2024-03-29T09:28:35Z
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2017-12-08T09:22:17Z
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Modern Critical Reshaping of Shakespeare : Shifting Perspectives on Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra Among 20th Century Critics
Hansen, Kjetil Skjønberg
Almost four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare remains a dominant figure in world literature and theatre, far moreso than any other early modern playwright. To what degree is this seemingly everlasting impact created through a reshaping and reimagining of his works from modern perspectives? How do Renaissance viewpoints relevant to Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra compare to modern ones?
This thesis approaches these questions by looking at how different modern critics perceive themes in these two history-based Roman tragedies compared to how they were seen in the Renaissance, including the perspective of Shakespeare himself. The topics being looked at include: the tyranny debate surrounding Julius Caesar and Octavius/Augustus as representatives of empire, divine ‘kingship’ and autocracy, a discussion of how Shakespeare presents rebellion and democracy in Julius Caesar and an exploration of Shakespeare’s racial presentation of Cleopatra. In addition, this thesis also features an extensive analysis of the relationship between Shakespeare and his main source for the two plays, Plutarch. These questions are presented from multiple angles and perspectives, including different views found among writers of classical antiquity, Renaissance authors, modern scholars and, of course, my own personal views formed from taking all these different perspectives into consideration.
2013-03-12T11:50:16Z
2011-11-14
2011
Master thesis
Masteroppgave
http://hdl.handle.net/10852/26282
URN:NBN:no-30844
Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/26282/1/Masteroppgave_HansenxKjetil.pdf
Hansen, Kjetil Skjønberg. Modern Critical Reshaping of Shakespeare. Masteroppgave, University of Oslo, 2011
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oai:www.duo.uio.no:10852/38437
2017-12-08T09:22:17Z
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The Anxious Self: An Existential Reading of Jean Rhys s Good Morning, Midnight
Grøgaard, Barbra Elise
Jean
Rhys
Good
Morning
Midnight
Søren
Kierkegaard
The
Concept
of
Anxiety
Anxiety
Existential
Self
Identity
Aesthetics
Literature
Philosophy
Modernism
What characterizes Good Morning, Midnight from the very first page, is the extent to which the narrative is shaped by the consciousness of its protagonist, Sasha, and the mood that permeates all of her thoughts and experiences. She appears consumed by a form of restless despair, an anguish that entails a continual examination of her own consciousness and identity. This master thesis attempts an existential reading of Jean Rhys s novel, while employing Søren Kierkegaard s concept of anxiety as a theoretical crux. Thus aligning an aesthetic work of art and a philosophical concept so that they intersect, allowing them both to enrich and clarify the other. In a sense attempting to anchor the complexity of the theoretical concept in the specificity that is Sasha s experience, while also utilizing anxiety to describe the non-verbal despair that characterizes her narrative. Despite the immediate distance between the two components of the thesis, allowing them to resonate with each other proves to refine our understanding of them both, and at the same time suggests that there is an existential vein running from Kierkegaard and the concept of anxiety, through the modern and modernism, to Rhys and Good Morning, Midnight. Through a series of different thematic approaches this thesis explores the constitution of Sasha s self and identity, with a special emphasis on the form and function of narrative fragmentation, internal distancing, dissonance, ambiguity, paradox and indirectness. Especially in terms of the novel s ending, the concept of anxiety allows us a new set of tools to understand and interpret the change she goes through, thus exploring Sasha as an anxious self.
2014-02-23T23:30:20Z
2013
Master thesis
Masteroppgave
http://hdl.handle.net/10852/38437
URN:NBN:no-41472
Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/38437/1/GROEGAARD_MASTER.pdf
Grøgaard, Barbra Elise. The Anxious Self: An Existential Reading of Jean Rhys s Good Morning, Midnight. Master thesis, University of Oslo, 2013
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oai:www.duo.uio.no:10852/38050
2017-12-08T09:22:17Z
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Edmond - En oversettelse av David Mamets teaterstykke
Voldum, Ingar
Denne masteroppgaven i to deler består av en komplett oversettelse av David Mamets drama Edmond fra 1982 samt en kommentardel som går inn på noen av valgene jeg som oversetter har tatt i løpet av prosessen og bakgrunnen for disse valgene. Kommentardelen går inn på temaer som blant annet hjemliggjøring, Mamets bruk av kursiv, og hvilke språklige steg som måtte tas for å reflektere de forskjellige figurenes sosiale og kulturelle tilhørlighet på best mulig måte. Et av de viktigste momentene med oversettelsen var å skape en tekst med god flyt som ville korrespondere med det et norsk publikum ville forventet med tanke på stykkets urbane setting og hvordan mennesker fra disse miljøene faktisk kommuniserer på en muntlig og uformell måte. Med andre ord, å unngå at stykket ville få et kunstig preg som et norsk publikum ville avvist som urealistisk.
2013-05-30
2013
Master thesis
Masteroppgave
http://hdl.handle.net/10852/38050
URN:NBN:no-40419
Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/38050/4/Voldum-Master.pdf
Voldum, Ingar. Edmond - En oversettelse av David Mamets teaterstykke. Masteroppgave, University of Oslo, 2013
nob
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oai:www.duo.uio.no:10852/54512
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Essays on Incompatibilities: A study of E. E. Cummings' poetry and the concept of the uncanny.
Mukhiya, Shradha
This thesis explores the poetry of E. E. Cummings and the concept of the uncanny to locate how Cummings through the adaptation of various deviations positions the reader and the text in a circle of familiarity and strangeness. The relationship between habit, uncertainty and familiarity is proposed as the axis that simultaneously becomes the cause and the solution for the perception. Eight poems together with deviation styles found in Cummings’ poem is analyzed in this paper.
2016
Master thesis
Masteroppgave
http://hdl.handle.net/10852/54512
URN:NBN:no-57629
Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/54512/5/Mukhiya_Master.pdf
Mukhiya, Shradha. Essays on Incompatibilities: A study of E. E. Cummings' poetry and the concept of the uncanny.. Master thesis, University of Oslo, 2016
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