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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 41 avhandlingar innehållade ordet liminal.

  1. 11. “One of the Most Intensely Exciting Secrets” : The Antarctic in American Literature, 1820-1849

    Författare :Johan Wijkmark; Åke Bergvall; Mark Troy; Orm Øverland; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Adam Seaborn; Symzonia; James Fenimore Cooper; Monikins; Sea Lions; Edgar Allan Poe; “MS. Found in a Bottle; ” Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym; Peter Prospero; “The Atlantis; ” Antarctic literature; 19th-century American literature; utopia; Symmes; hollow earth; evolution; great chain of being; race; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines a small body of 19th-century American literature about the Antarctic: Adam Seaborn's (pseud.) Symzonia (1820), Edgar Allan Poe's "MS. Found in a Bottle" (1833) and The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), Peter Prospero's (pseud. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Work Liminality and Liminality Competence : a study of mobile project workers

    Författare :Elisabeth Borg; Jonas Söderlund; Karin Bredin; Eskil Ekstedt; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Liminality; Work liminality; Mobile Project Workers; Technical consultants; Project-Based Work; Competence;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is about people engaged in project-based work, a work context that is becoming increasingly common since more and more firms are relying on project-based forms of organization. More specifically, the thesis deals with a specific condition arising in projectbased work, namely that of ‘work liminality’. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Post tenebras spero lucem : Alquimia y ritos en el Quijote y otras obras cervantinas

    Författare :Carles Magriñá Badiella; Leonardo Rossiello Ramírez; Victoria Cirlot Valenzuela; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; alchemy; analogical hermeneutics; censorship; rites; chivalry; liminality; symbolism; hermetism; Paracelsus; alquimia; hermenéutica analógica; censura; ritos; caballería; liminalidad; simbolismo; hermetismo; Paracelso; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This study focuses on two areas: alchemy (Part I) and rituals of initiation (Part II) in the works of Miguel de Cervantes, focusing on Don Quijote de la Mancha as my main case study.The first part analyses the function of alchemy and how it can be interpreted throughout the works and various literary genres of Cervantes. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Coal Lives : Italians and the Metabolism of Coal in Wallonia, Belgium, 1945-1980

    Författare :Daniele Valisena; Marco Armiero; Sverker Sörlin; Don Mitchell; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; environmental humanities; migration; environmental history; coal; mining; metabolism; Italians; ECSC; heritage; toxicity; geo-history; walking methodology; minatori; emigrazione; storia delle migrazioni; storia ambientale; CECA; patrimonio culturale; tossicità; metabolismo; geostoria; mineurs italiens; migration; CECA; patrimoine; metabolisme; geo-histoire; histoire de l environnement; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; History of Science; Technology and Environment;

    Sammanfattning : This manuscript focuses on the relationship between coal and the history of the over 300,000 Italian miners who moved to Wallonia, Belgium, from 1946 onwards, in accordance to the State agreement between Italy and Belgium known as “men in exchange for coal.” Notably, I use environmental history of migration to analyze what I define as “the metabolism of coal. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Passage to a new wor(l)d : Exile and restoration in Mahmoud Darwish's writings 1960-1995

    Författare :Anette Månsson; Bo Isaksson; Witold Witakowski; Tetz Rooke; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arabic language; Mahmoud Darwish; Palestinian literature; Exile and literature; Biblical motives in literature; Rite of passage; Arabiska; Arabic language; Arabiska; semitiska språk; Semitic Languages;

    Sammanfattning : This study focuses on developments of the exile motive in the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s writings 1960-1995. The sources consist primarily of Darwish’s diwans of poetry and articles published in literary magazines. LÄS MER