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21	”Men tydligast minns jag den hand som räddade mig” : En studie om journalistikens Estoniahjältar / “Most clearly I remember the hand that saved me” : A study of journalisms heroes of the M/S Estonia. Granberg, Hannes, Johansson, Linn January 2017 (has links) This thesis examines how the Swedish newspapers Aftonbladet and Expressen portrays heroes in the aftermath of the sinking of the M/S Estonia in September of 1994. Our research questions are 1) How is heroism portrayed in the news reports about the Estonia disaster in the newspapers Expressen and Aftonbladet? 2) Are there similarities and distinctions between female and male heroes? We have approached our material from a qualitative perspective analyzing 12 articles using critical discourse analysis. Upon completion of our research we found that both men and women can be heroes, but regardless of gender heroes are all portrayed with traditionally male attributes, such as being aggressive, rational and courageous. To find and understand the hero in news context, the victim plays a periphery but important role. Our result also shows that the victim is needed in order for the hero to perform his or her actions. The victim can be both male or female, but are all described with female attributes as being weak, dependent and fragile. The results of our study may be of use to understand how the journalistic practice actively uses stories about heroes to 1. personify a disaster, 2. summarize a fragmented chain of events and 3. project a distinction between the contemporary aspect of male and female. hero heroine Estonia survivor victim gender discourse analysis representation media journalism hjälte hjältinna Estonia överlevande offer genus diskursanalys representation media journalistik Humanities and the Arts Humaniora och konst Media and Communications Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
22	Grannarne och Jane Eyre. En komparativ studie. / A Comparative Study of the Novels The Neighbours and Jane Eyre Ludwigs, Katarina January 2023 (has links) The Swedish author Fredrika Bremer's novel Grannarne was published in 1837, and the English translation The Neighbours was published in London in 1842. This novel as well as other novels by Bremer which were published in English in the 1840s, were widely read and they were very popular with readers as well as with literary critics. As has been noted formerly, there are certain striking likenesses between The Neighbours and Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, published in 1847. In this essay, a comparative study is made of motifs found in both novels, such as "The Byronic Hero", and "The Strange Woman" as well as structures such as "the acceptance of guilt", followed by "judgement" and the possibility of "mercy", which are also found in both novels. In the last chapter, there is a discussion of the characters' perception of their respective worlds as primarily conditioned by religion, and how this is manifested in the previous chapters of the essay. A connection between Bertha in Jane Eyre and Hagar in The Neighbours is explored and a suggestion is made of a possible connection between Hagar and the ancient poet Sappho. Fredrika Bremer Charlotte Brontë comparative study byronic hero strange woman Sappho Mary Howitt Fredrika Bremer Charlotte Brontë Sven Linnér religiös världsbild illustrativ jämförelse genetisk jämförelse Sapfo konfrontationer byronsk hjälte Mary Howitt General Literature Studies Litteraturvetenskap

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”Men tydligast minns jag den hand som räddade mig” : En studie om journalistikens Estoniahjältar / “Most clearly I remember the hand that saved me” : A study of journalisms heroes of the M/S Estonia.

Grannarne och Jane Eyre. En komparativ studie. / A Comparative Study of the Novels The Neighbours and Jane Eyre