Sökning: "occasional literature"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 25 avhandlingar innehållade orden occasional literature.
1. Vittra fruntimmer : Författarroll och retorik hos frihetstidens kvinnliga författare
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with Swedish women writers during the so called Age of Liberty (1720–1772). A total of 141 female authors of printed texts are presented, the majority unmentioned in earlier research. LÄS MER
2. Dygdens förvandlingar : Begreppet dygd i tillfällestryck till handelsmän före 1780
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with how the concept of virtue (dygd) is used in Swedish occasional poetry addressed to merchants before 1780. Occasional poetry was the major kind of literature in Sweden in the seventeenth and the eighteenth century, and usually addressed to the nobility and other dominant groups. LÄS MER
3. The Novels of an Egyptian Romanticist : Yūsuf al-Sibāʿī
Sammanfattning : The Egyptian author Yuusuf al-Sibaa'ii (1917-1978) was not worried about the critical attitude that the literary élite and the book reviewers displayed towards his novels. He had many thousands of enthusiastic readers in all parts of the Arab world. This thesis seeks to uncover what lies beind these divergent opinions. LÄS MER
4. Den lekande Fröding : en författarskapsstudie
Sammanfattning : The dissertation examines the collected literary works of Gustaf Fröding (1860-1911), from which it unearths a vital, yet hitherto unrecognised dimension: Fröding at play. The opening chapter accounts for how the concept of play has been made use of in previous literary research and elaborates, by way of an inter-disciplinary transfer of concept and with Fröding's chalice poem "En pligt-dikt" as key text, a literary play model. LÄS MER
5. Herodes Atticus Reflected in Occasional Poetry of Antonine Athens
Sammanfattning : The occasional poetry of the Antonine period relating to the wealthy sophist and important second century AD political personality in Athens, Herodes Atticus, is studied. Some of the functions of poetry are illustrated, as it is used by one of the leading personalities of the Second Sophistic. LÄS MER