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1	Gentlemen - en degenerationsroman? : Dekadensen i Klas Östergrens Gentlemen / Gentlemen - a Degenerational Novel? : Decadence in Gentlemen by Klas Östergren Allard, Marcus January 2010 (has links) Denna uppsats undersöker dekadensens betydelse för Klas Östergrens generationsroman Gentlemen (1980). Syftet är dels att uppmärksamma ett hittills förbisett författarskap, dels att applicera en teori som kan belysa Gentlemen. Frågeställningen utgår därmed ifrån hur dekadensen återspeglas i romanens huvudkaraktärsskildringar, samhällsstämningar och form. Uppsatsens dekadensdefinition grundar sig i Paul Bourgets Théorie de la decadence (1883), där han skildrar samhällets, individens och språkets förfall. Utifrån dessa tankar antar jag en bred dekadensdefinition som fokuserar människans ambivalens inför att leva i en värdemässigt förfallen värld. Dekadensteorin är därmed utgångspunkten för analysen där jag genom närläsning urskiljer framträdande dekadenta drag. Framförallt betydande är den s.k. Makten, och dess förväntningar på lojalitet, som orsak till undergångsstämningar. För att hantera samtidens mörker blir konsten en utväg likt, dekadensens artificiella paradis. Henry gör likt dandyn konst av sig själv och sina trygghetsskapande vardagsritualer, Leo försöker sin illojalitet trogen avslöja sanningen om Maktens lögner i sin poesi, och berättaren Klas berättar sanningen om Henry och Leo genom att skriva Gentlemen. Genom en homodiegetiskt berättare upplöses karaktärerna till deras handlingar, och intrigen till detaljerna. Därmed återfinns dekadensen både i bokens tematik och estetik. / This essay examines the importance of decadence in the generational novel Gentlemen (1980) by Klas Östergren. The aim is partly to draw attention to a neglected authorship, partly to apply a theory that can illuminate Gentlemen. That is why I ask how decadence is reflected in the novel's main characters, community atmosphere and form. My definition of decadence is based on Paul Bourget's Theorie de la decadence (1883), in which he portrays society, individuals and the language's decline. With these thoughts in mind, I assume a broad definition of decadence that focuses on man's ambivalence towards life in a world that is fallen in sense of values. The theory of decadence is thus the starting point of this analysis through close reading, where I discern prominent aspects of decadence. Especially significant is the so-called Makten (The Force), and its claims for loyalty, as a cause of apocalyptic atmosphere. In order to deal with this dark, contemporary period, art becomes a refuge in similar ways as the artificial paradises of the Decadent era. Henry, like a dandy turns himself and his comforting everyday rituals into art; Leo, faithful to his disloyalty, tries to uncover the truth about the lies of Makten in his poetry; and Klas the narrator tells the truth about Henry and Leo by writing Gentlemen. By a homodiegetic narrator the characters are dissolved into their actions and the plot into details. Thus, both the book's aesthetics and themes can be traced to decadence. klas östergren gentlemen generational novel decadence degeneration decay klas östergren gentlemen generationsroman dekadens degeneration förfall Literature Litteraturvetenskap
2	<em>Gentlemen</em> - en degenerationsroman? : Dekadensen i Klas Östergrens <em>Gentlemen</em> / <em>Gentlemen</em> - a Degenerational Novel? : Decadence in <em>Gentlemen</em> by Klas Östergren Allard, Marcus January 2010 (has links) <p>Denna uppsats undersöker dekadensens betydelse för Klas Östergrens generationsroman <em>Gentlemen </em>(1980). Syftet är dels att uppmärksamma ett hittills förbisett författarskap, dels att applicera en teori som kan belysa <em>Gentlemen</em>. Frågeställningen utgår därmed ifrån hur dekadensen återspeglas i romanens huvudkaraktärsskildringar, samhällsstämningar och form.</p><p>Uppsatsens dekadensdefinition grundar sig i Paul Bourgets <em>Théorie de la decadence </em>(1883), där han skildrar samhällets, individens och språkets förfall. Utifrån dessa tankar antar jag en bred dekadensdefinition som fokuserar människans ambivalens inför att leva i en värdemässigt förfallen värld. Dekadensteorin är därmed utgångspunkten för analysen där jag genom närläsning urskiljer framträdande dekadenta drag.</p><p>Framförallt betydande är den s.k. Makten, och dess förväntningar på lojalitet, som orsak till undergångsstämningar. För att hantera samtidens mörker blir konsten en utväg likt, dekadensens artificiella paradis. Henry gör likt dandyn konst av sig själv och sina trygghetsskapande vardagsritualer, Leo försöker sin illojalitet trogen avslöja sanningen om Maktens lögner i sin poesi, och berättaren Klas berättar sanningen om Henry och Leo genom att skriva <em>Gentlemen</em>. Genom en homodiegetiskt berättare upplöses karaktärerna till deras handlingar, och intrigen till detaljerna. Därmed återfinns dekadensen både i bokens tematik och estetik.</p> / <p>This essay examines the importance of decadence in the generational novel <em>Gentlemen </em>(1980) by Klas Östergren. The aim is partly to draw attention to a neglected authorship, partly to apply a theory that can illuminate <em>Gentlemen.</em> That is why I ask how decadence is reflected in the novel's main characters, community atmosphere and form.</p><p>My definition of decadence is based on Paul Bourget's <em>Theorie de la decadence</em> (1883), in which he portrays society, individuals and the language's decline. With these thoughts in mind, I assume a broad definition of decadence that focuses on man's ambivalence towards life in a world that is fallen in sense of values. The theory of decadence is thus the starting point of this analysis through close reading, where I discern prominent aspects of decadence.</p><p>Especially significant is the so-called Makten (The Force), and its claims for loyalty, as a cause of apocalyptic atmosphere. In order to deal with this dark, contemporary period, art becomes a refuge in similar ways as the artificial paradises of the Decadent era. Henry, like a dandy turns himself and his comforting everyday rituals into art; Leo, faithful to his disloyalty, tries to uncover the truth about the lies of Makten in his poetry; and Klas the narrator tells the truth about Henry and Leo by writing <em>Gentlemen</em>. By a homodiegetic narrator the characters are dissolved into their actions and the plot into details. Thus, both the book's aesthetics and themes can be traced to decadence.</p> klas östergren gentlemen generational novel decadence degeneration decay klas östergren gentlemen generationsroman dekadens degeneration förfall Literature Litteraturvetenskap
3	The dryland diaries 2014 September 1900 (has links) The Dryland Diaries is a multigenerational narrative in the epistolary style, a tale of four women, central character Luka; her mother Lenore; grandmother Charlotte; and great-grandmother Annie – cast in the Quebecoise tradition of the roman du terroir, invoking place and family, the primal terroir of a storyteller. The novel is driven by three acts of violence – the possible murder of Annie’s husband, Jordan, by her Hutterite father; the rape of Charlotte; and the probable murder of Lenore by a notorious serial killer. Set in rural Saskatchewan and Vancouver, Luka, a single mother, finds Annie’s and Charlotte’s journals in the basement of her farm home, where both her predecessors also lived. She reads their stories while attempting to come to terms with her search for her missing mother, and with her attraction to her former flame, Earl, now married. Luka learns that Jordan disappeared shortly after the Canadian government enacted conscription for farmers in the First World War, when Annie became a stud horsewoman, her daughter Charlotte born before the war ended. Letters and newspaper clippings trace the family’s life through the drought and Great Depression; then Charlotte’s diaries reveal her rape at Danceland during the Second World War. Her daughter, Lenore, grows up off-balance emotionally, and abandons her daughters. Luka returns to Vancouver and learns her mother’s fate. Told from Luka’s point of view, in first-person narrative with intercutting diary excerpts and third-person narratives, the novel examines how violence percolates through generations. It also examines how mothers influence their children, the role of art, how the natural world influences a life, and questions our definition of “home.” At its heart, the novel is a story about what makes a family a family, about choices we make toward happiness, and about how violence perpetuates itself through the generations. Inspired by Margaret Lawrence’s The Stone Angel, Carol Shields’ The Stone Diaries, and the place-particular writing of Annie Proulx and Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Dryland Diaries paints a family portrait of loss, hope and redemption, locating it on the boundaries of historical fiction, firmly within the realm of epistolary and intergenerational narrative. epistolary novel intergenerational novel prairie roman du terroir historical fiction family violence flood Canadian fiction multi-generational novel missing women Danceland rape Hutterites Ukrainian internment Downtown Eastside The Only conscientious objector First World War Second World War WWI WWII horses farm accidents Temperance Street Saskatoon Vancouver rodeo murder dee Hobsbawn-Smith.
4	Das bedingte Selbst / Familie, Identität und Geschichte im zeitgenössischen Generationenroman / The Conditioned Self / Family, Identity and History in Contemporary Generationel Novels Neuschäfer, Markus 23 May 2012 (has links) No description available. 100 Generationenromane Familienromane Generationsroman Kultursoziologie Gegenwartsliteratur Identität Geschichte Familie Familienbilder Motivforschung Thematologie Postindividualismus Empowerment 68er Zeitzeugen Enkelgeneration Familienkrise Nachgeborenen Autobiographie Generation generational novel family novel german literature family sociology identity in literature autobiographical novels Günter Grass: Im Krebsgang Arno Geiger: Es geht uns gut Stefan Wackwitz: Ein unsichtbares Land Reinhard Jirgl: Die Unvollendeten Sabine Schiffner: Kindbettfieber Tanja Dückers: Himmelskörper John von Düffel: Houwelandt Gila Lustiger: Es geht uns gut history memory German history Philosophie (PPN619942320)

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