Sökning: "textuality"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 avhandlingar innehållade ordet textuality.
1. Hamlet the Sign : Russian Translations of Hamlet and Literary Canon Formation
Sammanfattning : This work is an attempt to answer one simple question: What is Hamlet? Based on the material of Hamlet translations into Russian, the dissertation scrutinizes the problems of literary canon formation, translation and textuality proceeding in two parallel directions: the historical analysis of canon formation in translation and the conceptualization of Hamlet’s textuality. The methodological framework is defined in the context of Jurij Lotman’s semiotics of culture, which is invaluable for an understanding of the mechanisms of literary evolution, the theory of translation and literary canon formation. LÄS MER
2. The Scriptures and the LORD : Formation and Significance of the Christian Biblical Canon. A Study in Text, Ritual and Interpretation
Sammanfattning : This study explores the emergence of the Christian biblical canon and its significance for the early as well as for the contemporary church. Some major challenges to previous research on the biblical canon are presented. LÄS MER
3. The Idea of the Walking Dead in Medieval Historical Texts with Particular Reference to the English Examples
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the origins and purpose of the stories about restless corpses appearing in the medieval Latin sources created in England between the eleventh and the fifteenth centuries. By engaging with a wide variety of sources, including ancient texts, walking-dead stories created in medieval Europe and Iceland, early modern and modern collections of folk tales, medieval medical treatises, and excavation reports, this thesis endeavours to provide a new insight into the nature of the accounts about revenants appearing in medieval English sources. LÄS MER
4. The True Story of Alice B. Toklas : Almost the Same but not Quite/not Straight in the Toklas Autobiographies
Sammanfattning : This study investigates three texts that can be provisionally defined as “Toklas autobiographies,” or inscriptions of “the true story of Alice B. Toklas.” These are Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) and The Alice B. LÄS MER
5. Ett språk, ett spår : En studie i Birgitta Trotzigs författarskap
Sammanfattning : The purpose of the dissertation is to investigate central and meaning producing themes in the oeuvre of the Swedish writer Birgitta Trotzig (born 1929). From a phenomenological viewpoint the oeuvre is seen as a totality, a life world, where the self, the world and language are interwoven in the act of literary expression. LÄS MER