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- Holmgren Troy, Maria
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In the first person and in the house : The house chronotope in four works by American women writers
- 1999
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The house looms large in American literature and plays a significant part in American society and history. This study uses Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope to examine the house in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons (1862), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979), and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping (1980). All four texts were written by American women and have female narrator-protagonists.At a time when it has been widely acknowledged that universals and binary oppositions have serious critical and political limitations, there is a need for approaches that can bring together multiple issues in criticism. This study proposes that the chronotope, which operates on several intra- and intertextual levels, offers such an approach. Employing the house chronotope as a focal point, I find it possible to probe the connections and tensions in the four works between time and space, generic concerns, ideology, first-person narration, and identity formation based on constructions of gender, race, class, sexuality, and nationality.The study furthermore investigates the interplay between the house chronotope and the chronotope of the town and also suggests that one may see Sylvie in Housekeeping as representing a chronotope of her own. Moreover, I address the question of the literary house chronotope's stability over time as indicated in these four works by four American women writers.
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- Tyrberg, Anders
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Skuldkänslans broderskap : en bok om Peder Sjögrens romaner
- 1996
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This doctoral thesis deals with Peder Sjogren’s (1905-1966) seven novels. By means of modern narratological instruments and with the emphasis laid on the thematic functions of the narrators, a central theme in Sjogren’s writing is uncovered. In all of Sjogren’s works the characters are tied together in a sense of guilt that is so strong that the ”fellowship” goes to the point of identification. Sjögren explores this theme by experimenting with different narrative techniques and by using a language with religious connotations.The narrators in Sjogren’s novels are engaged in existential projects; their functions are self-explorative, confessional and accusatory rather than communicative. In the analyses, analogies between Freudian psychoanalysis and the narrative situations in Sjogren’s novels are pointed out. The self-reflexive mirror is a prevalent metaphor in Sjogren’s writing, descriptive not only of the general structure of the novels but also of the ambivalent relationship between the characters. The metaphor of the mirror is interpreted both as a symbol of narcissistic escapism and of inevitable interdependence, a complicated relationship between a self-destructive tormentor and a godlike, aggressive and powerful victim.Intertextual links are established with texts by writers who were influential on the literary scene in the 1940s, especially Stig Dagerman and Jean Paul Sartre. The religious language and the Christian metaphors are interpreted in an existentialist and a phenomenological context.In a post-communicative reflection on the theme of the brotherhood of guilt, the thesis shows how Sjogren’s theme of guilt and identification invites a comparison with Emanuel Lévinas’s moral philosophy. In a final chapter striking similarities between the two writers are pointed out. Both writers find a structural analogy between the sacred encounter with the wounded face of the Other and the authentic encounter with death, and both writers interpret the moral responsibility for the Other as an obligation to beone’s brother’s keeper to the point of substitution.
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- Zetterman, Eva, 1957-
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Frida Kahlo as subject for a doctoral thesis
- 1996
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Ingår i: Paper presented at the conference Reunión de investigadoras/es sobre la problemática de género y de la mujer en América Latina, May 13, 1996, HAINA/Nätverk för nordiska forskare som arbetar med kvinnofrågor i Latinamerika, Iberoamerican Institute, Göteborg University.. - Göteborg. ; , s. 1-3
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Behrendtz, Lennart, et al.
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Grundtvig, Geijer och deras verkningshistoria
- 1997
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Denna skrift är en produkt av symposiet Grundtvig, Geijer och deras verkningsshistoria som anordnades i Karlstad och Dömle den xx - xx april 1996 för forskare och studenter.Arrangörer var avdelningen för historia och religionsvetenskap, Centrum för historisk-filosofisk forskning samt Center för Grundtvigsstudier vid Aarhus Universitet, Danmark
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- Svanberg, Mikael
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Företagsamhet föder framgång : Yrkeskarriärer och sociala nätverk bland företagarna i Sundsvall 1850-1900
- 1999
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The present dissertation deals with the factors influencing the professional careers of mer-chants and craftsmen working in the Swedish town of Sundsvall between 1850 and 1900. The most important hypotheses are: To what degree did social origins influence an entre-preneur's opportunities for running his business? How many of the children of these busi-nessmen assumed and maintained their parents' social status upon attaining adulthood? What significance did the entrepreneur's spouse have for his business activities? To what degree were his economic activities influenced by joining local voluntary associations? By combining data culled from the parish registers of the Swedish Lutheran Church, the poll tax registers and the primary source material for national trade statistics, the author has been able to identify the individuals who worked as entrepreneurs in Sundsvall during the period under investigation, what they paid in business income tax each year, the profes-sional titles they possessed and the places in which they and their relatives resided during their lifetimes. The results show that the majority of the most successful younger entrepreneurs active in the town before the introduction of freedom of trade in Sweden in the year 1864 were mostly immigrants from other parts of the country, who had furthermore come from rela-tively modest backgrounds. However, the social and geographic origins of these entrepre-neur's wives has proven to be of central significance to the success of the business, in in-stances where she had been raised in a business family from Sundsvall. The professional skill of the entrepreneur together with his wife's familiarity with the town, in all likelihood also combined with her inherited cultural capital, contributed to creating a demand from the local populace for the goods or services sold by the company
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