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  1. 1. "And lo! Apollo Could Not Live Without Dionysus" A Nietzschean Study of the Apollonian and Dionysian in Donna Tartt's The Secret History

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

    Författare :Jessica Kafa; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Donna Tartt; The Secret History; Nietzsche; Apollonian; Dionysian; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : Previous research on Donna Tartt’s debut novel The Secret History in regards to its intertextual relevance has helped in understanding the traditional campus novel, as well as redefined the classical murder mystery. However, little research has been made on its characters and its portrayal of the human experience. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Apollonian and Dionysian Psychology in The Age of Innocence : A Psychoanalytical Essay

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Isak Olsson; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Nietzsche; Freud; Wharton; Apollo; Dionysus; Psychology; Psychoanalysis; Literature;

    Sammanfattning : The dichotomous concepts of order and chaos represented by the mythological Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus, as outlined by Friedrich Nietzsche in his controversial 1872 book on dramatic theory, The Birth of Tragedy, will in this essay serve as the primary literary concepts utilized in a psychoanalysis of the main character and his struggles in the American realist novel The Age of Innocence published in 1920. The social tragedy at the center of the novel written by the now canonical author Edith Wharton pits the protagonist, Newland Archer, against his own morality, in a battle between duty and passion, and conflicting personality traits. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Från Potebnja till Barthes - den tidiga formalismens materialisering : Återproblematiseringar av Viktor Šklovskijs metodimmanenta princip

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för slaviska och baltiska språk, finska, nederländska och tyska

    Författare :Margareta Nydahl; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Viktor Šklovskij; Aleksandr Potebnja; early formalism; cubo-futurism; symbolism; estrangement; sujet; antisubstantialism; reductionism; problematizations; post-modernism; structuralism; energeia; Viktor Šklovskij; Aleksandr Potebnja; tidig formalism; kubofuturism; symbolism; främmandegöring; sujett; antisubstantialism; reduktionism; problematiseringar; postmodernism; strukturalism; energeia;

    Sammanfattning : In the course of this thesis, decisive problematizations, in the Foucauldian sense, around Viktor Šklovskij’s early Russian Formalism shall be the object of re-problematizations. More precisely, a careful look will be taken at re-problematizations around theoretical aspects regarding Šklovskij’s paradigmatic reductionist model, primarily as it is introduced in his article Art as device (1917), described most notably by Aage Hansen-Löve and Wolf Schmid in Der Russische Formalismus (1978) and Slavische Erzähltheorie (2010), Elemente der Narratologie (2014) as well as Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Erzählen (2018) respectively. LÄS MER

  5. 4. "A Morbid Longing for the Picturesque" : The Pursuit of Beauty in Donna Tartt's The Secret History

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Engelska

    Författare :Charles Perseus D'Aniello; [2021]
    Nyckelord :beauty; destruction; Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy; Donna Tartt; The Secret History; The Birth of Tragedy; Nietzsche;

    Sammanfattning : This essay analyzes the theme of the pursuit of beauty in The Secret History. It analyzes the main characters’ concept of beauty, their manner of seeking beauty, as well as the result of this search. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Aspects of Control in Donna Tartt's The Secret History

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Maria Grip; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Donna Tartt; The Secret History; Control; New Criticism; Symbols; Images; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : In literature there is a great variety of detective novels and The Secret History is one that presents the whydunnit-plot pattern, as the murderers are exposed early on. Another extensive part of The Secret History is its connection to Greek tragedies and Dionysian influences. LÄS MER