Sökning: "new mythology"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 21 avhandlingar innehållade orden new mythology.

  1. 6. Minnets fosterland : Tid och teknik hos Atterbom, Geijer och Stagnelius

    Författare :Casper Virkkula; Paula Henrikson; Torsten Pettersson; Peter Henning; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom; Erik Gustaf Geijer; Erik Johan Stagnelius; Bernard Stiegler; Martin Heidegger; technics; technology; time; temporality; memory; cultural memory; myth; mythology; Swedish Romanticism; nationalism; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the form and role of Romantic memory as it pertains to the concepts of time and technics in the works of the Swedish Romanticist authors Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790–1855), Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847), and Erik Johan Stagnelius (1793–1823). The study examines how these authors use and reshape memories in an abstract sense – memories of historical events, mythological motifs, and metaphysical ideas – through the lens of cultural memory. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Imagining a Place in Nature: Using Evolution to Explain the Early Evolutionary Imagination in Literature

    Författare :Emelie Jonsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Victorian literature; Darwinism; evolutionary humanities; naturalistic cosmology; two cultures; mythology;

    Sammanfattning : After Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, Victorian literature overflowed with images of man’s new place in nature. Those images can be explained by modern research that builds on Darwin’s theory: the evolutionary social sciences and evolutionary literary theory. LÄS MER

  4. 8. 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

  5. 9. Santería healing in Cuba

    Författare :Johan Wedel; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anthropology; Cuba; Santería; Afro-Cuba; religious healing; medical anthropology; medicine; rituals;

    Sammanfattning : In Cuba, from the early twentieth century up until today, the Afro-Cuban religious tradition santería has stood for health, protection, and a meaningful life for many Cubans. Santería, which has its roots in Africa and the religious beliefs of the Yoruba slaves, is currently flourishing, with both Cubans and foreigners turning to it for help in instances of ill-health. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Sångaren på den tomma spelplatsen - en poetik. Att gestalta Gilgamesheposet och sånger av John Dowland och Evert Taube

    Författare :Sven Kristersson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Orpheus; empty space; performance; song; verse; Evert Taube; Gilgamesh; John Dowland;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this doctoral project is to explore an expanded role of the singer in an artistic field situated between poetry, theatre, music and reflection. The project consists of three parts: Firstly, three performances of songs and poetry: (a) Me, Me and None but Me!, a blank-verse monologue connecting songs of John Dowland, (b) Gilgamesh – The Man Who Refused to Die, a musical version of the Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic, and (c) The Poet and Time, interpretations of works by the Swedish chansonier Evert Taube. LÄS MER