Sökning: "Henry James"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden Henry James.

1. 1. Decision Strategies : Something Old, Something New, and Something Borrowed

   Författare :Neda Kerimi; Henry Montgomery; James Shanteau; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Decision strategies; inference; preference; compensatory; non-compensatory; Psychology; Psykologi; Psychology; psykologi;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis, some old decision strategies are investigated and a new one that furthers our understanding of how decisions are made is introduced. Three studies are presented. In Study I and II, strategies are investigated in terms of inferences and in Study III, strategies are investigated in terms of preferences. LÄS MER

3. 2. Sakernas sammanhang : Om ting, människor och materiella relationer hos Henry Parland, James Joyce och Virginia Woolf

   Författare :Ellen Frödin; Elina Druker; Ingemar Haag; Anders E. Johansson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Henry Parland; James Joyce; Virginia Woolf; thing; object; artefact; nature; new materialism; material culture; the material turn; posthumanism; materiality; process philosophy; Gilbert Simondon; Elizabeth Grosz; Tim Ingold; modernism; 1920’s; modernity; Henry Parland; James Joyce; Virginia Woolf; ting; föremål; artefakt; natur; nymaterialism; materiell kultur; den materiella vändningen; posthumanism; materialitet; processfilosofi; Gilbert Simondon; Elizabeth Grosz; Tim Ingold; modernism; 1920-tal; modernitet; litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the ways in which the writings of Henry Parland, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf works to foreground things and decenter humans. While the exploration of human inner life is a well established theme within Modernist literature, the period’s fascination with the material and non-human remains underexplored. LÄS MER

4. 3. Faces of Thoreau in American Literature

   Författare :Steven Hartman; Ronald Bosco; State University of New York University at Albany Department of English; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ; Jerome Lawrence 1915-2004 ; Robert E. Lee 1918 -1994 ; Edward Abbey 1927–1989 ; Hayden Carruth 1921–2008 ; Walden; Civil Disobedience; cultural reception; cultural appropriation; literary reenactment; literary activism; intertextuality; iconography; canonization; American literature; reception theory; reader response; nature writing; political writing; literature of protest; cultural critique; biography; hagiography; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Amos Bronson Alcott; William Ellery Channing; James Russell Lowell; Robert Louis Stevenson; Mohandas Gandhi; Henry Salt; English language; Engelska språket; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; engelska; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : Doctoral dissertation supervised by Professor Ronald A. Bosco (co-supervised by Professor Judith Johnson and Professor Judith Fetterley), Department of English, University at Albany, State University of New York. LÄS MER

5. 4. Houses of Fiction. Henry James and the Art of Homelessness

   Författare :Celia Aijmer; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

   Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

7. 5. Appropriating King Arthur : The Arthurian legend in English drama and entertainments 1485-1625

   Författare :Elisabeth Michelsson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This study attempts to show that, despite the scepticism as to the historicity of Arthur and the criticism of the genre of chivalric romance that arose during the English Renaissance, Arthurian motifs in drama and entertainments performed for the royal house remained highly relevant at this time. It is argued in this thesis that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were not a kind of Arthurian 'Dark Ages. LÄS MER