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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 23 avhandlingar innehållade ordet innocence.

  1. 1. Le paradis perdu et retrouvé : Étude de l'innocence et de la culpabilité dans l'oeuvre d'Albert Camus

    Författare :Paula von Wachenfeldt; Eva-Karin Josefson; Pierre Schoentjes; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Camus; innocence; guilt; Ricoeur; Nietzsche; happiness; redemption; question of evil; consciousness; absolute and relative; justice and injustice; godless salvation; child; Le Premier Homme ; French language; Franska språket;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to investigate a recurrent idea that dominates the works of Albert Camus, namely the search for man’s innocence. A study of this notion, however, will to the same extent require an examination of guilt, since the signification of the first depends on the second and since both exist in Camus. LÄS MER

  3. 2. J.M. Coetzee's Poetics of the Child

    Författare :Charlotta Elmgren; Stefan Helgesson; Pieter Vermeulen; David Attwell; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; J.M. Coetzee; poetics; Agamben; Arendt; child; childhood; truth; innocence; ethics; natality; education; pedagogy; play; infancy; impotentiality; English; engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores how central tensions in J.M. Coetzee’s fiction converge in and are made visible by the child figure. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Skuld och oskuld : barnamord och barnkvävning i rättslig diskurs och praxis omkring 1680–1800

    Författare :Eva Bergenlöv; Historia; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; honour; virtue; motherhood; marriage; Religious culture; gender; Historia;

    Sammanfattning : The objective of this thesis is to analyse how judicial texts concerning guilty and innocent mothers were constructed during the period of c. 1680-1800. The two crimes of infanticide and overlaying have been examined. Source materials have primarily consisted of proceedings from the appeals court, courts of first instance, and parish meetings. LÄS MER

  5. 4. In Between Cultures : Franco-American Encounters in the Work of Edith Wharton

    Författare :Maria Strääf; Lars-Håkan Svensson; Kerstin W. Shands; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; American literature; capital; economic; cultural; social and symbolic; cultural encounter; Edith Wharton; hybridity; in-betweenness; mimicry; narratology; nineteenth-century literature; twentieth-century literature; otherness; women’s literature; Amerikansk litteratur; Edith Wharton; hybriditet; in-betweenness mellanskap ; kapital: ekonomiskt; kulturellt; socialt and symboliskt; kulturmöte; kvinnolitteratur; 1800-tals litteratur; 1900-tals litteratur; mimicry; narratologi; otherness ”den andre” ; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is a study of how the American author Edith Wharton (1862-1937) in a number of novels and short stories written between 1876 and 1937 depicts cultural encounters between Americans and Europeans, mostly Frenchmen. Chiefly concerned with Fast and Loose, “The Last Asset”, Madame de Treymes, “Les Metteurs en Scène”, The Custom of the Country and The Age of Innocence, each of which articulates ideas relevant to the theme investigated, the thesis also contains a supplementary discussion of The Reef, The Glimpses of the Moon, The Mother’s Recompense and The Buccaneers. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Den stora häxdansen : Vidskepelse, väckelse och vetande i Gagnef 1858

    Författare :Kristina Tegler Jerselius; Torkel Jansson; Hanne Sanders; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; Historia; History subjects; Historieämnen; historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation deals with an unexpected outburst of witchcraft accusations in Gagnef, Dalarna, in 1858. The object is to uncover how witchcraft accusations were used and interpreted, and how they fit into a larger picture of contemporary discourse. LÄS MER