Sökning: "space in literature"

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1. 21. Studies in Swedish Sign Language : Reference, Real Space Blending, and Interpretation

   Författare :Anna-Lena Nilsson; Brita Bergman; Terry Janzen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish Sign Language; INDEX-c; first person pronoun; non-dominant hand; buoys; Real Space blending; token blend; surrogate blend; signing space; constructed dialogue; constructed action; sign language interpreting; Sign language; Teckenspråk; Sign Language; teckenspråk;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis comprises four separate studies of the same material: a ten-minute Swedish Sign Language monologue. Study I describes the form, meaning, and use of the sign INDEX-c, a pointing toward the chest traditionally described as a first person pronoun. LÄS MER

3. 22. Sentieri e radure : Le forme del cronotopo d'iniziazione in Alessandro Baricco

   Författare :Broula Barnohro Oussi; Luminita Beiu-Paladi; Krzysztof Bak; Alberto Casadei; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Alessandro Baricco; chronotope of initiation; Mircea Eliade; Mikhail Bakhtin; sacred; profane; space; time; quest; myth; chaos; cosmos; regressus ad uterum; descensus ad inferos; centre; verticality; italienska; Italian;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of the present dissertation is to study the elaborations of the initiation myth in contemporary Italian author Alessandro Baricco. The theoretical and methodological framework consists mainly of Mircea Eliade’s phenomenological theory of initiation. LÄS MER

4. 23. Ordspråk i bruk : Användning av ordspråk i dramadialog

   Författare :Anders Widbäck; Ulla Melander Marttala; Carin Östman; Ann-Catrine Edlund; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; proverb; drama dialogue; language use; speech functions; pragmatics; ordspråk; drama; dramadialog; språkanvändning; språkhandling; funktion; pragmatik; Nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is a study of proverbs and their use in dialogue. Proverbs have a long history but have not been the subject of much linguistic research in Sweden. The purpose of the study is to examine how proverbs are used, who uses them and to what extent they are used. LÄS MER

5. 24. In the first person and in the house : The house chronotope in four works by American women writers

   Författare :Maria Holmgren Troy; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska; English;

   Sammanfattning : The house looms large in American literature and plays a significant part in American society and history. This study uses Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope to examine the house in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons (1862), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979), and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping (1980). LÄS MER

7. 25. Soundscapes in nineteenth-century Gothic short stories

   Författare :Elena Glotova; Virginia Langum; Marlene Johansson Falck; Sylvia Mieszkowski; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; soundscape; the Gothic; short story; auscultator; acousmatic sound; liminality; the uncanny; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : In the eerie world of Gothic literature, sound represents a source of fear, anxiety, and discomfort, and it mostly affects its listeners through the invisible character of the experience. Sound is integral to nineteenth-century Gothic short stories with their panoply of liminal and polyphonic oppositions, as well as a claustrophobic feel of spaces, fearful listeners, and the return of the repressed. LÄS MER