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1. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Otherness and The Abject in Alice Munro's "Dimensions" and "Child's Play"
Magister-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudierSammanfattning : This thesis is aimed at investigating the concepts of otherness and the abject/abjection in the various characters' discourses in the two short stories "Dimensions" and "Child's Play" in Alice Munro's collection Too Much Happiness from a psychoanalytic perspective in conjunction with a Critical Discourse Analysis. Both texts share features of otherness which manifest in various forms in the characters. LÄS MER
2. Representations of gender in Wuthering Heights : An analysis of Masculinity and femininity and women as the abject
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraSammanfattning : The aim of this essay is to analyse gender representations in Wuthering Heights byusing French literary criticism. French literary critics thought that the language ofliterature was predominantly phallocentric as male authors, who helped shape thatlanguage, dominated it. LÄS MER
3. "Kvart-i-ge-upp" : Dåtid, nutid och framtid i Tone Schunnessons Dagarna, Dagarna, Dagarna
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/LitteraturvetenskapSammanfattning : En undersökning av manifestationer av revolutionär tid i Tone Schunnessons Dagarna, Dagarna, Dagarna, utifrån Fanny Söderbäcks beskrivning av konceptet i hennes Revolutionary Time: On Time and Difference in Kristeva and Irigaray. Uppsatsen utreder förekomsten av det som Söderbäck kallar revolutionary time (i uppsatsen revolutionär tid) och vilken effekt dessa manifestationer får på läsningen av Schunnessons roman, utifrån en narratologisk och tematisk metod. LÄS MER
4. Äta djävlar, föda ord : Om återkommande groteska motiv i Mikael Niemis romaner Kyrkdjävulen, Populärmusik från Vittula, Fallvatten och Koka björn
Master-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaperSammanfattning : This essay deals with recurring grotesque motifs in Mikael Niemi’s novels Kyrkdjävulen, Populärmusik från Vittula (Popular Music from Vittula), Fallvatten and Koka björn (To Cook a Bear). It aims to widen the academic understanding of Niemi’s works by focusing on their aesthetics in relation to previous studies, which have mostly been concerned with placing Niemi in a context of Tornedalian minority literature. LÄS MER
5. "The Grey Sky Lowers" : The Uncanny in Five of Sylvia Plath's Poems
Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the uncanny (das Unheimliche) in five of Sylvia Plath’s 1962 poems: “Berck-Plage”, “The Arrival of the Bee Box”, “Daddy”, “Fever 103°”, and “Death & Co.”. Furthermore, it looks at how the biographical circumstances in which the poet found herself while writing the poems, may have influenced them. LÄS MER