Sökning: "heroism"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade ordet heroism.

1. 1. Heroes and Victims : The Holocaust in Israeli Historical Consciousness

   Författare :Mikael Tossavainen; Historia; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jewish-Gentile relations; victimhood; heroism; Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day; press; use of history; historical culture; historical consciousness; Israel; Holocaust; History; Historia; Contemporary history since 1914 ; Nutidshistoria från 1914 ;

   Sammanfattning : The interest in the Holocaust has been growing continuously over the last decades, and this study deals with how the Holocaust has been perceived, interpreted and used in an Israeli context. The central theoretical concept in this study is historical consciousness, and the aim is to analyze the place of the Holocaust in Israeli historical consciousness. LÄS MER

3. 2. The Second Journey : Travelling in Literary Footsteps

   Författare :Maria Lindgren; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; travel; travel writing; tourism; guide books; authenticity; intertextuality; influence; recognitions; disappointments; images of home; gender roles; heroism; feminisms; biography; autobiography; museums;

   Sammanfattning : In a time dominated by mass tourism and the search for what has been termed authenticity, travel narratives are again of academic interest. This study seeks to demonstrate how travel writers from the 1980s and 1990s increasingly turn to earlier texts for inspiration and guidance. LÄS MER

4. 3. Den svenske mannens gränsland : Manlighet, nation och modernitet i Sven Lidmans Silfverstååhlsvit

   Författare :Linn Areskoug; Claes Ahlund; Margaretha Fahlgren; Anders Johansson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Masculinity; modernity; fin-de-siècle; conservative nationalism; the ideas of 1914; gender theory; ethnicity; bourgeois masculinity; the bourgeois family; nationalistic narratives; the critique of the modern society; national heroism; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the nationalistic imaginary in the novels of Sven Lidman, published 1910–1913. The novels hold forth a conservative point-of-view that embraces the bourgeois ideal of masculinity and the idea of the healthy, Swedish rural way of life as opposed to the destructive metropolis. LÄS MER

5. 4. The Hero and the Law : A Study of Silius Italicus' Punica

   Författare :Hannah Bartonek Åhman; Gerd Haverling; Marianne Wifstrand Schiebe; Mats Malm; Maria Plaza; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Silius Italicus; Punica; Flavian poetry; Hegel s Aesthetics; epic; drama; hero; Idealtypus; narrative; historiography; Vergil; Latin; Latin;

   Sammanfattning : This study of Silius Italicus’ Punica is executed by means of the analytical tools provided in Hegel’s Aesthetics together with the Weberian concept of the Idealtypus. The Punica and in particular a group of its protagonists are examined in relation to the “Hegelian Idealtypus of epic”, in order to identify the driving forces in the narrative and the pivotal conflict of the poem. LÄS MER

7. 5. Creating the Revolutionary Heroines : The Case of Female Terrorists of the PSR (Russia, Beginning of the 20th Century)

   Författare :Nadezda Petrusenko; Håkan Blomqvist; Eva Blomberg; Malin Thor Tureby; Södertörns högskola; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Russia; terrorism; women; gender; intersectionality; mythology; autobiography; biography; revolutionary underground; narrative; discourse; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies; History;

   Sammanfattning : Representing revolutionary terrorists as heroes and martyrs was a typical feature of the mythology of the Russian revolutionary underground at the beginning of the 20th century. This mythology described Underground Russia, the world of the revolutionaries, as an ideal country inhabited by ideal people. LÄS MER