Sökning: "western literature"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 180 avhandlingar innehållade orden western literature.

  1. 1. Vampyrer : En kulturkritisk studie av den västerländska vampyrberättelsen från 1700-talet till 2000-talet

    Författare :Anna Höglund; Lars Elleström; Lisbeth Larsson; Yvonne Leffler; Växjö universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; vampire; vampires; power; literature; film; popular culture; consumer culture; gender; vampyr; vampyrer; makt; litteratur; film; populärkultur; konsumtionskultur; genus; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; History of science and ideas; Idé- o lärdomshistoria; Comparative literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : Vampires haunt our culture. They live amongst us, they live with us, and very likely, they live for us. Considering the never fading popularity of vampires, it is obvious that these beings satisfy some kind of basic human need. LÄS MER

  3. 2. A Children’s Literature? : Subversive Infantilisation in Contemporary Bosnian-Herzegovinian Fiction

    Författare :Fedja Borčak; Jørgen Bruhn; Andrea Lešić; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bosnia; Bosnian literature; the infantile; child character; subversive infantilisation; nationalism; Balkanism; socialism; international administration; discourse theory; New Historicism; Jacques Rancière; Comparative literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The past two decades of political and social disintegration in Bosnia and Herzegovina have given birth to literary counterreactions against hegemonic ways of imagining social life in the country. This thesis deals with a particular practice in BosnianHerzegovinian war and post-war literature, which uses infantile perspectives to critically address issues related to the socialist history of Bosnia as part of Yugoslavia, the war in the 1990s, and the socalled transitional post-war period. LÄS MER

  4. 3. L'esthétique didactique de Yasmina Khadra

    Författare :Karl Ågerup; Bengt Novén; Roland Lysell; Philippe Hamon; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; contemporary fiction; politcal novel; realism; reception theory; poetics; aesthetics; discourse analysis; didafiction; Yasmina Khadra; witness literature; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; French; franska; contemporary fiction; politcal novel; realism; reception theory; poetics; aesthetics; discourse analysis; didafiction; Yasmina Khadra; witness literature;

    Sammanfattning : Based on three novels by the contemporary Algerian novelist Yasmina Khadra, the study discusses didactic and aesthetic features of the literary text. While essentially set in the Arab world, Khadra’s fiction links to western encyclopaedia and journalistic discourse. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Ecriture et altérité dans trois romans de J. M. G. Le Clézio : Désert, Onitsha et La quarantaine

    Författare :Jeana Jarlsbo; Franska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; J. M. G. Le Clézio; alterity; narrative techniques; exotic novel; stylistic features; description; representation; writing strategies; intertextuality; effet-valeur ; Western reader; understanding and interpreting; reader s competence; French literature; Fransk litteratur; literature criticism; General and comparative literature; image of the Other; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori; French language; Franska språket;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to examine the relationship between writing and alterity in three recent novels written by J. M. G. Le Clézio, Désert (1980), Onitsha (1991) and La quarantaine (1995), which deal with the encounter between the so-called primitive cultures and Western society. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The "New Negro" in the Old World : culture and performance in James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Nella Larsen

    Författare :Lena Ahlin; Engelska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language and literature; Europe in African-American literature; Nella Larsen; Jessie Fauset; James Weldon Johnson; minstrelsy; whiteness; performance; cultural authenticity; New Negro; Harlem Renaissance; African Americans in Europe;

    Sammanfattning : I denna avhandling studeras europaskildringarna i James Weldon Johnsons The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), Jessie Fausets There Is Confusion (1924) och Nella Larsens Quicksand (1928) och hur dessa speglar afrikansk-amerikanernas roll i den västerländska civilisationen. I 1800-talets afrikansk-amerikanska litteratur figurerar Europa ofta som symbol för frihet och kultur. LÄS MER