Sökning: "Material Ecocriticism"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 uppsatser innehållade orden Material Ecocriticism.

  1. 1. Sekelskiftets molnkonst : En ekokritisk studie av Charlotte Wahlströms molnskildringar

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Frida Händler; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Art History; 19th Century Painting; landscape painting; clouds; cloud studies; mood painting; Charlotte Wahlström; ecocriticism; Anthropocene;

    Sammanfattning : This essay examines cloud depictions made by the Swedish artist Charlotte Wahlström (1849–1924) during the turn of the twentieth century. The purpose of the essay is to increase the knowledge of the works of a relatively unexplored female artist and discuss how an ecocritical perspective can bring new light to landscape painting during this period of time. LÄS MER

  3. 2. En våg från framtiden En materiell ekokritisk läsning av P C Jersilds Efter floden

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Författare :David Fredriksson; [2022-08-16]
    Nyckelord :PC Jersild; Efter floden; material ecocriticism; postapokalyps; apokalyps; storyworld; översvämning; kärnvapenkatastrof; ekologi; Timothy Morton; intra-aktioner; narrative environments;

    Sammanfattning : This study explores how different kinds of matter interact and intra-act with each other and with the human dimension in Jersild’s Efter floden. This according to the notion that these intra-actions produce configurations of meanings and discourses that we can interpret as stories. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Matter Manifesting Itself : Understanding Nonhuman Agency in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Romanska och klassiska institutionen

    Författare :Johanna Koivunen; [2022]
    Nyckelord :ecocriticism; new materialism; agency; materiality; transformation; nonhuman; latin; ancient literature; roman literature;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines transformations of human characters into trees, stones, and water sources in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The current climate crisis is partly the result of a view of nature as a passive object, or inert matter, that humans without consequences can exploit. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Myren och moderniteten : om natur, tid och plats i Sara Lidmans roman Hjortronlandet

    Magister-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Författare :Emelie Sandström; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Sara Lidman; Hjortronlandet; ecocriticism; spatiality; nature; space; place; time; Kate Soper; Yi-Fu Tuan; Doreen Massey; Sara Lidman; Hjortronlandet; ekokritik; rumsuppfattning i litteraturen; natur; rum; plats; tid; Kate Soper; Yi-Fu Tuan; Doreen Massey;

    Sammanfattning : With this essay I aim to illustrate the simultaneous tension between and entanglement of narratives of mire and modernity in Sara Lidman’s novel Hjortronlandet. Both mire and modernity are understood wide concepts; as temporal as well as spatial markers relating to nature. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Grieving the Ungrievable: Searching for Home through Nonhuman Becoming in Hiromi Itō’s Wild Grass on the Riverbank and Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s The Grassling

    Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Matilda Davidsson; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Hiromi Itō; Elizabeth-Jane Burnett; Home; Irrealism; Nonhuman agency; climate change; Deleuze;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to examine non-human agency in Elizabeth Jane Burnett’s The Grassling and Hiromi Itō’s Wild Grass on the Riverbank. Using a theoretical framework based on material ecocriticism, queer ecology and affect theory, the thesis explores how Burnett’s and Itō’s poetic narratives reconfigure the relationship between human and nonhuman in non-anthropocentric ways with the help of the irreal. LÄS MER