Sökning: "women and medieval literature"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden women and medieval literature.
1. Pearl and Contemplative Writing
Sammanfattning : This dissertation places Pearl in the context of works by the English fourteenth-century contemplative writers (‘mystics’), as well as of patristic and other theological treatises, focusing on the theme of comprehending and speaking about a transcendent divine dimension. The purpose is to show that Pearl and the works of Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Walter Hilton, Richard Rolle and the author of The Cloud of Unknowing share a concern with attempting to express the inexpressible. LÄS MER
2. The Female Reader at the Round Table : Religion and Women in Three Contemporary Arthurian Texts
Sammanfattning : Stretching back at least a thousand years, Arthurian literature constitutes a vigorous and varied genre that attracts scholarly attention. In a close reading of three modern Arthurian texts, Mary Stewart’s Merlin trilogy, The Crystal Cave (1970), The Hollow Hills (1973), The Last Enchantment (1979), Marion Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon (1982), and Stephen Lawhead’s Pendragon Cycle, Taliesin (1987), Merlin (1988), Arthur (1989), Pendragon (1994), and Grail (1997), this study focuses on the intersection between two of the genre’s motifs: religion and gender. LÄS MER
3. Aided Derbforgaill "The violent death of Derbforgaill" : A critical edition with introduction, translation and textual notes
Sammanfattning : This dissertation contains a critical edition of the early Irish tale Aided Derbforgaill “the violent death of Derbforgaill”. It includes an introduction discussing the main thematic components of the tale as well as intertextuality, transmission and manuscript relationship. LÄS MER
4. Zum Löwen geboren : gender in Entwicklungsromanen aus verschiedenen Jahrhunderten: Parzival, Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Ahnung und Gegenwart, Netzkarte, Der junge Mann
Sammanfattning : This study focusses on the gender system in five “novels of development” (Entwicklungsroman) ranging from the medieval to the contemporary. The following works are examined: Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Joseph von Eichendorff’s Ahnung und Gegenwart, Netzkarte by Sten Nadolny and Botho Strauß’ Der junge Mann. LÄS MER
5. Was hat uns dieser Gast wohl zu erzählen? oder Die Jagd nach dem Nobelpreis. : zur Rezeption niederländischer Literatur in Schweden. Mit einer Bibliographie der Übersetzungen 1830-1995
Sammanfattning : This work provides a survey of Dutch literature translated into Swedish between 1830 and 1995 in order to investigate the mechanisms and selection criteria that determined the reception given this literature in the Swedish literary field.The introduction briefly sketches intercultural relations between Sweden and the Low Countries until 1830. LÄS MER
