Sökning: "myth in literature"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 62 avhandlingar innehållade orden myth in literature.

1. 11. The extended voice : Instances of myth in the Indo-European corpus

   Författare :Peter Jackson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Indo-European poetics; Vedic religion; Greek religion; pre-Christian Scandinavian religion; myth; oral tradition; oral literature; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; History Of Religions; religionshistoria;

   Sammanfattning : Proceeding from the presence of recurrent, poetic phrases and verbal collocations in early texts composed in Indo-European languages, this study is an attempt to elucidate some fundamental problems of myth, tradition and culture. The scholarly study of Indo-European religions and mythology-initiated during the 19th century and proceeding up to modem times with varying success-has often been devoted to the task of restoring a homogeneous system of Indo-European religious beliefs by searching for deep-seated reflexes of such a system in the historically attainable cultures. LÄS MER

3. 12. Poiski Rusi nevidimoj  : Kitezjskaja legenda v russkoj kul’ture. 1843-1940

   Författare :Irina Karlsohn; Magnus Ljunggren; Högskolan Dalarna; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Russian literature; the Kitezh legend; myth; the myth of Holy Russia;

   Sammanfattning : This doctoral disseration examines the legend of the invisible city of Kitezh, its development and the role that it played in Russian culture between the years 1843 and 1940. It was during this period that the original folk legend was discovered by the Russian intelligentsia and transformed into a new myth about Russia. LÄS MER

4. 13. 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

5. 14. Poiski Rusi nevidimoj. Kitezskaja legenda v russkoj kul'ture. 1843-1940

   Författare :Irina Karlsohn; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Russian literature; the Kitezh legend; myth; Old Believers; N. Rimsky-Korsakov; symbolism; А. Bely; the Petersburg myth; the myth of Holy Russia; N. Kliuev;

   Sammanfattning : This doctoral dissertation examines the legend of the invisible city of Kitezh, its development and the role that it played in Russian culture between the years 1843 and 1940. It was during this period that the original folk legend was discovered by the Russian intelligentsia and transformed into a new myth about Russia. LÄS MER

7. 15. Minnets fosterland : Tid och teknik hos Atterbom, Geijer och Stagnelius

   Författare :Casper Virkkula; Paula Henrikson; Torsten Pettersson; Peter Henning; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom; Erik Gustaf Geijer; Erik Johan Stagnelius; Bernard Stiegler; Martin Heidegger; technics; technology; time; temporality; memory; cultural memory; myth; mythology; Swedish Romanticism; nationalism; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the form and role of Romantic memory as it pertains to the concepts of time and technics in the works of the Swedish Romanticist authors Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790–1855), Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847), and Erik Johan Stagnelius (1793–1823). The study examines how these authors use and reshape memories in an abstract sense – memories of historical events, mythological motifs, and metaphysical ideas – through the lens of cultural memory. LÄS MER