Sökning: "nineteenth-century literature"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 43 uppsatser innehållade orden nineteenth-century literature.
1. "En fröken af mankön" : Könsöverskridande beteende och identitet under 1800-talet
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoriaSammanfattning : The purpose of the thesis is to examine how the gender identity of individuals who did not identify within the cisgender norm were experienced by the individuals themselves as well as perceived by their surroundings during the nineteenth century in Sweden. This is done by analysing the autobiographies of two gender nonconforming people, Therese Andreas Bruce and Lars “Lasse-Maja'' Molin. LÄS MER
2. Accommodating Perspectives on Religious History : A Study of Satire and Narrative Structure in Aldous Huxley’s Crome Yellow
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraSammanfattning : This essay is an analysis of Aldous Huxley’s novel Crome Yellow and how it can be read as exposing social hypocrisy and tracing social flaws through England’s religious history. The analysis uses narratology as a tool for exploring how the author can be perceived as offering a perspective on religious history that might have been controversial in his day. LÄS MER
3. Man(ners) Maketh Woman : An Analysis of Dutch Male-Authored Women’s Advice Literature
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenSammanfattning : This thesis analyses Adriaan Loosjes’ De Vrouw in de Vier Tijdperken Haars Levens (’The Woman inthe Four Stages of her Life’) and Gozewijn de Greuve’s Wilhelmina, een Handboek voor het VrouwelijkeGeslacht (‘Wilhelmina, a Guide for the Female Sex’). These two works of male-authored adviceliterature for women in the early nineteenth-century Netherlands are analysed in order to researchthe construction of gender. LÄS MER
4. ‘The Fisherman and his Soul’ Revalued : A Significant and Singular Fairy Tale in Oscar Wilde’s Work
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenSammanfattning : The period 1889-1891 has been regarded as crucial in Oscar Wilde’s (1854-1900) career. Having been somewhat unsuccessful as a writer during the 1880s, and turning to journalism to earn a living, Wilde in this period saw the publication of his dialogues which led to his sole novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (hereafter, Dorian), serialised in 1890 before being republished as a novel in 1891. LÄS MER
5. Extinction, or the Extension of Life : Biology and History as Representation and Metaphor in Ted Chiang's "Seventy-Two Letters"
Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Sammanfattning : This paper explores Ted Chiang's novella "Seventy-Two Letters" and the way in which it combines genres, scientific and historical ideas in an effort to examine topics about life and creation. The combinations result in an intriguing representation of a history which is then made different and where Chiang can creatively challenge past ideas. LÄS MER
