Sökning: "metafiction"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 avhandlingar innehållade ordet metafiction.
1. A World of Myths : World Literature and Storytelling in Canongate's Myths series
Sammanfattning : This thesis discusses contemporary publishing within the global, literary system through the prism of the transnational publishing project the Myths series, initiated by Scottish publishing house Canongate Books in 2005. By combining the perspectives of world literature studies and sociology of literature, I explore the conception, development and communication around the Myths series (today published in forty countries) in relation firstly to the contemporary changes in the publishing industry, situated within a more general literary debate on globalisation and cultural diversity and secondly the rise of a social order epitomised under the umbrella term “new economy”, in which the practice of strategic communication or marketing storytelling has become increasingly common. LÄS MER
2. C. J. L. Almqvists slottskrönika och det indirekta skrivsättet
Sammanfattning : The subject of this thematic and narrative-technical study is the Swedish author Carl Jonas Love Almqvist's (1793-1866) slottskrönika (castle chronicle) and the indirect way of writing. The castle chronicle comprises the novels Jaktslottet (The Hunting Castle; 1833), Hinden (The Hind; 1833) and Baron Julius K* (1835), all of which are included in Almqvist's great collective work, Törnrosens bok (The Briar-rose Book). LÄS MER
3. Les « incroyabilicieux » mondes de Ponti : Une étude du double lectorat dans l’œuvre de Claude Ponti
Sammanfattning : This study posits that Claude Ponti’s fiction can be regarded as paradigmatic of "crosswriting": written for a dual audience of children and adults. Sections One and Two examine those elements indicative of crosswriting in Ponti’s children's stories, primarily his picturebooks. LÄS MER
4. Om kyrklundheten : Värde, kunskap och skrivande i Willy Kyrklunds Om godheten
Sammanfattning : The quest for certainty is a constant theme in the works of Swedish-Finnish author Willy Kyrklund. This quest is communicated both explicitly in essayistic prose articles and implicitly as a theme in his works of fiction. LÄS MER
5. Jernbanans mödrar : Moderskap och berättande i Sara Lidmans Jernbaneepos
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines motherhood and mothering in seven novels by the Swedish author Sara Lidman (1923–2004). Published between 1977 and 1999 and collectively known as the Railroad Epic, the novels depict the industrialization of Northern Sweden in the late 19th century, and how it affected the people living there. LÄS MER