Virginia Woolf
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the ways in which the writings of Henry Parland, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf works to foreground things and decenter humans. While the exploration of human inner life is a well established theme within Modernist literature, the period’s fascination with the material and non-human remains underexplored. LÄS MER
