Sökning: "crime novel"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 34 uppsatser innehållade orden crime novel.

  1. 1. Abrahams tid : Uppståndelsetanken i Dostojevskijs roman Brott och straff

    Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Författare :Christer Westling; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Dostoevsky; Crime and Punishment; Raskolnikov; Resurrection; Abraham;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this essay is to show that the protagonist of the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment is more open to change in his life than is often assumed by commentators. In the end of the novel the student Raskolnikov confesses the murder of two women, and he is sentenced to eight years in a prison colony. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Trois nuances de noir : Étude architextuelle du roman policier Total Khéops de Jean-Claude Izzo

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Romanska och klassiska institutionen

    Författare :Lisa Österlund; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Total Khéops; Jean-Claude-Izzo; généricité; architextualité; littérature policière; roman policier; polar marseillais; roman noir français; Mediterranean noir; Marseille;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines how the French bestselling detective novel Total Khéops (1995) by Jean-Claude Izzo relates to three literary sub-genres of detective fiction to which it mainly has been associated since it first was published: roman noir français (French roman noir), polar marseillais and Mediterranean noir. By assembling the most significant criterions of these sub-genres and analyzing their presence in Total Khéops, or its architextuality within the crime novel, this approach aims to reveal in what sub-genre this novel mainly should be categorized. LÄS MER

  3. 3. In Bondage at the Bottom of Hierarchy : A Study of Female Victimisation and the Exploitation of the Poor in Crime and Punishment

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Författare :Josefin Lann; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Crime and Punishment; Marxism; feminism; class struggle; female victimisation; double oppression;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates the societal tribulations of impoverished men and women in nineteenth-century St Petersburg in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. The analysis is centred around the novel’s portrayals of class struggle, female victimisation, and double oppression in capitalist and patriarchal society. LÄS MER

  4. 4. ”Mu eallin” – genrens funktion i Mikael Niemis roman Koka björn

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

    Författare :Henrik Schönbeck; [2022-05-10]
    Nyckelord :Mikael Niemi; Lars Levi Laestadius; postmodernism; historiographic metafiction; genre; early Sapmi literary history; historical novel; crime novel; novel of development; historical crime novel; Umberto Eco; nature writing; double code; fuzzy set; temporal structure; hypotextuality; metafiction; mise en abyme; laestadianism; carnival;

    Sammanfattning : This master’s thesis studies the functions of the genres in Swedish author Mikael Niemi’s novel To Cook a Bear (2017). The plot is set in Kengis in 1852 and is told through two protagonists: the priest and Jussi Sieppinen. The priest is a fictionalization of the priest, botanist, and revivalist preacher Lars Levi Laestadius. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Exposing Masculinities : Reframing the Hardboiled Detective in Lehane’s Shutter Island

    Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Författare :Payvand Behnam Nikou; [2022]
    Nyckelord :noir fiction; masculinity; hardboiled; gender; Shutter Island;

    Sammanfattning : This literary study examines the relationship between the hardboiled detective and the 2003 detective novel Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane. Known for his thought provoking stories as a crime novelist, Lehane exemplifies the desire of a current literary shift from stoic patriarchal constructs of detective archetypes towards a more feminist perspective. LÄS MER