Sökning: "travel writing"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 22 avhandlingar innehållade orden travel writing.

  1. 6. Och nu börjar historien : Hjalmar Söderbergs novellkonst

    Författare :Miranda Landen; Litteraturvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; illustrations; short stories in periodicals; modern collection; echoes; short-story collection; twist; narrative modes; closure; external narrator; debate-driven story; travel story; hunter’s-fire story; early 20th century writing; late 19th century writing; classic short story; short format; short story; genre history and genre theory of the short story; story type; narration; Hjalmar Söderberg;

    Sammanfattning : Hjalmar Söderberg (1869–1941) published some seventy short stories in five collections, Historietter (1898), Främlingarna (1903), Det mörknar öfver vägen (1907), Den talangfulla draken (1913) and Resan till Rom (1929). The present study explores Söderberg’s short fiction from a genre-historical and genre-theoretical perspective. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa

    Författare :Nicklas Hållen; Heidi Hansson; Stefan Helgesson; Tim Youngs; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; travel literature; Africa; modernity; materiality; material objects; things; commodity form; commodity culture; postcolonialism; Homi Bhabha; museums; exhibitions; colonialism; geography; space; trade; ethnography; the book; ambivalence; subject-object relations; fetishism; John Speke; Verney Cameron; Henry Stanley; Mary Kingsley; Ewart Grogan; Constance Larymore; Mary Hall; English language; Engelska språket; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Comparative literature; Historia;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Amerikafantasier : kön, medier och visualitet i svenska reseskildringar från USA 1945-63

    Författare :Amanda Lagerkvist; Johan Fornäs; Madeleine Kleberg; Kirsten Drotner; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; America in the Swedish imagination; visual culture studies; travel writing; media history; post-war era; mass culture debate; feminist media theory; representation; textual interpretation; urban theory; Reseskildringar; teman och motiv; historia; Förenta Staterna i litteraturen; Media and communication studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the construction of an imaginary America in Swedish travel writing from 1945 to 1963. By placing focus on the intersecting dimensions of gender, media, and visuality, the aim is to analyze Swedish notions of the US that surface both in the written word as well as in the illustrative material, by contextualizing these imaginings within the expanding media culture of the time. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Landskapets röster : Studier i Elias Martins bildvärld

    Författare :Mikael Ahlund; Hedvig Brander Jonsson; Emilie Karlsmo; Sten Åke Nilsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Landscape painting; 18th century Swedish art; 18th century British art; 18th century Sweden; Gustav III; art markets; travel writing; word image.; Art; Konstvetenskap; Konstvetenskap; History of Art;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is about the Swedish landscape painter Elias Martin (1739-1818). The main interest is in his depictions of nature, landscape images and topographical views. Chronologically, it covers the period 1760 to 1810. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Between Utopia and Home : Swedish radical travel writing 1947-1966

    Författare :Agneta Edman; Historia; []
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