Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för språk och litteraturer by Title
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Geschlechtsübergreifende Personenbezeichnungen. Eine Referenz- und Relevanzanalyse an Texten
(2010-08-23)This thesis deals with patterns of variation in the usage of gender-inclusive personal nouns in contemporary German texts. The aim is to examine the existence and shape of such patterns on the basis of textual analyses. ... -
Grammar and grammaticalization in Manda: An analysis of the wider TAM domain in a Tanzanian Bantu language
(2017-09-07)This dissertation offers a grammatical description and analysis of Manda (N.11), a Bantu language spoken along Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) in southern Tanzania. The study focuses on the “wider” TAM domain, i.e. on how tense, ... -
Imagining a Place in Nature: Using Evolution to Explain the Early Evolutionary Imagination in Literature
(2017-10-19)After Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, Victorian literature overflowed with images of man’s new place in nature. Those images can be explained by modern research that builds on Darwin’s theory: the ... -
Immortality through Art: The Evolution of a Decadent Theme in Four Novels within and beyond the Fin de Siècle
(2013-06-05)Abstract Stajic Löfgren, Tia. Immortality through Art: The Evolution of a Decadent Theme in Four Novels within and beyond the Fin de Siècle. University of Gothenburg: Department of Languages and Literatures, 2012. This ... -
De Inconexis Continuum - A Study of the Late Antique Latin Wedding Centos
(2011-05-06)The kind of literature that is called cento is studied in this thesis with a special focus on two late antique Latin wedding poems, Cento Nuptialis written by Ausonius in the late 4th century A.D., and Epithalamium ... -
La expresión de cambio en español como lengua extranjera. Desarrollo y variación en la interlengua de aprendices suecohablantes
(2019-09-13)Title: The Expression of Change-of-State in Spanish as a Foreign Language: Development and Variation in the Interlanguage of Swedish-Speaking Learners. This dissertation examines the learning process of the expression ... -
La Fragilité des Limites - une lecture de la critique de la modernité chez Alain Finkielkraut
(2023-11-02)For over forty years Alain Finkielkraut has been part of debates that have structured, and sometimes divided, public and intellectual life in France. He is an intellectual who arouses controversy, disapproval and admiration. ... -
La Poétique de Houellebecq : réalisme, satire, mythe
(2011-04-15)This thesis sets out to explore French writer Michel Houellebecq’s poetics of the novel. It is advanced in the introduction that Houellebecq’s work could be read against the novelist’s 1997 suggestion that “if somebody ... -
La syllepse. Étude d'une figure de rhétorique dans l'œuvre de Francis Ponge
(2013-05-23)This doctoral dissertation deals with the figure of speech called “syllepsis” and, more particularly, with the way it is used in the work of the French poet Francis Ponge (1899-1988). The aim of the study is to highlight ... -
Latin Dissertations and Disputations in the Early Modern Swedish Gymnasium. A Study of a Latin School Tradition c. 1620-c 1820
(2018-05-09)This study is concerned with Latin dissertations and disputations in the early modern Swedish gymnasium in the period c. 1620 – c. 1820. Interest in early modern academic dissertations and disputations has increased during ... -
Le blog d'écrivain : La littérature à l'épreuve d'Internet
(2015-01-15)This study focuses on three blogs kept by writers who have published novels in renowned publishing houses: François Bon, Éric Chevillard and Chloé Delaume. This new writing practice raises the question of whether literature ... -
Le Manifeste littéraire revisité. Explorations fictionnelles du genre dans la littérature francaise contemporaine
(2015-02-13)This study shows how features of the literary manifesto, a genre associated with the avant-garde period, are integrated in three contemporary French novels: Le Caoutchouc décidément (1992) by Éric Chevillard, Tout-monde ... -
Le sommeil dans À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust: une étude intertextuelle
(2021-10-05)This thesis examines the intertextual aspects of the sleep motif in À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust. Literary scholars and theorists have generally iden- tified two dominant ways of depicting sleep in ... -
Liberté de création littéraire ou violation de la vie privée? Aspects littéraires et juridiques
(2016-11-04)This thesis sets out to explore the clash between two rights. On the one hand the right of every person to protect his or her private life and reputation, on the other the right of an artist to create freely. Taking real ... -
Linguistic Landshapes. A comparison of official and non-official language management in Rwanda and Uganda, focusing on the position of African languages
(2010-05-06)This thesis is a macro-sociolinguistic study and comparison of language status and use in Rwanda and Uganda. The data was collected in fieldwork. The study covers the main formal domains in society, both official and ... -
“Me voy pal Norte”. La configuración del sujeto migrante indocumentado en ocho novelas hispanoamericanas actuales (1992-2009)
(2015-05-13)This study explores the representation of the undocumented migrant in the contemporary Latin American novel. Clandestine crossings have long been a theme in Mexican and Chicano literature, often narrated from a highly ... -
National Theatre and the 20th Century Irish Dream Play
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Nature and Metamorphosis: A Study of Carl Adolph Agardh’s Latin Dissertations and Monographs on Botany and Biology
(2022-10-24)Carl Adolph Agardh (1785-1859), professor of botany and practical economy at Lund University, published a large corpus of Latin dissertations and monographs on the subjects of plant systematisation and plant physiology ... -
Översättning i nationens tjänst. J.L. Runeberg och de centralsydslaviska folksångerna
(2014-08-22)This thesis investigates the relationship between Johan Ludvig Runeberg and the Central South Slavic oral songs that he had read in the collection Serbische Volkslieder (1827), translated into German by Peter Otto von ...