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  1. 1. Negotiating Identity : A sociolinguistic analysis of adult English speaking immigrants in Sweden

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Mojca Visnjar; [2017]
    Keywords : Identity negotiation; linguistic repertoire; Spracherleben; chronotope; language ideology.;

    Abstract : Due to increased transnational migration and globalisation, English has come to have a high status in Sweden, and is used in daily communication. The purpose of this research is to investigate how immigrants with English as their first language, negotiate their identity in Sweden, how they construct the need to (not) speak Swedish, and, finally, how their linguistic trajectories inform us about their linguistic ideologies and reported practices. READ MORE

  3. 2. Refraction, Heteroglossia and Chronotope in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway : Following Bakhtin’s View of the Novel as Centrifugal Force

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Eleni Tzimopoulou; [2017]
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  4. 3. Modern Fairy Tales: The New Existence of an Old Genre : Exemplified by the Books of Alan A. Milne, Tove Jansson and Eno Raud

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Svetlana Yashkina; [2016]
    Keywords : children s literature; literary fairy-tale; modernism; poetics; semiotics; folkloristics; myth; mytho-logic; archaic intertext; memory of the genre; fantasy; chronotope; A.A. Milne; Tove Jansson; Eno Raud; Elezar Meetinsky; Michail Bakhtin; Yuri Lotman; Vladimir Propp; Bruno Bettelheim; barnlitteratur; saga; konstsaga; folkloristik; semiotik; myt; intertextualitet; poetik;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to draw new perspectives to the theoretic approach towards the complex nature of the modern fairy tale genre and its transformation. The study is exemplified by two books by Alan A. READ MORE

  5. 4. “…my insides were like a house…” : A Study of Body and Space in Mercè Rodoreda’s La Plaça del Diamant 

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Sofia Iaffa; [2016]
    Keywords : Mercè Rodoreda; body; space; subject;

    Abstract : The present thesis is a study of how body and space interrelate in the novel La Plaça del Diamant (1962) by the Catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda (1908-1983). I will in the following argue that these relations are important effects of the literary form of the novel and study how they produce a certain form of subjectivity. READ MORE

  6. 5. “Ghetto Nerd at the End of the World”: the Decolonized Chronotope, Liminality, and Dialogics in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Clarissa Grace Chang; [2016]
    Keywords : contemporary literature; Junot Díaz; decolonized chronotope; decolonial imagination; heteroglossia; New Jersey; Dominican Republic; Afro-Latinidad; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Narratives focusing on People of Color often suffer from neocolonial treatment with narrow focus on race at the expense of character development, working with stereotypical monoliths rather than complex individuals. These types of narratives tend to use Whiteness as a “neutral” reference point. READ MORE