Sökning: "travel fiction"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 12 avhandlingar innehållade orden travel fiction.

1. 1. Conflicting Times : Multiple Temporalities in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction

   Författare :Erik Mo Welin; Joakim Enwall; Hua Li; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Science fiction; Chinese literature; Temporality; Time travel; Alternate history; Apocalypse; Chronopolitics; Sinologi; Sinology;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the intersection of temporality and politics in contemporary Chinese science fiction. Building on previous research on Chinese science fiction, science fiction studies, as well as narrative theory and historical theory, the investigation focuses on eight key texts written by the writers Han Song, Liu Cixin, and Baoshu. LÄS MER

3. 2. Seven Senses of the City : Urban Spacetime and Sensory Memory in Contemporary Sinophone Fiction

   Författare :Astrid Møller-Olsen; Kinesiska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literary sensory studies; sensory studies; urban fiction; senses; Sinophone fiction; comparative literature; Chinese literature; Taipei; Hong Kong; Shanghai; literary studies; spacetime; spatiality; narratology; rhythmanalysis;

   Sammanfattning : The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the narrative mechanisms and imagery that fictional works employ to conceptualize and communicate complex human experiences of space, time and memory. Furthermore, this study shows how contemporary cities change the way we think about such basic concepts by analyzing narratives that employ and encourage multisensory, spatiotemporal understandings of reality characterized by permeable boundaries between the material, social and imaginary domains. LÄS MER

4. 3. Att översätta världen : Kommunikation och subversivt ärende i Henri Michaux' Voyage en Grande Garabagne

   Författare :Maria Wennerström Wohrne; Torsten Pettersson; Marie-Christine Skuncke; Bengt Novén; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; Henri Michaux; modern literature; literary tradition; travel fiction; authoritarian structures; subversive mission; comparative analysis; sociocultural reality; satire; linguistic innovations; violations of norms; expanding movement; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : The principal aim of this dissertation is to uncover signifying patterns in Henri Michaux’s travel fiction Voyage en Grande Garabagne, and to situate the work in a literary as well as an extralinguistic context. Hereby the dissertation seeks to modify the traditional image of both Voyage and Michaux’s entire literary output as creations allegedly cut off from extralinguistic reality, the literary tradition, and the reader. LÄS MER

5. 4. Hur leva sitt liv? : Om livshållning och retorik i Claes Hylingers författarskap

   Författare :Arne Florin; Göran Rossholm; Ingemar Haag; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; rhetoric; genre; intertextuality; autobiography; short prose; attitude towards life; motifs of Bildung; diary; fiction; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : The writings of Claes Hylinger are in many ways light and marked by a sense of well-being (the casual tone, the humour, the warmth). But the texts also have a streak of melancholy and a critical edge. LÄS MER

7. 5. Dreams of a subversive future : sexuality, (hetero)normativity, and queer potential in science fiction film and television

   Författare :Josefine Wälivaara; Per Ringby; Christina Svens; Stacey Abbott; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Science fiction; film; television; genre; sexuality; queer; storytelling; gender; subversive; intelligibility; Torchwood; Firefly; Star Wars; Star Trek; adult turn; Star’verses; dramaturgy; heteronormativity; film history; Hollywood; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of the thesis is to explore depictions of sexuality in popular science fiction film and television through a focus on storytelling, narrative, characters and genre. The thesis analyses science fiction as a film and television genre with a focus on the conventions, interpretations, and definitions of genre as part of larger contexts. LÄS MER