Uppsatsen behandlar Digimon Adveture - den första säsongen av tv-serien Digimon. Uppsatsen undersöker narratologi och karaktärer med hjälp av teorier och tankar från Vladimir Propp, Umberto Eco och Julien Greimas.

This thesis constitutes the first sustained attempt to locate twenty-first-century Anglo-American fiction in relation to Marxist literary criticism, resulting in a solid set of original-reference material for those undertaking work on writers Jonathan Lethem, Dana Spiotta, China Miéville, Thomas Pynchon, and Kim Stanley Robinson, or more generally on the intersections between literature, Marxist critical theory, and philosophy. The project uncovers the topics, concerns, and forms of a collection of contemporary cross-genre narratives that I take to instantiate a new political designation occurring after post-Marxism. Moving from the collapse of "actually existing socialism" to the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century, the study identifies five authors who demonstrate a willingness to forge fresh dialogues with Marx, Marxism, and left radical politics. Envisioning how society is shaped by the interaction of subjects operating within the capital relation, the selected fictions of these authors set out to recuperate and regenerate the Marxist intellectual tradition through an unashamedly anti-capitalist approach to the post-millennial world. In focusing upon British and American narrative, the study will redress the current disparity within the Marxist critical tradition between the pervasiveness of critical political economy and the relative lack of scholarly attention to Marxist literary criticism, and the contemporary novel in particular. In addition, it argues the contemporary moment offers an opportunity for the development of a more critical and rigorous Marxist conceptual knowledge that exists beyond the boundaries of postmodern epistemology. The imperative to pursue Marxist readings of contemporary literature has been undertaken by a small group of critics in recent years, and this study will seek to make a significant contribution to this emerging field of scholarly endeavour.

In Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel Always Coming Home, utopian and dystopian elements interact according to patterns inspired by anarchism and Taoism to criticise material excesses and oppressive social structures under capitalism. Via discussions of gender, state power, and forms of social (re)production, this Marxist reading proposes that the novel’s separation of utopia from dystopia hinges on the absence or presence of a state. The reading also suggests that the novel’s utopia is by its own admission a “mere dream” with limited relevance to anti-capitalist politics, and employs the novel’s own term “handmind” to show that the aesthetic and philosophical dimensions of its anti-capitalist sentiments encourage a reconsideration of utopia, to be viewed not as a fixed future product – a good-place – but as a constant process of becoming – a no-place.

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The essay The loving women in Shakespeare’s dramas is based on the fact that the dramas are performed circa 400 years after they were written. That makes it intresting to examine the caractars, and especially the female parts, and particularly the loving woman. To fulfill that, I have inquired Desdemona in Othello and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. I have used eight parts of the drama analysis modelled by Birthe Sjöberg as the main research methode. The scientific aim is to investigate the loving woman in two plays of Shakespeas dramaproduction, Othello and Romeo and Juliet. The question at issue is, how does the female parts in Shakespeare’s tragedies looks like when it comes to the loving woman? The research questions are – how are Juliet and Desdemona allowed to act? How does their love look like? How do they act? How are they as persons? What are important for them? When you investigate Juliet and Desdemona, you reach their husbands as well, so they become a part of the analysis. Are Juliet and Desdemona shaped by conventions, free will or by nature? These questions are discussed with help of Judith Butler’s theory of socialconstructivism. Desdemona and Juliet are both very loving and free to act. Both are very beautiful and Desdemona is much appreciated as a person. Desdemona is happily married until Jago enters the scene and demands revenge because of a post he didn’t get. Romeo and Juliet are happy together but theire families destroy for them. Desdemona and Juliet are shaped by their genus that their surroundings force upon them. Both women act upon the constraints they face. Desdemona trys to obey and Juliet plays dead to escape the marriage with Paris. The analysis shows that the female part is oppressed by the culture of honour and by social circumstances as the family feud in Romeo and Juliet. Love does not survive and triumph over oppression. The patriarchate wins over emancipation, especially in Othello. Desdemona is strangled by her husband Othello and therefor she is a victim of patriarchate. The men also suffer from the patriarchate, their love can’t be free and they also die in the end.

The aim of this essay is to examine how Donna Tartt’s The Secret History expresses the sublime experience and what its’ primary function is in the novel. The essay begins with discussing the concept of the sublime through a historical perspective, connecting primarily to Edmund Burke’s ideas and further contrasting them with the feminist criticism of Kristina Fjelkestam. A critical aspect of this study is to examine the notion of terror in the definitions of the sublime and to analyze how Tartt incorporates it into the story by introducing the theme “beauty is terror”, in the beginning of the novel. The essay introduces different techniques used to express this terror, and simultaneously touches upon gothic conventions – such as sublime nature – as well as the postmodern convention of “the unpresentable”, put forward by Jean-Francois Lyotard. This leads to a minor presentation of gothic-postmodernism – a fairly new genre which highlights similarities in the terror experience of the French Revolution and the one we experience from terrorism and media in the modern world. Further, the essay wants to demonstrate how Tartt uses Friedrich Nietzsche’s idea of the Apollonian and Dionysian – how it is concretely embedded in the storyline but also how it functions as a theme throughout the novel, expressing not only a Nietzschean philosophy but also using this dichotomy to further establish a sublime expression.

Vilken är kvinnans roll i samhället? Är hon, även nu på 2000-talet, främst ämnad att vara en modersfigur? Den normativa tanken om att kvinna är synonymt med moder tycks vara något som fortfarande till stor del lever kvar i dagens samhälle. Men måste varje kvinna älska sina barn och vara närvarande i deras liv?De tre böcker jag valt att undersöka i min uppsats behandlar alla på ett eller annat sätt den närvarande modern. De handlar om den ständigt närvarande modern som har sitt barn som en trygghetspunkt, den ofrivilligt närvarande modern och vad jag kallar den envägsnärvarande modern – hon som beskrivs ta hand om sina barn och är närvarande i deras liv trots att hon själv är död. Denna uppsats kommer även att handla om modrande – alltså det som sker när man förskjuter betydelsen av moderskap från essens till handling. Jag undersöker moderskap inte bara som något man är eller innefattar, utan även som något kvinnan aktivt väljer att göra i sin roll som mamma. Det kan ta form på olika sätt, och i en litterär fiktionsvärld får modrandet också lov att utvidgas, problematiseras och kritiseras.De tre romanerna som uppsatsen behandlar är Sara Stridsbergs Kärlekens Antarktis (2018), Karolina Ramqvists Den Vita Staden (2015) samt Agnes Lidbecks Finna sig (2017). Uppsatsens teoretiska del utgår framförallt från Ulla Holms Modrande och Praxis: En feministfilosofisk undersökning (1993).

This essay examines the sadomasochistic relationship between the main characters of the Twilight Saga from a psychoanalytic perspective, and looks at the family and gender roles in the Saga from a post-feministic view. Aspects also considered are the portrayal of female sexuality as something dangerous and negative, recreational sex as something perverted, and the pro-marriage and anti-abortion propaganda in the last two novels. The purpose of the essay is to reveal how the author’s personal, and to some extent religious, beliefs and values are validated through the storyline; how the relationship between the main characters, as well as their personal psychological and physical health, change after matrimony and parenthood.

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Whole document restricted, see Access Instructions file below for details of how to access the print copy. / This PhD thesis explores the Aotearoa / New Zealand influence in the post-World War II writing of English author, Anna Kavan. In response to her provocatively worded 1943 Horizon-published article on the socio-cultural features of that country, I sought evidence of the source of her apparent disdain. Imperialist in tone and disparaging of the post-colonial Other, the article contributed to the reflective dialectic of national identity of her temporary home. The discovery of unpublished and not previously discussed short stories, written during Kavan’s stay in Aotearoa / New Zealand, revealed a contrarily positive perspective, and offered an anomalous body of material that illuminate the early wartime experiences of the residents of Auckland's North Shore. Comparison between the stories in the manuscript and work published by Kavan since World War II exposed the compellingly autobiographical nature of her writing. This revelation was underscored by a second discovery, that of a previously-unseen cache of correspondence, letters sent from Kavan to her Aotearoa / New Zealand lover, the conscientious objector and author, Walter [Ian] Hamilton. The letters, unpublished short stories, and published work, collectively manifest an intertextuality which reinforces their status as autobiographical. Close analysis has determined that much of Kavan's 'fiction’ is in fact thinly disguised life-writing, a construct which would otherwise be unnoticed, in the absence of back-grounding evidence. This thesis further proves Kavan's authorial appropriation of thematic aspects of the Aotearoa / New Zealand vocabulary, geography, and historical aesthetic. The thesis also corrects extant inaccurate biographical material, particularly with respect to the years 1939 - 1943. Discovery of a small collection of photographs, featuring Kavan in a New Zealand context, has added impetus to the move to install her as a transient constituent on the continuum of New Zealand literature.