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Kent, Neil. "Light and nature in late 19th century nordic art and literature /." Uppsala : Universitätet, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35408280q.
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Berry, Charlotte Jane. "Publishing, translation, archives : Nordic children's literature in the United Kingdom, 1950-2000." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9450.
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This thesis uses a multidisciplinary approach drawing primarily on archival and bibliographical research as well as the fields of children’s literature, book history and translation to explore British translation of Nordic children’s fiction since 1950. Which works of Nordic children’s literature have been published in the UK during the period in question? And how were Nordic children’s authors and texts selected by British publishers, along with British translators and illustrators? Chapter One gives an overview of limited past research in this area, focusing on publishing and book history and Translation Studies (particularly Polysystem Theory). Chapter Two considers bibliographical research already undertaken in Children’s Literature Translation Studies and is followed by a detailed study of the British National Bibliography (1950-2000). This methodological approach has documented for the first time the depth and breadth of the corpus of British translations of Nordic children’s fiction since 1950, enabling key authors, publishers, translators and genres to be identified. A brief analysis is given of the Golden Age of Nordic children’s literature in British translation up to 1975, followed by a decline into the twenty first century. The thesis then goes on to examine the principles and practices of text and translator selection as its second major research element, with extensive use made here of archival sources. Chapter Three explores publishing archives as a research resource and details issues in their distribution and potential use. Chapter Four gives an overview of the key role of the editor as a centre pin in the process of publishing works in translation, drawing on a wide range of publishing archives as well as introducing the case study part of the thesis which examines an independent press and a major international academic publishing house. Chapter Five looks in detail at the role of author-educator-publisher Aidan Chambers in publishing Nordic children’s literature in the early 1990s through small press Turton & Chambers. Chapter Six examines the role of Oxford University Press in publishing Nordic authors from the 1950s to the 2010s, in particular Astrid Lindgren. This thesis aims to make a significant and unique scholarly contribution to the hitherto neglected study of the translation of children’s literature into British English, offering a methodological framework (bibliographical and archival) which has potential for use with other language systems and with adult literature in translation.
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Vasu, Casandra. "Dyeing Sutton Hoo Nordic Blonde: An Interpretation of Swedish Influences on the East Anglian Gravesite." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1208311061.
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Madsen, Diana. "Relation between Crime and Immigration in the Nordic countries : A Narrative Literature Review on the period of 2015-2020." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för kriminologi (KR), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43957.
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The period 2015-2020 has remained limitless in terms of missing data on crime and immigration in the Nordic countries, starting from the number of irregular and undocumented migrants and asylum seekers, continuing with the underrepresented immigrant statistics in crime. This paper consists of a complex understanding of immigration processes across the Nordic region, establishing narrow themes associated with crime and immigration. The findings of this paper presented five essential links to the criminality among the immigrant population in the Nordic countries during 2015-2020, that were compiled from the majority of the current available studies in this research field. At this point, the paper represents official data from the Nordic countries and a narrow literature review of recent studies, which depicted immigrants as more often suspected of crimes compared to the ethnic populations, assuming that it could have established a false social identity of an individual with foreign background. The reason of that supposition is explained by the findings on migrants to be overrepresented in crime, biased “immigrant beliefs” and yet evident immigrant labelling.
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Eichler, Sharon. "Educational and mental health intervention methods for refugee children integrating in the Nordic mainstream education : A Systematic Literature Review." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, CHILD, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-47238.
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BACKGROUND Good mental health makes integration and participation easier. Many refugees have a great deal of resilience and it is important to maintain it and where possible to strengthen it. How much psychological complaints and disorders occur is partly dependent on having (prospect of) work, education or other forms of participation in society, experiencing social support, and having a social network (with family and /or close friends). AIM The aim of this literature review is to explore evidence-based intervention methods that can support refugee children to integrate into the school environment of the resettlement country. METHOD In this systematic literature review, information was collected on a database for empirical studies and analyzed so as to discover efficient interventions for refugee children who just arrived in a Nordic country to help them integrate in mainstream schools. RESULTS For children, cohesion and support within the family are of great concern. In addition, prevention, recognition and receiving good care are crucial. The review discusses educational progress and social inclusion and how these can be improved for refugee children at a mainstream school. CONCLUSION The school takes on a very important role in the life of the refugee child. It is a strong protective factor and therefore life changing for the child and his/her family. This systematic literature review shows what kind of information is already produced and collected by researchers around the world. It can give an insight into the life of a refugee child and how they experience inclusion.
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Ferrari, A. "Il giallo svedese contemporaneo come 'narrazione a dominante distopica'. Åsa Larsson, Liza Marklund e Stieg Larsson." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/228453.
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This thesis takes into consideration three popular contemporary Swedish crime writers – Liza Marklund, Åsa Larsson and Stieg Larsson – considering their novels as “dystopic narratives”. Adopting this point of view allows the reader to find a relationship between the real world and the catastrophic, literary one represented by the books. Through a thematic analysis of the novels this work shows how the writers construct dystopic universes in order to discuss some real social problems of their time.
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Fagerström, Johanna. "How China and Nordic countries conceptualise Corporate Social Responsibility : – A study of senior decision-makers’ statements within the banking sector." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Kinesiska, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-35145.
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The “statement” from senior decision-maker is a section in the sustainability report, where the most “senior decision-maker” of the institution (such as CEO, chairman, or equivalent senior position) gives the personal view about the relevance of sustainability to the institution and its strategy for addressing sustainability. Such a statement is one medium used by company leaders to communicate their attitudes and values to stakeholders in sustainability reports. Under commercial circumstances, sustainability is also referred to as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). This paper analyzes Chinese and Nordics senior decision-makers’ perception of CSR within the banking sector. The research sample consists of statements of senior decision-makers from sustainability reports of four Chinese banks, respective four Nordic banks. Previous studies show that CSR conception is influenced by cultural and social backgrounds. By analyzing respective Chinese/Nordic senior decision-maker’s statement, this study isaimingtofindout how Chinese/Nordic culture and social concepts are promoted in their respective bank institutions, and therefore lead to different CSR focus and strategies. The results from the study show that Chinese senior decision-makers’ statements are strongly influenced by traditional Chinese philosophy and social background, especially Confucian and Taoism, as well asXi Jinping’s guidelines delivered at the 19th National Congress of the Communist and the 13th Five-Year Plan. In relation to the Nordic senior decision-makers the gender equality and racial equality were noted. Senior decision-makers of Chinese banks mainly focus on “social stability and progress”, “economic responsibility”, and “customers”,while senior decision-makers of Nordic banks mainly focus on “economic responsibility”, “customers”, and “environmental protection”.公司资深决策者(首席执行官，董事长，或同等级别)会在可持续发展报告中 用一个章节来申明他们的观点。这个章节的内容涵盖可持续发展与该公司组 织架构的相关度，以及该公司可持续发展的战略和对策。公司领导通过这种 形式对股东传达公司的态度和价值观。在商业环境中，可持续发展也经常被 称为公司社会责任(CSR)。 本论文分析了中国和北欧银行业资深决策者们对于企业社会责任的认知。本 论文的研究对象是银行可持续发展报告中资深决策者的陈述观点，它们分别 取自4家中国银行和4家北欧银行。现存的研究指出公司社会责任这一概念以 及对其的认知受到文化和社会背景的影响。通过研究中国和北欧不同银行资 深决策者在可持续发展报告中的陈述及观点，本论文意在深入理解文化和社 会因素是如何在公司中得到，并最终影响公司社会责任的实践和战略。 研究结果显示中国传统哲学和社会背景深刻影响中国银行业资深决策者对于 可持续发展的陈述和观点，特别是儒家思想，道家思想，和习近平在19大的 报告，以及中国第十三个五年规划。而在北欧，可持续发展报告主要受到性 别平等和种族平等方面的影响。在银行可持续报告中，中国的资深决策者主 要关注“社会平稳和发展”，“经济责任”，和“客户”，而北欧的资深决策者主 要关注“经济责任”，“客户”和“环境保护”。
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Hill, Lorna. "Bloody women : a critical-creative examination of how female protagonists have transformed contemporary Scottish and Nordic crime fiction." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27352.
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This study will explore the role of female authors and their female protagonists in contemporary Scottish and Nordic crime fiction. Authors including Val McDermid, Denise Mina, Lin Anderson and Liza Marklund are just a few of the women who have challenged the expectation of gender in the crime fiction genre. By setting their novels in contemporary society, they reflect a range of social and political issues through the lens of a female protagonist. By closely examining the female characters, all journalists, in Val McDermid’s Lindsay Gordon series; Denise Mina’s Paddy Meehan series; Anna Smith’s books about Rosie Gilmour; and Liza Marklund’s books about Annika Bengzton, I explore the issue of gender through these writers’ perspectives and also draw parallels between their societies. I document the influence of these writers on my own practice-based research, a novel, The Invisible Chains, set in post-Referendum Scotland. The thesis will examine and define the role of the female protagonist, offer a feminist reading of contemporary crime fiction, and investigate how the rise of human trafficking, the problem of domestic abuse in Scotland and society’s changing attitudes and values are reflected in contemporary crime novels, before discussing the narrative structures and techniques employed in the writing of The Invisible Chains. This novel allows us to consider the role of women in a contemporary and progressive society where women hold many senior positions in public life and examine whether they manage successfully to challenge traditional patriarchal hierarchies. The narrative is split between journalist Megan Ross, The Girl, a victim of human trafficking, and Trudy, who is being domestically abused, thus pulling together the themes of the critical genesis in the creative work. By focusing on the protagonist, the victims and raising awareness of human trafficking and domestic abuse, The Invisible Chains, an original creative work, reflects a contemporary society’s changing attitudes, problems and values.
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Nordmark, Ida. "Grannspråksundervisning i gymnasieskolan : Fyra svensklärares uppfattning om momentet grannspråk." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för svenska språket (SV), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-68048.
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During their education all pupils in Swedish upper secondary school are supposed tocome into contact with some teaching in the neighbouring languages, Danish and Norwegian.The aim of this study is to investigate with the aid of interviews ho fouractive upper secondary school teachers perceive the neighbouring languages in terms ofthe central questions of teaching and learning: How? What? and Why? The studyfocuses on the course Swedish 2, a subject taught by the four teachers. The result showsthat the teachers have different perceptions of the neighbouring language module andthat there are different reasons underlying this. The teachers’ own training in this varies,and this affects their own outlook on this module in the Swedish 2 course, so that lessteaching is devoted to the module. Time is another factor that makes teachers feel thatthe neighbouring language module is a less important part of the teaching in Swedish.The teachers’ perceptions of the neighbouring languages can be viewed as both positiveand negative. The perceptions in this study are based on the informants’ experience andpersonal preferences.
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Vallsten, Diana. "Ensamheter och gemenskaper : Läsningar av det moderna genombrottets litteratur." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-185601.
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In this essay I perform readings of five influential literary works of the Modern Breakthrough in Nordic literature: Et dukkehjem (1879) by Henrik Ibsen, Niels Lyhne (1880) by Jens Peter Jacobsen, Barndomsvänner (1886) by Karl August Tavaststjerna, Fru Marianne (1887) by Victoria Benedictsson, and Ensam (1903) by August Strindberg. My aim is to identify and analyze discourses of loneliness and community. A central theme, both in this literature and in the contemporary society, is the problematization of gender roles. I find that the literature questions the polarization of gender roles through its depiction of marital relationships. At the same time, alternative communities are often portrayed as more fallible than those of marriage and nuclear family, forming discourses where marriage and nuclear family are prioritized over alternative communities – with a possible exception of national community. This paradoxical existence of modernity highlights the complexity of societal development: societal change requires not only political reforms but also change within subjects. The paradoxicality can be viewed as a manifestation of inner struggles. Finally, I reflect upon the endeavor to obtain entity that I find in these literary works. As connections between nature, culture and kinship, as well as between the past, the present and the future are formulated, issues of power/powerlessness and responsibility are brought into question. I propose further studies on these themes in relation to the emergence of nationalism, racial biology and fascism in 19th and 20th centuries, in order to deepen the understanding of the structure and the conditions of nationalism, racial biology and fascism in this context.
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Hartsell, Bradley. "Projecting Culture Through Literary Exportation: How Imitation in Scandinavian Crime Fiction Reveals Regional Mores." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3323.
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This thesis reexamines the beginnings of Swedish hardboiled crime literature, in part tracking its lineage to American culture and unpacking Swedish identity. Following the introduction, the second chapter asserts how this genre began as a form of escapism, specifically in Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö’s Roseanna. The third chapter compares predecessor Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep with Roseanna, and how Sweden’s greater gender tolerance significantly outshining America’s is reflected in literature. The fourth chapter examines how Henning Mankell’s novels fail to fully accept Sweden’s complicity in neo-Nazism as an active component of Swedish identity. The final chapter reveals Helene Tursten’s Detective Inspector Huss engaging with gender and racial relations in unique ways, while also releasing the suppressive qualities found in the Swedish identity post-war. Therefore, this thesis will better contextualize the onset of the genre, and how its lineage reflects the fruits and the damages alike in the Swedish identity.
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Anastasiadis, Athanasios. "Der Norden im Süden Kostantinos Chatzopoulos (1868 - 1920) als Übersetzer deutscher Literatur." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2007. http://d-nb.info/990745279/04.
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Marszałek, Magdalena. "Der russische Norden in der polnischen Literatur : von Adam Mickiewicz zu Mariusz Wilk." Universität Potsdam, 2011. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5740/.
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Lindroth, Ulrika. "Natur als Kulisse? : Eine ökokritische Untersuchung des Schweden-Krimis Totenleuchten von Klara Nordin." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-62677.
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This essay examines the novel Totenleuchten (2014) written by a German author under the pseudonym Klara Nordin. The main question in the essay is which functions the nature has in addition to the in popular literature so common function as merely a back drop to the plot. It shows that the nature’s primary function is to distinguish and create a difference and a hierarchy between the identities of the three groups of people that occur: samis, northswedes and southswedes. The nature also has a part in the travelogue elements that occur, that close to reality describe places, restaurants and food from the region of Lappland.
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Kochanek, Piotr. "Die Vorstellung vom Norden und der Eurozentrism : eine Auswertung der patristischen und mittelalterlichen Literatur /." Mainz : P. von Zabern, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41013734s.
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Habilitationsschrift--Fachbereich Katholische Theologie--Mainz--Johannes Gutenberg-Universität. Titre de soutenance : Das Bild des Nordens in der patristisch-mittelalterlichen Literatur und die Entwicklung des Eurozentrismus.Bibliogr. p. 499-587.
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Ingvarsson, Jonas. "Bo G Jansson, Postmodernism och metafiktion i Norden. Hallgren & Fallgren Studieförlag AB. Uppsala 1996." Uppsala : Svenska Litteratursällskapet, 1997. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-201071.
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Almeida, António Xavier Pinto. "A importância do exercício nórdico na prevenção de lesões nos isquiotibiais no futebol masculino: revisão de literatura." Bachelor's thesis, [s.n.], 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10284/7021.
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Projeto de Graduação apresentado à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Licenciado em FisioterapiaObjetivo: Perceber a influência do exercício nórdico na prevenção de lesões nos isquiotibiais no futebol masculino. Metodologia: Foi realizada uma pesquisa computorizada nas bases de dados PubMed, Cochrane e PEDro para identificar estudos randomizados que incluíssem o exercício nórdico e o relacionassem com treino preventivo de lesões isquiotibiais no futebol masculino. Resultados: Foram incluídos 3 estudos, com uma classificação média de 5,66 na escala de PEDro, numa amostra total de 1553 atletas, em que a amostra mínima foi de 32 e a máxima de 942 participantes. Os 3 artigos analisados, mostram que o exercício nórdico reduziu a incidência de lesão nos grupos de intervenção. Conclusão: O exercício nórdico reduz a probabilidade de lesão dos isquiotibiais no futebol.
Objective: Influence of nordic exercise on the prevention of hamstring injuries in men's soccer. Methodology: A computerized research was made in PubMed, Cochrane and PEDro for identification randomized studies that included nordic exercise and related it with preventive training of hamstring injuries in men’s soccer. Results: Three trials were included, with an average score of 5.66 on the PEDro scale, with a total sample of 1553 athletes, the minimum sample was 32 and the maximum of 942 participants. The three papers analyzed, show that nordic exercise reduced the incidence of injurys in the intervention groups. Conclusion: Nordic exercise reduces the probability of hamstring injury in soccer.
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Voges, Edmund. "Briefe aus dem Norden - Verhandlungen mit dem Norden : Konstruktionen einer iberischen Moderne bei Ángel Ganivet und Josep Pla /." Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] : Lang, 2004. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/377402443.pdf.
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Johannesson, Kurt. "Mats Malm, Minervas äpple. Om diktsyn, tolkning och bildspråk inom nordisk göticism. Brutus Östlings Bokförlag Symposion, Stockholm/Stehag 1996." Uppsala universitet, Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, 1998. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-200914.
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Moore, Conner Furie. "Antinatalist Sexual Dissidence in Decadent Literature." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1626867836253464.
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Perkins, Bethany. ""In a roundabout way" evasive, oblique and indirect discourse in Allen Tate, Tennessee Williams and Lewis Nordan /." Greensboro, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007. http://libres.uncg.edu/edocs/etd/1494Perkins/umi-uncg-1494.pdf.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 3, 2008). Directed by Scott Romine; submitted to the Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-214).
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Alsina, Cristina. ""This is just a story": la ficción como verdad en la obra de Tim O'Brien." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673476.
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Esta tesis analiza la relación entre ficción y efectos de verdad en la obra del novelista contemporáneo Tim O'Brien y examina la reflexión implícita en dicha obra en torno al concepto de verdad. Pondera, además, el efecto distorsionador que la noción objetivista de "verdad" ha tenido sobre la recepción de dicha obra. Por último, y partiendo del "giro lingüístico" que ha tenido lugar en la filosofía analítica del siglo XX, propone una interpretación alternativa a la luz de la semántica de los mundos posibles.
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Miquel, Baldellou Marta. "Symbolic transitions as modalities of aging: intertextuality in the life and works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Edgar Allan Poe." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Lleida, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/385365.
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L’escriptor nord-americà del segle dinou Edgar Allan Poe va publicar una sèrie de crítiques literàries de les obres de l’autor victorià Edward Bulwer-Lytton que evidencien el profund coneixement que Poe tenia d’algunes de les novel·les de Bulwer-Lytton. Atesos aquests indicis preliminars d’intertextualitat, aquesta tesi doctoral s’insereix dins el marc teòric de la literatura comparada i, en concret, dels estudis literaris transatlàntics, que es focalitzen en la influència històrica existent entre la literatura britànica i la literatura nord-americana anys després de la guerra d’independència nord-americana, així com en el marc teòric dels estudis biogràfics i dels estudis d’envelliment, especialment basats en la premissa segons la qual les percepcions d’envelliment es troben condicionades culturalment. Prenent en consideració aquests marcs teòrics, aquesta tesi doctoral té com a objectiu identificar les intertextualitats existents en les obres literàries de Poe i Bulwer-Lytton, i detectar les transicions simbòliques comunes a les vides dels autors des de la seva joventut fins als seus últims anys de vida, i que es reflecteixen en les seves ficcions, amb el propòsit final de desxifrar les diferents modalitats d’envelliment que cada autor va demostrar com a simptomàtiques de les seves respectives cultures i com a resultat de les seves circumstàncies personals.El escritor norteamericano decimonónico Edgar Allan Poe publicó una serie de críticas literarias de las obras del autor victoriano Edward Bulwer-Lytton que evidencian el profundo conocimiento que Poe tenía de algunas de las novelas de Bulwer-Lytton. Dados estos indicios preliminares de intertextualidad, esta tesis doctoral se insiere dentro del marco teórico de la literatura comparada y, en concreto, de los estudios literarios transatlánticos, que se focalizan en la influencia histórica existente entre la literatura británica y la literatura norteamericana años después de la guerra de independencia norteamericana, así como en el marco teórico de los estudios biográficos y de los estudios del envejecimiento, especialmente basados en la premisa según la que las percepciones de envejecimiento se encuentran condicionadas culturalmente. Tomando en consideración estos marcos teóricos, esta tesis doctoral tiene como objetivo identificar las intertextualidades existentes en las obras literarias de Poe y Bulwer-Lytton, y detectar las transiciones simbólicas comunes en las vidas de los autores desde su juventud hasta sus últimos años de vida, y que se reflejan en sus ficciones, con el propósito final de descifrar las diferentes modalidades de envejecimiento que cada autor demostró como sintomáticas de sus respectivas culturas y como resultado de sus circunstancias personales.
The nineteenth-century American writer Edgar Allan Poe published a series of reviews of the literary works of the Victorian writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton that evince that Poe was particularly well-acquainted with some of Bulwer-Lytton’s novels. Given these preliminary signs of intertextuality, this doctoral thesis is grounded within the theoretical framework of comparative literature, and particularly, of transatlantic literary studies, which focus on the historical influence existing between British and American literature years after the American War of Independence, as well as the theoretical framework of biographical studies and aging studies, being especially based on the premise that the perceptions of aging are culturally conditioned. Taking into consideration these theoretical frameworks, this doctoral thesis aims to identify the intertextualities existing in the literary works of Poe and Bulwer-Lytton, and detect shared symbolic transitions in the lives of both authors from their youth until their late years, and which are reflected in their fictions, with the ultimate purpose of decoding the different modalities of aging that each author displayed as symptomatic of their respective cultures and as a result of their personal circumstances.
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Sjöberg, Lena. "Nordisk diakoniforskning 2015 - 2019 : Kunskapsläge och forskningssammanhang." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-413368.
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Diaconia research in the Nordic countries 2015-2019 This master thesis is a systematic literature review of the field of diaconal research in the Nordic countries during the period 2015 - 2019. I have conducted a Mixed Methods Research Synthesis on 134 selected titles, corresponding to the search protocol. Diaconia is sometimes defined as the social work or social care performed by the Christian church, but as my report shows, the concept of Diaconia can be defined in several ways, from narrow to wide delimitations. As a research field, Diaconia research is not clearly defined. One of the findings of my study is that Diaconia research draws from and contributes to ecclesiology, sociology and psychology of religion, systematic theology, church history and patristic studies. The main Nordic research site for diaconal studies is VID Specialized University in Norway. Other major contributors to the field are Uppsala University (CRS), Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University, University of Eastern Finland and MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society. My report shows recent developments in the theology of Diaconia, and makes visible differences and similarities in the understanding of the Deacon’s office in the Nordic majority churches. Deacons in Finland, Norway and Sweden struggle with similar challenges of mandate and responsibilities, which is shown by comparison between several referenced studies. These challenges appear to be connected to gender, a low over all appreciation of social care in society and church alike, and not the least, outdated theological interpretations of the Deacon’s office as humble or lowly service. Contributions from an international research project at University of Eastern Finland are aiming to correct some of these misunderstandings by retranslating texts from the patristic era. All in all, the referenced studies show, that diaconal works in the Nordic countries are making important contributions to society, expanding beyond the concept of care, engaging in theological development, social innovation, social mobilisation and interreligious cooperation. My study makes a theoretical contribution by adapting the concentric model for Diakonia developed by Erik Blennberger (1946 – 2018), based on this empirical finding.
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Hansson-de, Laage de Meux Maria. "Le Surnaturel en question. Désir d’émancipation chez les femmes de lettres de la Percée moderne suédoise." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL179.
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Dans les années 1880, les écrivains de la Percée moderne prônent une littérature réaliste, en phase avec son époque. Les femmes de lettres y ont une place prédominante, leurs pièces de théâtre, surtout, sont souvent couronnées de succès. Aujourd'hui encore, Anne Charlotte Leffler, Victoria Benedictsson et Selma Lagerlöf jouissent d'une réelle notoriété. Pourtant, leurs œuvres et leur statut ont sans cesse été remis en question. Comment comprendre dans ces conditions la présence du folklore dans des œuvres réalistes ? Tout en restant dans la sphère de l'irrationnel, ces écrivaines ont abordé des thèmes communs à leur époque découlant de leur expérience de femme, comme les lacunes de l'éducation sexuelle, l'impossibilité de suivre sa vocation, l'enfermement dans le mariage. L'emploi du surnaturel ne leur a-t-il pas permis de s'adapter à une norme et de pratiquer un genre littéraire, proche du conte, compatible avec l'idée que les critiques se faisaient des lettres féminines ? Certes, leur approche ne constitue pas un mouvement, encore moins une école, mais elle témoigne d'une tendance partagée à employer esthétiquement le surnaturel pour traiter les débats modernes sur les droits des femmes, frayant de la sorte un passage vers les thématiques du folkhem à venir, et inscrivant le folklore dans une vision utopique de la femmeIn the 1880s, the writers of the Modern Breakthrough advocated a literature of realism attuned to their time. Female writers have a prominent place within this group and their plays were often successful. Even today, women like Anne Charlotte Leffler, Victoria Benedictsson and Selma Lagerlöf are recognized as major artists. Yet their works and status have been constantly questioned. How should the presence of folklore in realistic works be understood under these conditions? By referring to the specifically feminine problems of the gaps in sexual education, the impossibility of following one's vocation and confinement to marriage, through the creatures of Scandinavian folklore, the female writers remain in the sphere of the irrational. Does the use of the supernatural allow them to adapt to norms and practice a literary genre, close to fairy tales, compatible with the ideas that critics have of their gender? It is not a movement, let alone a school, but a tendency for some female writers to aesthetically assimilate the supernatural and modern debates on the rights of women, spawning a passage to the folkhem to come, and inscribing folklore within a feminine utopian vision
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Armengol, Carrera José María. "Gendering Men: Theorizing Masculinities in American Culture and Literature." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/1665.
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This thesis attempts to "gender" men by theorizing masculinities in American culture and literature. It tries to demonstrate that (white heterosexual) men, like women, are also gendered beings; that they have, therefore, undergone specific social, cultural, and historical gendering processes; and that, in contemporary American culture, such gendering processes play a key role in men's lives as well as their literary representations. Focusing on masculinity as a specific political and social construction, rather than a universal and immutable entity, the study aims, ultimately, to prove that what was socially formed might be socially and culturally re-formed as well. These main theses are developed throughout two main parts and five different chapters. Whereas Part I (chapters 1-2) tries to offer a general theoretical introduction to American studies of masculinities, in general, and to the analysis of white heterosexual masculinity, the focus of this study, in particular, Part II (chapters 3-5) applies an interdisciplinary corpus of masculinity studies (formed by sociology, psychology and psychoanalysis, anthropology, philosophy, history, literary theory and literature, etc.) to prove and analyze the influence of masculinity on the construction of emotions and violence in contemporary American culture and literature. These two topics have been selected considering their special relevance, as the thesis illustrates, to contemporary American culture, in general, and masculinity scholarship, in particular.
Trying to offer a theoretical introduction to masculinity studies in the United States, Chapter 1 begins exploring the origins and development of these studies. The chapter acknowledges as well the influence of feminism, which can and should be embraced by both women and men, on the study of masculinity, and concludes by pointing to the latest trends of masculinity studies in the United States.
Chapter 2 goes on to reconcile feminist politics with the deconstructive analysis of masculinity's internal contradictions. It posits that it is no longer clear that feminist theory should rely on notions of fixed identity in order to go on with politics. Instead, it explores the new political possibilities that might emerge from a radical critique of masculine identity.
Rethinking the subject of emotions, chapter 3 shows how the exclusive association of emotions with femininity is a socio-historical construction which might, therefore, be questioned and changed. Focus is thus given to the links between masculinity and emotion in American culture, in order to analyze the political potential of profeminist men's emotions to transform masculinities and gender relations. It is argued that emotion plays a central role in profeminist men's socio-political struggles against gender inequality, as their numerous campaigns against domestic violence or their increasing involvement in childcare, for example, are showing.
Chapter 4 demonstrates how cultural and literary representations of masculinity are particularly relevant to the analysis of the social and political construction of masculinities. Offering a general introduction to studies of American literary masculinities, the chapter explores the origins, development, and critical possibilities of this innovative research field. As is argued, revisiting American literature from a men's studies perspective might help question patriarchal notions of masculinities and look for new, alternative, non-oppressive patterns of manhood.
Most of these theoretical arguments about literary masculinities are developed and exemplified in chapter 5, which incorporates literature into the discussion of masculinity and violence in American culture. Crossing the divide between "reality" and "fiction," then, chapter 5 analyzes the social and literary construction of male violence. Even though the connection between masculinity and violence seems deeply ingrained in the cultural and literary history of the U.S., chapter 5 concludes that what was culturally constructed might, hopefully, be culturally de-constructed, too, and that American literature could play an important role in this de-construction.
Esta tesis intenta hacer el género visible a los hombres, teorizando las masculinidades en la cultura y literatura de los Estados Unidos. Se pretende demostrar que los hombres (blancos y heterosexuales), al igual que las mujeres, están dotados de un género específico; que están, por tanto, sometidos a procesos de adquisición de género social, cultural e históricamente específicos; y que, en la cultura estadounidense actual, dichos procesos de adquisición de género juegan un papel fundamental en las vidas cotidianas de los hombres así como sus representaciones literarias. Centrándose en la masculinidad como una construcción política y social específica, antes que una entidad universal e inmutable, el estudio procura, en última instancia, demostrar que lo que fue formado socialmente puede ser igualmente re-formado social y culturalmente.
Estas tesis generales son desarrolladas a lo largo de dos partes principales y cinco capítulos diferentes. Mientras que la primera parte (capítulos 1-2) intenta ofrecer una introducción general a los estudios estadounidenses sobre masculinidades, en general, y al análisis de la masculinidad blanca y heterosexual, el foco de este estudio, en particular, la segunda parte (capítulos 3-5) aplica un corpus interdisciplinario de estudios de las masculinidades (formado por la sociología, psicología y psicoanálisis, antropología, filosofía, historia, teoría literaria y literatura, etc.) al análisis de la influencia de la masculinidad en la construcción de las emociones y la violencia en la cultura y literatura estadounidenses contemporáneas. Estos dos temas han sido seleccionados considerando su especial relevancia, como la tesis ilustra, para la cultura americana contemporánea, en general, y los estudios de la masculinidad, en concreto.
Mientras que el capítulo 1 ofrece una visión panorámica de los estudios norteamericanos de las masculinidades, explorando sus orígenes y desarrollo, el capítulo 2 explora las nuevas tendencias de los estudios de la masculinidad, intentando reconciliar la política feminista con el análisis deconstructivista de las contradicciones internas de la masculinidad. El capítulo 3 procede a estudiar los vínculos entre la masculinidad y las emociones en la cultura americana, con el fin de analizar el potencial político de las emociones de los varones pro-feministas para transformar las masculinidades y las relaciones de género. Si el capítulo 4 proporciona una introducción teórica a los estudios de las masculinidades literarias estadounidenses, el capítulo 5 aplica los estudios de la masculinidad al análisis de la violencia masculina en la cultura y literatura de los Estados Unidos. Aunque la conexión entre masculinidad y violencia parece estar profundamente enraizada en la cultura norteamericana, el capítulo 5 concluye que lo que fue construido culturalmente puede ser también de-construido, y que la literatura norteamericana podría jugar un papel fundamental en dicha deconstrucción.
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Norquest, Christine. "“The endless roar in which we live”: the figure of noise in nineteenth-century U.S. literature." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6821.
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My dissertation, The Endless Roar in which We Live: The Figure of Noise in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Fiction is the first extended study that locates an intersection between sound studies and literary studies in order to examine noise as it defines spaces and places, and the characters that live and work in them, in American literature from the second half of the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth century. I evaluate noise in a sampling of American fiction, and consider how the imagined sounds of fiction echo nineteenth-century soundscapes and underscore contemporary discernment of noises – and sometimes the lack of noises – in the national consciousness. I consider the street noise that the upper classes wished away, the factory noise that so many women workers spent a lifetime hearing, and the resounding noise of the United States’ expansion westward.
Conversely, I also consider how authors and characters respond to the noises that penetrate their ears and create their soundscapes. Together, these considerations shape my argument that sounds help to construct and characterize localities, just as certain places construct particular sounds. Moreover, however, I argue that noise creates spaces wherein identities – such as those of gender, class, and ethnicity – also often tied to place, are discovered, defined, and challenged. In many ways, classifications of noise are subjective and varied, depending on who makes and who hears the noise, where and why the noise is produced, and how and by whom is the noise interpreted. Considering noise as malleable and interpretable based on context allows me to most effectively examine noise as a facilitator of identity formation.
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López, Peña Laura. "Beyond the Walls-Potentiality Aborted. The Politics of Intersubjective Universalism in Herman Melville’s Clarel." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/128332.
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This dissertation argues that Herman Melville’s Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) is a universalist poem which analyzes the necessity, political potentiality, and challenges of intersubjectivity to the creation of more democratic human relationships beyond the walls of individualism and of traditional communities such as those organized around the notions of nation-state, ‘race’, culture, religious affiliation, or sexual identities. My argument is that, in Clarel, Melville conceives what I have termed ‘intersubjective universalism’ as an ethicopolitical process subjected to the potentialities and limitations of those who may either develop or neutralize it: human beings conditioned by their fears, egocentric behaviors, and ultimately, by their imperfect, limited, human nature. In this respect, Clarel, I claim, gives continuity to Melville’s recurrent exploration of the dangers, beauties, and interlacing of the (im)possibilities of intersubjectivity, universalism, and democracy, always torn between the democratizing potentiality the author located in interpersonal relationships and the bleak realization that human beings might never materialize such democratic project. My dissertation is divided into two chapters, which correspond to the two principal axes of my study: the defense and articulation of the intersubjective universalism I conceive in Melville’s Clarel from a theoretical perspective, on the one hand, and my interpretation of Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land as a universalist poem, representative of Herman Melville’s political literary project, on the other. In order to justify my defense of Clarel as a universalist poem, my dissertation incorporates the points of view of contemporary theorists such as Hannah Arendt, Etienne Balibar, Zygmunt Bauman, Martin Buber, Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Ernesto Laclau, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Nancy, Martha Nussbaum, and Linda Zerilli, among others, whose analyses on community, intersubjectivity, interpersonal relationships, global ethics, and universalism, from the perspectives of poststructuralism, sociology, philosophy, or politics, have been enabling to my own work.Esta tesis doctoral analiza el caso de "Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876)" , un poema universalista de Herman Melville, que analiza la necesidad, el potencial politico, y los desafíos de la intersubjetividad para el desarrollo de relaciones humanas más democráticas fuera de los muros del individualismo y de comunidades tradicionales organizadas sobre nociones como estado-nación, “raza”, cultura, afiliación religiosa, o identidades sexuales. Mi argumento es que, en Clarel, Melville concibe lo que he llamado “universalismo intersubjetivo” como un proceso eticopolítico sujeto al potencial y a las limitaciones de aquellos que pueden tanto desarrollarlo como neutralizarlo: seres humanos condicionados por sus miedos, comportamientos egocéntricos y, últimamente, por su imperfecta y limitada naturaleza humana. En este sentido, mi tesis argumenta que Clarel da continuidad a la exploración recurrente de Melville de los peligros, las bellezas, y las interconexiones de las (im)posibilidades de la intersubjetividad, el universalismo, y la democracia. Estas exploraciones están divididas entre el potencial democratizador que el autor situaba en las relaciones interpersonales y en la triste conciencia de que los seres humanos quizás nunca materializarían tal proyecto democrático. Mi tesis se divide en dos capítulos, que corresponden a los dos ejes principales de mi estudio: la defensa y la articulación del universalismo intersubjetivo que concibo en el poema de Melville Clarel desde un punto de vista teórico, por un lado, y mi interpretación de Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land como poema universalista, representativo del proyecto político literario de Herman Melville, por otro lado. Con tal de justificar mi defensa de Clarel como poema universalista, esta tesis doctoral incorpora los puntos de vista de teóricos contemporáneos como Hannah Arendt, Etienne Balibar, Zygmunt Bauman, Martin Buber, Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Ernesto Laclau, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Nancy, Martha Nussbaum, y Linda Zerilli, entre otros, cuyos análisis sobre comunidad, intersubjectividad, relaciones interpersonales, ética global, y universalismo, desde las perspectivas del postestructuralismo, la sociología, la filosofía, y la política, fundamentan mi propio trabajo.
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Williams, Anna. "Nordisk kvinnolitteraturhistoria. Del 1: I Guds namn 1000–1800. Del 2: Fadershuset 1800-talet. Red. Elisabeth Møller Jensen m.fl. Höganäs 1993. Del 3: Vida världen 1900–1960. Red. Elisabeth Møller Jensen, Ebba Witt-Brattström m.fl. Höganäs 1996." Uppsala universitet, Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, 1997. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-30322.
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Boyd, Jane Jennifer Jones. "Frank Norris spatial form and narrative time /." Access abstract and link to full text, 1990. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.library.utulsa.edu/dissertations/fullcit/9035645.
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Perk, Godelinde Gertrude. "Julian, God, and the Art of Storytelling : A Narrative Analysis of the Works of Julian of Norwich." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-126401.
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This study offers a narrative comparison of A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love, the two texts created by the first known English woman writer, Julian of Norwich (c. 1343 – c. 1416). It focuses Julian as a storyteller rather than as a theologian, mystic or visionary, concentrating particular on her narrative strategies, that is, on the strategic use of formal narrative features and the changes in these between Vision and Revelation. This dissertation therefore examines Vision and Revelation in terms of three narrative features: plot, characterization and perspective or point of view (termed ‘focalization’ here). These three narrative features are brought into dialogue with Julian’s theology. Three analytical angles help shed more light on Julian’s innovative use of these structures in her works: modern narratology, Middle English literary theory and practice, and the texts’ own literary concepts and self-referential comments. Two central narratological methods are used throughout. The first is to make a distinction between narrator Julian, who tells about the events, and character Julian, who experiences the events. The second is distinguishing several hermeneutic layers or levels of signification in a narrative. Following narratologist Mieke Bal, this discussion distinguishes between fabula (the raw material), story (the content of the text) and text (the linguistic construct). On the basis of this exploration, this study argues that Revelation includes, expands and transforms the narrative structures of Vision, and thereby consciously draws more attention to the structures themselves. At the same time, however, within Revelation a similar narrative reshaping can be seen as between Vision and Revelation. That is, Revelation reshapes its own new narrative structures, in order to hint at God’s greater structure and envelop its own in His. This greatest structure, however, is only glimpsed. As regards these narrative structures, this study argues that linear finite narrative desire driving the plot of Vision is taken up into an endless, greater narrative desire in Revelation, creating a circular plot. At the same time, narrator Julian constructs an omnitemporal, non-sequential plot. Moreover, this analysis shows that the focalization already found in Vision is made more demonstrative in Revelation, while the narrator directs this gaze more towards the apophatic and what is always hidden. Finally, this study explores how many of the characters from Vision are made twofold in Revelation, while Revelation at the same time foreshadows the union this doubleness will achieve at the end of time. Revelation, in short, utilizes Vision’s structures and its own to implode structure. Julian’s poetics thus is one of continuous developing and enveloping, which allows her to depict God, herself and the reader as characters in each other’s narratives and as participating in each other’s storytelling: she authorizes her own story by making it God’s and the reader’s as well. This more conscious structuring and simultaneous reshaping of the new structure in Revelation forms Julian’s most innovative narrative strategy and the most striking interaction between her art and theology: narrator Julian depicts her own storytelling as simultaneously participating in that of God and foreshadowing God’s ultimate storytelling at the end of time.
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von, Bergen Louise. "Nordisk teater i Montevideo : Kontextrelaterad reception av Henrik Ibsen och August Strindberg." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och idéhistoria, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-1210.
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The primary purpose of this dissertation is to study the dialogue between the Scandinavian drama and the Uruguayan theatre; how drama from Scandinavia has been received in the Río de la Plata during the last hundred years; how it has been adapted and activated to be meaningful to the audience; how it has been integrated within the Uruguayan theatre and society and how the play changes with that new dialogue. As this is the first study of Scandinavian plays in Uruguay a secondary purpose is to document what has been put on stage; fifty-three productions, ninety percent of which were plays by Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg. The study is organized in three parts: a) a historical and sociological description of the Uruguayan society and its theatre; b) a presentation of Scandinavian drama, staging of Scandinavian theatre and its reception during the twentieth century; c) a comparative analysis of the reception in its widest sense at different periods of eleven productions of two dramas by Ibsen and one by Strindberg. The work is thus part of a tradition of the history of reception. According to the hermeneutic method, the reading is done from the horizon of expectation at the time of the staging interwined with today’s perspective. I follow the Argentinean investigator of theatre Osvaldo Pellettieri’s definition of the concept “reception”: passive reception by the public; reproductive reception, reception including translation and criticism; productive reception, creative reception expressed as staging or as a text that is evidently influenced by another text. In studying the process from the source text of a play to the reception of a performance, the four steps that Patrice Pavis has pointed out have been followed: 1) the interidiomatic translation of the text, 2) the translation of the text into a manuscript as base for a production 3) the staging and 4) the performance as received by the public. More emphasis is put on the linguistic aspect of the reception and reconstruction than is generally the case in theatre research, as this study lies on the border between literature and theatre studies. Do the Scandinavian plays fall into the topics of the day, politically, socially, culturally and aesthetically? Ibsen’s and Strindberg’s dramatic production have drawn the attention of Uruguayan critics since 1894, four years before the public had the opportunity to see a play on stage in Montevideo. Their contents and dramatic aesthetics were evaluated and we can also see how their ideas are discussed and integrated in the social debate on womens’ rights and the economic consequences of divorce. In order to see where the critics put their emphasis, the following aspects were considered: the author, the plot and its actuality, the audience, the translation, the direction, the scenography, the acting, the scenery and the music. The emphasis and interest of the critics have changed during this period of a hundred year. At the turn of the century 1900 they focused on the plot, the protagonist and also put a lot of emphasis on the public’s reactions. A realistic interpretation was appreciated but its content was not related to the situation in the surrounding society. During the first half of last century we only find visiting companies from Europe playing the Scandinavian dramatists. At first they introduced Ibsen and later Strindberg to the public in Montevideo via performances made by European actors for a European public. The Montevidean public was sometimes amazed by the new theatrical form and stunned by the contents of the play, but, according to the critics, the spectators eventually accepted it all and thus widened their horizon. There is a great contrast in connection with the distribution of the critics' interests from the fifties onwards. The theme and its actuality were discussed, the author got a lot of space as did the director and the actors. The audience’s reaction was seldom commented upon, nor the scenography. Towards the end of the century the direction, the scenography and the scenery drew the critics’ attention on behalf of the actors, but the theme and its actuality preserved their interest. In the late forties the Uruguayan theatre had developed a theatre system. Scandinavian plays were now staged by native theatre groups and can be considered as integrated within the Uruguayan cultural and social system. We can see how the Scandinavian theatre performances accompanied theatre life in Montevideo; its rise during the fifties and sixties, its fall during the dictatorship of the seventies, its resurrection and its present condition, more free, more open and difficult to define in a few words. The last three chapters are a study of A doll’s House, An Enemy of the People and Creditors in Montevideo. It is a more detailed analysis of the translation of the texts, the transposition to the stage, how the performances relate to the cultural, social and political context and how they are received by the critics. A comparative study shows how the directors and the theatregroups have searched for different solutions to represent the plays. It shows great differences in the realization, differences that depend on the varying conditions of the groups; if they are part of the official theatre or an independent group, their political and aesthetical orientation, their intentions and artistic level and the social context in which the staging takes part.
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Brantley, Dana Michelle. "Fluid Sexualities in Frank Norris's McTeague." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23190.
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Frank Norris's novel McTeague can be read as an intense reflection on the limitations of language surrounding fluid sexualities in late-nineteenth century America. Through a queer theoretical lens, I examine the ways in which Norris collapses his characters and narrative in order to demonstrate those limits. Trina and McTeague suffer acutely from their inability to articulate their sexualities, and the narrator of the novel does little to compensate for the characters\' failure to speak. The novel, which is a collection of broken genres, further exposes the fact that various kinds of rigid narrative forms cannot sufficiently frame or articulate fluid sexualities. Through character, narrative, and genre breakdown, Norris reflects how the nineteenth century's lack of language regarding those who occupy a variety of sexualities can tear people and language apart.Master of Arts
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Bagunyà, Costes Borja. "Restitucions de l’experiència en la narrativa metaficcional angloamericana (1955-1973)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/300588.
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Aquesta investigació organitza una lectura crítica de les obres més importants de la narrativa metaficcional angloamericana des de la pregunta per la crisi de l’experiència i la seva relació amb la crisi del relat que Walter Benjamin i Theodor W. Adorno formulen al llarg de la primera meitat del segle XX. Aquesta aproximació conceptual analitza un corpus extens de narrativa metaficcional postmoderna com a resposta i tematització d’aquesta crisi i com a proposta de restitució de figures de totalitat en relació a les quals seguir mantenint la possibilitat de produir doblement un món experienciable i un subjecte d’aquesta experiència. D’aquesta manera, en les obres de Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, John Fowles, Gilbert Sorrentino i Kurt Vonnegut Jr., entre d’altres, es fa evident una continuïtat en l’evolució de la narrativa en el període analitzat en relació a les diverses figures que es proposen temptativament per a restituir una experiència en crisi.This research analyzes the most representative works of angloamerican metafictional narrative from the point of view of experience. Taking the relation between the crisis of experience and the crisis of narration as Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno discussed it on their work, this research offers a critical interpretation of postmodern metafiction, first, as a clear tematization of this crisis and, second, as a series of attempts to reconstitute, though problematically, the conditions that makes a dialectical and formative notion of experience possible. Hence, the works of Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, John Fowles, Gilbert Sorrentino and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., among others, show an evident continuity in the way the narrative of the period of time studied evolves in relation to the different figures offered as a temporary restitution of an experience in crisis.
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Burbridge, Brent E. "Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS. 278: Embodying Community and Authority in Late Medieval Norwich." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35095.
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Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS. 278 is an early-fourteenth-century trilingual manuscript of the Psalms from Norwich Cathedral Priory, an urban cathedral church staffed by Benedictine monks. This manuscript is notable because it contains one of six Middle English Metrical Psalters, the earliest Middle English translation of the Psalms, as well as a full Anglo-Norman Oxford Psalter, the most popular French translation of the Psalms in late medieval England. While the Middle English Metrical Psalter is a remarkable and understudied text in and of itself, the Metrical Psalter of CCC 278 is even more interesting because of its monastic provenance and innovative layout.
This thesis explores the questions of why a monastic institution would produce a manuscript of two complete, prominently displayed, vernacular Psalters with only highly abbreviated Latin textual references; what sociolinguistic and political forces drove the production of this innovative manuscript; and how the Middle English Metrical Psalter in particular was read, and by whom. Because there are no annotations, colophon, prologue or external documentation to provide clues to either the intended or actual use of the manuscript by the Priory monks, this thesis undertakes a detailed historicization and contextualization of the book in its urban, religious, linguistic and social settings. In addition, the lenses of community, mediation, and authority are applied, leading to the conclusion that CCC 278 and its Middle English Metrical Psalter were likely used by the monks to reach out to Norwich’s élite laity in order to form a mixed reading community around the book—a reading community controlled by the Priory.
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Berggren, Madeleine. "Didaktisk värdegrundspotential i dystopi. : Kvalitativ textanalys av Nordins trilogi." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-80119.
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Mitt syfte med undersökningen är att genomföra en kvalitativ textanalys av Sofia Nordins trilogi för att undersöka dess lämplighet att undervisa om värdegrundsfrågor i årskurs 4–6. Skolinspektionens granskning (2012) finner brister i att integrera värdegrundsuppdraget i ämnet svenska. Bland annat beror det på brister i förståelsen hos lärare kring vilka skönlitterära texter som kan användas och vad i texterna som kan ge möjlighet till undervisning. Undersökningen syftar därför till att finna lämplig text vilket genom arbetet visat sig vara dystopi. Undersökningens kvalitativa textanalys svarar mot frågeställningarna om mörker, demokrati, solidaritet och mänskliga rättigheter för att undersöka möjligheten till undervisning om värdegrunden. Analysens resultat finner goda möjligheter för trilogin att användas som ingång för värdegrundsarbete i årskurs 4–6.The aim of this paper is to make a qualitative text analysis of the trilogy by Sofia Nordin based on its possibility to teach about the fundamental values in school for grade 4-6. The Swedish School inspectorate shows in an examination (2012) that the Swedish primary school are shortcoming in the mission to teach about the fundamental values in the subject swedish. Some causes they mention are the teachers lack of understanding what sort of literature they should use, and what in the literature to use. This study is therefore aiming to find a suitable text which by the work turned out to be a dystopia. By qualitative text analysis the question at issues examines to answer the aim of this paper. They are the darkness, democracy, human rights and solidarity. In the results the paper has found a good potential for the novels to teach about the fundamental values in grade 4-6.
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Fernández, Díaz José Javier. "La otra América. Influencia de la literatura estadounidense en Roberto Bolaño." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/285532.
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Los vínculos entre la literatura estadounidense y la obra de Roberto Bolaño han sido objeto de numerosas reseñas y artículos. Sin embargo su estudio hasta la fecha no ha cristalizado en un trabajo monográfico. «La otra América: influencias de la literatura estadounidense en Roberto Bolaño» tiene entre sus objetivos construir un mapa literario que dé cuenta del diálogo entre textos y autores. El corpus de la tesis se ha extraído de las más de cien menciones explícitas a escritores y libros estadounidenses que el poeta y novelista chileno inserta en sus obras principales.
En las siguientes páginas se propone una lectura posnacional de Roberto Bolaño como marco de referencia para un estudio comparativo. Asimismo se plantea una revisión de su poética a partir de la influencia de William Burroughs y la experimental Nova Trilogy. Ambos escritores combinan la invitación al lector a unirse a su particular mitología, una común disposición del fragmento narrativo que incluye la repetición literal de elementos y la similar concepción de la obra literaria como un todo interconectado.
El análisis de los vínculos entre Bolaño y la literatura estadounidense se estructura a partir de los rasgos formales y los motivos intertextuales del escritor chileno. En primer lugar se destaca la importancia de los autores de ciencia ficción de la New Wave (Alice Sheldon, Fritz Lieber o Theodore Sturgeon) con la perspectiva que adquieren los narradores de Bolaño. Seguidamente se vincula el componente biográfico de muchas de sus novelas a la creación de álter egos y ambigüedad autobiográfica de Tropic of Cancer de Henry Miller o de On the Road de Jack Kerouac. En tercer lugar, el estilo de Bolaño se analiza explorando la oralidad como rasgo influenciado por Mark Twain y algunos de los novelistas de la generación Beat. Además se estudia cómo la prosa de Bolaño está marcada por la figura de poetas como William Carlos Williams o Ezra Pound. Uno de los rasgos menos estudiados del escritor chileno, el humor, ha sido analizado en cuarto lugar junto a los trabajos de Alfred Bierce o Hunter S. Thompson. Por último, se compara la estructura narrativa de algunas obras de Bolaño con aquellos trabajos que han merecido el calificativo de Great American Novel, clásicos como Moby Dick de Herman Melville o The adventures of Huckleberry Finn de Mark Twain y novelas del siglo XX como The crying of lot 49 de Thomas Pynchon.
Una vez revisadas las cuestiones formales, se analiza el amplio espectro que conforman los motivos de Bolaño y sus posibles intertextualidades con la narrativa estadounidense. Primeramente, se lleva a cabo una revisión crítica del pasado en Estrella distante similar a la de Slaughterhouse-Five de Kurt Vonnegut. Más adelante se descifran recurrencias temáticas para Bolaño como la enfermedad, el sexo y la literatura a través de ejemplos como la presencia de The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym de Edgar Allan Poe y At the mountains of Madness de H.P. Lovecraft en Amuleto. En un tercer epígrafe, la representación del mal, ampliamente estudiada en Bolaño, se vincula en una nueva lectura a obras como Blood Meridian de Cormac McCarthy y American Psycho de Brett Easton Ellis. Para concluir, se estudia el carácter inmaduro, casi infantil, de muchos protagonistas de novelas de Bolaño a partir de algunos de los textos mencionados y las similitudes existentes con The Catcher in the Rye de J.D. Salinger.The relationship between Roberto Bolaño’s works and the US Literature has been the target of countless articles and papers. However, academia is yet to produce a monographic study on the subject. The other America: influence of US Literature in Roberto Bolaño, aims, inter alia, to establish a literary map of the dialogue between authors and texts. The corpus, which my study is based on, comes from the more than one hundred explicit citations extracted from his most acclaimed works. In the following pages a post-national vision of Bolaño’s work is suggested as a framework for its comparative study with US Literature. I also propose a new approach to the Chilean writer’s poetics through the influence of William Burroughs and the narrative experiment of Nova Trilogy. Both writers combine a disposition of the narrative fragment, an invitation to the reader to engage with their particular mythology and a common vision for their work as a closed and inter-linked universe. The analysis has been structured using the formal aspects of Bolaño’s work and the intertextual motifs he shares with US narrative. First, I outline the importance of Science Fiction writers from the New Wave (Alice Sheldon, Fritz Lieber and Theodore Sturgeon) in the perception of Bolaño’s narrators. Second, the biographical ambiguity and the creation of the alter egos of Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road are linked with Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives. Third, Bolaño’s style is examined and compared —in its orality— with Mark Twain and some of the Beat novelists. Furthermore, it is explored how Bolaño’s prose is influenced by poets such as William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. Fourth, the humour, which is one of Bolaño’s most significant features, is researched in conjunction with the work of Alfred Bierce and Hunter S. Thompson. As a conclusion, the narrative structure of Bolaño’s novels is compared to some of those works, which have achieved the label of The Great American Novel: e.g. Moby Dick and The adventures of Huckleberry Finn and XXth century examples such as Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49.
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Schwarzer, Andrew W. "Cheering with eyes averted : businessmen and speculators in the novels of Howells, Norris and Dreiser /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9717174.
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Choquet, Marianne. "A Quest for Fulfillment: Lucy Pilgrim’s Map." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/129565.
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This composite thesis is the fruit of a marriage between the creative, imaginative, and critical aspects of writing. The overall aim of its elaboration has been the creation and critical examination of an autonomous interdependent female subject in literature. As it is a unique thesis at the University of Barcelona, and because one of its directors is Southern Cross University professor Baden Offord, the structure follows the regulations established at that institution: three-quarters of the thesis is a creative work: the novel, Lucy, Go See, a bildungsroman based on a quest. The other quarter is a critical exegesis: A Quest to Self-Construct: Lucy Pilgrim’s Map. The exegesis is concerned with self- construction as opposed to self-destruction in response to a wound. After examining the history and nature of quests and bildungsromans and situating the novel within these genres, the exegesis traces eros, voice and wound through the vulnerable territory of humanity and explores how colonization has affected personal relationships. Thus, this thesis is a creative, narrative, and critical inquiry into the value of eros, voice, and wound as instruments and articulations of agency constituted through visions of subjectivity.Esta tesis “compuesta” es el fruto de la unión entre los aspectos creativos, imaginativos y críticos de la escritura literaria. El objetivo general de su elaboración ha sido la creación y el examen crítico de un sujeto femenino, interdependiente y autónomo en la literatura. Como se trata de una tesis que nunca se había realizado en la Universidad de Barcelona, y porque uno de sus directores es profesor de la Universidad Southern Cross de Australia, la estructura se ajusta a las normas establecidas en esa institución: tres cuartas partes de la tesis es un trabajo creativo, Lucy, Go See, una novela de formación basada en una búsqueda; la cuarta parte es una exégesis crítica de la novela: A Quest to Self-Construct: Lucy Pilgrim’s Map. La exégesis gira en torno a la autoconstrucción en oposición a la autodestrucción en respuesta a una herida. Después de examinar la historia y la naturaleza de las “quests” y los Bildungsromans y situar la novela dentro de estos géneros, la exégesis rastrea eros, la voz y la herida a través del territorio vulnerable de la humanidad y explora cómo la colonización ha afectado a las relaciones personales. Por lo tanto, esta tesis es una investigación creativa, narrativa y crítica sobre el valor de eros, la voz y la herida como instrumentos y articulaciones de agencia constituidas a través de visiones de la subjetividad.
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Large, David John. "On to Genesis: Malcolm Lowry, Ultramarine and Consequential Modernism." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/11576.
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This thesis explores the composition, revision and prose structure of Malcolm Lowry’s first novel Ultramarine (1933), examining Lowry’s shifting techniques of paraphrase, metaphrase and direct quotation across a variety of drafts and published versions of the novel. Lowry’s early and deliberate assumption of specific—if objectively misleading—personae in early letters to his desired interlocutors portray the fraught process of presenting oneself in a desired light; Ultramarine, I suggest, enacts the same process not just on the prosaic level of its plot, but more crucially for Lowry, as evidence that he had emerged as an author in his own right. Complicating this process, however, my analysis of Ultramarine demonstrates that the novel contains a profoundly greater accretion of voices than has previously been assumed. Among the dozens of newly identified source texts addressed in the thesis, I have discovered in the novel Lowry’s unacknowledged literal prose translations of no fewer than eleven poems by the Norwegian poet and writer Nordahl Grieg. In light of these discoveries, the thesis proposes a reconceptualised approach to Ultramarine criticism and Lowry studies in general, based first on accounting for the influence of the perceivable signifying factors within a work (the ‘phenotext’), though with a view towards a fuller and more balanced explanation of the work’s generative factors (the ‘genotext’). Lowry wrote much of Ultramarine under the tutelage of Conrad Aiken, whose appreciation for polyphony and structured prose I see as demonstrably influential on the younger writer. Aiken’s early literary criticism and the novel Blue Voyage (1927) bear down strongly upon the short stories and drafts that form the nascent text of Ultramarine, though I suggest Lowry shook off Aiken’s influence as he began to exert his desire for true individuation: for authorial ontogenesis. So too did Lowry write against the work of his second literary father figure, Nordahl Grieg, whose poems Lowry had adopted in Ultramarine as lyrical and seemingly authentic expressions of his protagonist’s struggle. Lowry’s second novel In Ballast to the White Sea (1934–6) presents as a particularly reflective attempt to write himself out of Grieg’s shadow. A congenitally modernist writer, Lowry draws heavily upon the works, words and voices of other writers and poets in the process of composing and revising his own texts. Lowry’s prose has an aesthetic appeal greater than the sum of its textual parts: though a text such as Ultramarine is not created from ‘whole cloth’, understanding the warp and weft of Lowry’s textual weaving is of no lesser value than the annotative work of recognising the disparate threads that make up the text itself. I argue in my final chapter that Lowry’s idiosyncratic brand of late modernist composition is best termed a ‘consequential modernism’. Lowry writes as a consequence of his high modernist predecessors, and the interwoven text that results—cited, recited and enciphered—is of particular consequence as much for his dexterity and originality as for the breadth and depth of his source material.
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Codes, Sílvia Correia de. "Maravilhas do lado de cá do Atlântico: Medievalidades no Nordeste brasileiro através da literatura popular de cordel." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/462114.
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Este estudo doutoral analisa aspectos da cultura nordestina brasileira, em particular, das narrativas da literatura popular de cordel, que em muitos casos estão enriquecidas de medievalidades e maravilhas, entendidas por nós como mais uma herança do mundo medieval ibérico no Brasil. Através do diálogo com as fontes e com a historiografia especializada, dar-se-á especial atenção a estas narrativas enquanto resultado da apropriação e ressignificação de tradições discursivas e representações imagéticas do mundo ibérico em território nordestino. Além disso, destacamos como na atualidade esses elementos estão presentes tanto na poética dos folhetos como em outras manifestações artísticas da região. Por último, investigamos os esforços empreendidos para a perpetuação, expansão e valorização desta literatura por parte de poetas, professores e pesquisadores, que procuram alinhá-la às transformações dos dias atuais – além das ações e das políticas de preservação promovidas por instituições e acervos que visam salvaguardar esses aspectos culturais.Aquest estudi doctoral examina els aspectes de la cultura del nord-est del Brasil, en particular, les narratives de la literatura popular de canya i cordill, que en molts casos s'alimentaven de traços medievals i meravelles; entès per nosaltres com un llegat del món medieval ibèric a Brasil. A través del diàleg amb les fonts i la historiografia especialitzada, es donar una atenció especial a aquestes narratives, com a resultat de l'apropiació i reinterpretació de les tradicions discursives i representacions de l'imaginari del món ibèric en el territori del nord-est. A més, destaquem com avui en dia aquests elements són presents tant en la poesia d'aquests textos com en altres formes d'art de la regió. Finalment, investiguem els esforços que s'han fet en pro a donar continuïtat i valo-rització d'aquesta literatura per poetes, professors i investigadors; tractant d'alinear-les a les transformacions d'avui. A més de les accions i polítiques de conservació promo-gudes per institucions i col·leccions destinades a salvaguardar aquests aspectes cultu-rals.
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Taylor, Ena. "All shall be well: Julian and Bartholomew." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2011. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/401.
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The creative content of my thesis has been developed from a personal experience that became the catalyst, and source material for the creative part of the novella All Shall Be Well: Julian and Bartholomew. The essay, and the preface to the creative side, situates the thesis as a work of reflection and memoir combining with creativity, and proposes that threads of beliefs and feelings, represented in the social, and the cultural life of the English fourteenth century, are also relevant to, and for those to be found in contemporary society. This applies particularly to the importance of compassion in society, and emphasises the reality of what it is to be human.The reflective essay contains my own personal experiences, and an alignment, with two characters, their discovery, and the impact that it has had on my own life and beliefs. Wrought in coincidence, it also connects with a childhood life in the county of Norfolk, England, where my two authentic characters are found to be living in close vicinity to one another, at almost the precise time. The anchoress Julian of Norwich lived in a cell attached to the church of St Julian in the city of Norwich, in the latter part of the fourteenth century, and some fifteen miles south east of Norwich lived Bartholomew Edrich, Lord of the Manor in the village of Thrigby.Edrich, my own patriarchal surname, was an ancient Anglo Saxon name, commensurate with the longevity of the Edrich family. As yeoman farmers they have lived in this area throughout the centuries and to the present day. Bartholomew is authenticated by my discovery of his silver seal in the Norwich Castle Museum in 1978. I came to Julian of Norwich, anchoress at the church of St. Julian, in a dance included in the Sacred Circle Dances group, of which I was a member. I was further inspired by her writing, and those who wrote of her, in books bought in subsequent visits to her reconstituted cell. The recovered writing of her book the Revelations of Divine Love, various wills of the period in which she lived, and a reference made, in The Book of Margery Kempe, to a visit made by Margery to Julian in her cell in 1415, establishes her authenticity.In the essay I have observed and written of medieval living conditions, noting the dramatic weather and health changes that caused much loss of life, and with great human suffering. This has been the background for the meeting of two historical personages, Julian and Bartholomew. An accompanying fictional story draws on their roles, as people caught in a violent situation, where there is the need for a listening ear, and prayerful response; for such was the role of an anchoress, or anchorite, of that period. It has recently been suggested that role to be similar to contemporary counselling, even that of psychotherapy.Implicit in this thesis is the conclusion that suffering engenders compassion, the feeling that one suffers with another, in understanding and love. This is, I feel, an important thread connecting the medieval, and, a contemporary society. For a population suffering immense changes today, as in the medieval period of the fourteenth century, implies that Julian’s message, of the motherhood of God, His love for his creation in His understanding and compassion for sin, and His message of hope, is proof of her popularity and of a recognised need of the contemporary human. I acknowledge a sense of pride that my family name existed then, and can be found in the same area today, and that they are a vital part, that recognises in the story unfolding, a continuity of the name, and of the family’s genetic qualities.
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Hartley, Christopher. "Fear and greed : financial crisis in the novel since 1850." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f10d11fd-916d-480f-ac24-0379b1a5a71b.
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The financial crisis of 2008 has been the most significant global economic phenomenon of the new century. Sudden and largely unanticipated, this crisis nonetheless marks the latest in a series of financial panics that forms a welldocumented feature of finance capitalism stretching back to the Dutch Tulip Bubble of 1637 and beyond, including such notorious crises as the South Sea Bubble of 1720, the Railway Shares panics of 1837 and 1847, the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and Black Monday in 1987. These and other crises have fostered a complex and diverse intellectual response - particularly since the South Sea Bubble - that has included interventions not only from economists and economic historians, but poets, dramatists, novelists, and others. This raises the question of whether the novel’s contribution to our wider understanding of financial crises has been fully acknowledged and assessed. In this thesis, the complex and shifting relationship between literary and non-literary responses to financial crisis is explored through an examination of the ideas of political economists, philosophers, journalists, financiers, and others, including Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Lord Overstone, Walter Bagehot, Herbert Spencer, Thorstein Veblen, Joseph Schumpeter, and J.M. Keynes, that situates their theories alongside readings of novels of financial crisis from the 1850s onward.
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Ramírez, Paredes Roberto Marcos. "Ese aire de mágico aislamiento: Herman Melville y la construcción de Latinoamérica en el siglo XIX." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673683.
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La tesis doctoral propone un recorrido por la prosa de ficción y de viaje de Herman Melville, en la que construye imaginarios regionales de identidad latinoamericana. La investigación inicia con el análisis de las ficciones Taipí y Omú, ambientadas en islas “no civilizadas”, para contrastarlas con los tres textos literarios que versan sobre o se desarrollan en América Latina: Las Encantadas, Benito Cereno y Moby Dick, además de otros textos más cortos de su acervo, como el cuento “La veranda”, que dialogan sobre todo de ámbitos peruanos y ecuatorianos.
En las tres ficciones mencionadas se develan los motivos que Melville erige sobre Latinoamérica: se trata de una tierra que encarna el exotismo de los Cronistas de Indias, pero atravesada por las corrientes científicas y naturalistas de los siglos XVIII y XIX. La región buscaba afianzar su identidad tras la independencia del Imperio español, mientras era seguida de cerca, con intereses expansionistas, por otra potencia que se consolidaba en el mapa geopolítico decimonónico: Estados Unidos. Esto es claro sobre todo en el análisis de las Islas Galápagos creadas por Melville.
Asimismo, se propone una reflexión sobre personajes latinoamericanos, que aparecen en las ficciones como una conexión globalizante del país del norte con las regiones del sur: la tapada limeña, la viuda chola, el ermitaño Oberlus, el criollo cubano, etc. En este sentido se propone también el estudio del uso de los términos de tratamiento en la región, el sistema de blanqueamiento, el uso del español en ámbitos anglófonos, entre otros aspectos. Por último, se estudia todo lo que implica la incursión de un doblón ecuatoriano de oro en el negocio ballenero: la historia real de dicha moneda y cómo esta une Moby Dick con Ecuador, Estados Unidos con la Vieja España y Latinoamérica, en la historia del siglo XIX.This dissertation examines those works of fiction and travel writing by Herman Melville in which the author constructs regional imaginaries of a Latin-American identity. The research starts with an analysis of the novels Typee and Omoo, which take place in ‘uncivilized’ islands, and contrast their depictions with those of three texts that deal with Latin America: The Encantadas, Benito Cereno, and Moby-Dick, as well as with other shorter texts such as “The Piazza”, always focusing on Peruvian or Ecuadorian themes. All three longer pieces display the motives of Melville’s vision of Latin America as a land that epitomizes the exoticism of the Indian Chroniclers, and whose depiction is also permeated by the scientific and naturalist inquiries of the 18th and 19th centuries. The region is presented as seeking its own identity after achieving its independence from the Spanish empire, while being closely haunted by the expansionist interests of another consolidating power in the nineteenth-century geopolitical map: the United States. This is especially the case in Melville’s presentation of the Galápagos islands. The dissertation also provides an analysis of the Melville’s Latin-American characters that are presented as a globalizing connection of the U.S. with its southern neighbors, and which include figures such as the ‘tapada’ from Lima, the chola widow, the hermit Oberlus, the Cuban creole, etc. The study also analyzes aspects such as the modes of address in the region, the system of whitening, and the use of Spanish in Anglophone contexts. Finally, the thesis provides a case study of a specific feature: the Ecuadorian gold doubloon in the context of the whale industry, offering an account of the real history of the coin and of how it connects Moby-Dick with Ecuador, the United States, Old Spain, and Latin America within the history of the nineteenth century.
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MARCO, C. DE. "SELF-REPRESENTING PARABLES:THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ELEMENT IN PER OLOV ENQUIST'S WORKS." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/529848.
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Questa tesi si propone di analizzare l’opera di Per Olov Enquist alla luce di una prospettiva autobiografica. Dopo aver pubblicato numeri romanzi e opere teatrali di grande successo, in cui spesso compaiono elementi e dettagli autobiografici, nel 2008 l’autore svedese ha dato alle stampe un’autobiografia, la cui lettura rafforza l’impressione che le sue esperienze personali abbiano costituito una fondamentale fonte di ispirazione per le opere di finzione. Per inquadrare gli scritti di Enquist in un’ottica autobiografica vengono utilizzate alcune chiavi di lettura offerte dagli stessi testi presi in analisi. Si tratta in primo luogo di due metafore che rappresentano il bisogno di ordinare e di trovare un significato all’esperienza del mondo e della propria identità, attività che parte della critica identifica come motore stesso della scrittura autobiografica: l’assemblare puzzle e il disegnare mappe. In secondo luogo, anche l’uso quasi ossessivo della ripetizione di episodi, immagini ed espressioni viene interpretato come portatore di una valenza autobiografica. A ricorrere sono una serie di «punti dolenti» (smärtpunkterna in originale) che da un lato non vengono mai raccontati fino in fondo, dall’altro si ripresentano da un libro all’altro proprio in virtù della loro carica emotiva inespressa. Questo porta a identificare le due forze contrarie all’opera contemporaneamente nella scrittura di Enquist: da un lato l’impulso a nascondere, a negare, dall’altro quello a mostrare, a rivelare.
Alla luce di queste chiavi di lettura, vengono prese in esame gran parte delle opere di Enquist, dagli esordi nel 1961 al libro più recente del 2013. Questa analisi evidenzia un’evoluzione nelle strategie di auto-rappresentazione utilizzate. In una prima fase (Kristallögat, Färdvägen, Hess, Legionärerna), gli elementi autobiografici sono isolati e spesso attribuiti a personaggi di finzione. In un secondo gruppo di opere (Sekonden, Musikanternas uttåg, Nedstörtad ängel, I lodjurets timma), assistiamo a un aumento del livello di autobiograficità, pur mantenendo un contesto finzionale. Infine, nell’ultima fase la dimensione autobiografica diventa centrale, sebbene con modalità diverse nei vari testi presi in considerazione: declinata sotto forma di saggio in Kartritarna, l’auto-rappresentazione assume forma metaforica in Kapten Nemos bibliotek, dichiaratamente autobiografica in Ett annat liv, per poi tornare a una forma ibrida ma a forte componente memorialistica in Liknelseboken. Da questa analisi delle opere di Per Olov Enquist emerge la conclusione che la costante presenza di elementi autobiografici nella sua scrittura è indice di un’esigenza di creare un ordine e trovare un senso al sé e al mondo. Tuttavia, la forma tipicamente autobiografica (cronologica, analitica) non sembra essere la più adatta a soddisfare questa esigenza, a cui risponde meglio una rappresentazione basata sulla metafora.This dissertation aims at analysing Per Olov Enquist’s work in the light of an autobiographical perspective. After giving to print a number of acclaimed novels and dramas, often strewn with autobiographical elements and details, in 2008 he also published an autobiography, which reinforced the impression that his personal experience had been a fundamental inspiration for his fictional works. The keys that allow to read Enquist’s writings in an autobiographical light are taken from his own works: in particular, I have identified two metaphors that represent the need for ordering and finding a meaning in the world and himself, i.e. assembling puzzles and drawing maps, as well as an obsessive use of repetition, seen as the other side of the coin of the silence under which sensitive subjects (or smärtpunkterna, as the author calls them) are passed. In Enquist’s works in fact the opposing forces of negation and revelation are always at work at the same time: although disturbing experiences are often disguised or passed under silence, their intrinsic force makes sure that they are mentioned again and again, from one book to another. Enquist’s works have then been grouped into three sets with different self-representing strategies: from inserting isolated personal elements in the plot, often attributed to fictional characters, as in the first group (Kristallögat, Färdvägen, Hess and Legionärerna), to a more marked presence of the autobiographical elements, albeit still in a fictionalised frame, in the second group (Sekonden, Musikanternas uttåg, Nedstörtad ängel and I lodjurets timma), to a clear self-representative purpose in the third group, although with deeply different methods: oneiric and symbolical in Kapten Nemos bibliotek, essaistic in Kartritarna, straightforwardly autobiographical in Ett annat liv, pensively memoiristic in Liknelseboken. The conclusions I have drawn from this survey of Per Olov Enquist’s production is that the persistent recurrence of autobiographical elements in his writing is connected to the need to find a meaning and a unity, both in himself and in the world. However, straightforward autobiography is not necessarily the most adequate way to satisfy that need: in Enquist’s case, metaphor seems to offer a more effective solution.
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Fuão, Rebeca Schumacher Eder. "La quête de la modernité chez Pierre Reverdy (1913-1918), avec la traduction de neuf de ses textes d'esthétique." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/156418.
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Cette thèse a pour but d’étudier la quête de la modernité chez Pierre Reverdy dans une période spécifique de sa production : de 1913 à 1918. Reverdy est l’auteur d’une large oeuvre qui s’étend de 1913 à 1959, un an avant sa mort. L’intervalle choisi, c’est-à-dire le début de sa carrière, correspond à celui de la publication de ses recueils les plus artistiques et aussi celui de la fondation de sa revue, Nord-Sud, où il souhaite, à partir des essais qu’il y publie, définir et établir quelques bases de sa propre production tout comme de ses contemporains qui travaillent aussi sur la libération et l’innovation de la poésie française. Ce groupe cherche, il souhaite, avant tout, la modernité. Ce travail est divisé en trois grandes parties. La première, qui compte neuf chapitres, présente, à partir d’une recherche menée sur des dictionnaires français, le parcours de l’élaboration du concept de modernité. Ensuite, un bref panorama de l’histoire de la poésie française moderne jusqu’à Pierre Reverdy est offert. Dans la deuxième partie, je me penche sur le poète d’intérêt de cette thèse. Dans les cinq chapitres qui la composent je présente sa vie et son oeuvre, ses textes d’esthétique, je discute ses concepts clés pour ensuite m’adonner à l’étude d’une sélection de sept poèmes. La troisième partie porte sur la traduction de ces textes d’esthétique qui sont en tout neuf. Tout d’abord, j’introduis le sujet de la traduction et ses difficultés. Ensuite, je présente une sélection des difficultés concrètes de traduction trouvées dans les textes que j’ai travaillés.Esta tese tem o objetivo de estudar a busca pela modernidade em Pierre Reverdy durante um período específico de sua produção: de 1913 a 1918. Reverdy é autor de uma extensa obra que se estende de 1913 a 1959, um ano antes de sua morte. O intervalo escolhido, ou seja, o do início de sua carreira, corresponde àquele da publicação de suas coletâneas mais artísticas e também àquele da fundação de sua revista, Nord-Sud, na qual o mesmo deseja, a partir dos ensaios que nela publica, definir e estabelecer algumas bases da suas própria produção assim como de seus contemporâneos que trabalham com a liberação e a inovação da poesia francesa. Esse grupo busca, deseja, antes de tudo, a modernidade. Esse trabalho está dividido em três grandes partes. A primeira, que conta com nove capítulos, apresenta, a partir de uma pesquisa feita em dicionários franceses, o percurso da elaboração do conceito de modernidade. Em seguida, um breve panorama da história da poesia francesa moderna até Pierre Reverdy é oferecido. Na segunda parte, me debruço sobre o poeta de interesse desta tese. Nos cinco capítulos que a compõem, apresento a sua vida e a sua obra, seus textos de estética, discuto seus conceitos chave para, em seguida, me dedicar ao estudo de um grupo de sete poemas. A terceira parte versa sobre a tradução desses textos de estética que são, no total, nove. Primeiramente, introduzo o tema da tradução e de suas dificuldades. Em seguida, apresento uma seleção das dificuldades concretas de tradução encontradas nos textos com os quais trabalhei.
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Storskog, C. C. "Literary Impressionisms. Resonances of Impressionism in Swedish and Finland-Swedish Prose 1880-1900." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/261135.
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This dissertation aims to locate and draw out resonances of impressionism in Swedish and Finland-Swedish prose at the end of the nineteenth century, a field hitherto overlooked in the critical debate on literary impressionism. Through the initial examination of the use of the term in an international context comprising the Scandinavian scene, the aim is to show the many alternative accesses to literary impressionism. By focusing on three landmark discussions on the theme in the Nordic countries of the late nineteenth-century (Herman Bang, the Kristiania Bohème, August Strindberg) the inclusive, wide-ranging Scandinavian understanding of the relationship between impressionism and literature is introduced. Accordingly, the texts thereafter chosen for closer scrutiny are intended to disclose this extensive interpretation of impressionist writing: Helena Westermarck’s short story Aftonstämning (Evening Mood) from 1890 is read as an example of interart transposition, i.e., as a piece of prose adopting a theme, as well as the compositional aesthetics, of painterly impressionism; Stella Kleve’s novels and short stories are instead seen as indicative of the narrative modes of a literary impressionism drawing on theatrical representation, as in Bang’s impressionist poetics, but also present textual features such as the ‘metonymic mode’ and ‘delayed decoding’, elements central to the international approach to impressionist prose. The concluding analysis of fictional impressionists in the prose of authors such as Gustaf af Geijerstam, Mathilda Roos, and Georg Nordensvan advances a many-sided portrait of the impressionist painter while remaining true to this study’s pluralistic approach to literary impressionism by including a discussion of K. A. Tavaststjerna’s Impressionisten (The Impressionist) from 1892, whose protagonist is not an artist but a hypersensitive, impressionable subject. This last section also investigates how fiction is used to convey a critical discussion of the means and methods of painterly impressionism, as well as the function of the use of the visual arts in the texts.
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Roth, Rachel A. "Socio-Economic Class Mobility in American Naturalist Fiction." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1374498683.
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Labourey, Marion. "Les écritures de l’histoire dans le récit magico-réaliste des Amériques." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL138.
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Le récit magico-réaliste entretient avec l’écriture de l’histoire un rapport très étroit. Entre les années 1940 et les années 1980, dans toute l’aire géographique américaine, s’est développé et a évolué une fiction magico-réaliste qui se donne comme objectif la transcription de données anthropologiques, concernant les populations dominées américaines, qu’elles soient composées d’autochtones, d’esclaves ou de descendants d’esclaves, dans un univers romanesque où réalisme et magie se côtoient sans tensions. Ainsi, en abordant les périodes passées du continent américain, les auteurs de récits magico-réalistes ont construit un type de fiction qu’ils ont façonné dans le but de permettre une expression littéraire de l’opération historiographique, qui ne peut pas se substituer à la science historique, mais qui peut donner, d’une façon qui tire parti des potentialités de la fiction, une voix à ceux qu’un discours dominant et des structures de pouvoir ont longtemps laissés dans l’ombre. Nous étudierons donc comment les récits magico-réalistes écrivent l’histoire, et notamment restituent des visions du monde longtemps ignorées, dans une perspective proche de l’histoire des représentations. Une telle entreprise littéraire et historique constitue par-là même un phénomène structurant pour le champ littéraire américain, mais aussi caribéen. Notre corpus d’étude trilingue réunit des auteurs de tout le continent américain : Miguel Ángel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Toni Morrison, Wilson Harris, Toni Cade Bambara, Jean-Louis Baghio’o, Jacques Stephen Alexis et Maryse CondéThe magical realistic narrative is deeply linked with the writing of history. Between the 1940’s and the 1980’s, throughout the entire America, has been developed and has evolved the magic realism which let the authors of such narratives to transcribe anthropological datas, coming from dominated populations of America (Natives, slaves or former slaves) in novels in which realism and magic can mix without tension. Then, by describing the past periods of the American continent, the authors of magic realism narratives have built a kind of fiction able to imitate, but not replace, the historical investigation : they can, with the help of the specific resources of fiction, give a voice to those who where kept in the dark for so long. We will study how the authors of magic realism narratives write history, et transcribe the representations of people who were not considered before. Such a literary phenomenon is fundamental in the building of an American literary filed. Our trilingual corpus gathers these nine authors : Miguel Ángel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Toni Morrison, Wilson Harris, Toni Cade Bambara, Jean-Louis Baghio’o, Jacques Stephen Alexis et Maryse Condé
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CRINITI, STEPHEN FRANCIS. "NAVIGATING THE TORRENT: DOCUMENTARY FICTION IN THE AGE OF MASS MEDIA." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1189530451.
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