Sökning: "Mythology"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 50 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Mythology.

1. 11. The Legacy of the Jaguar Prophet : An Exploration of Yucatec Maya Religion and Historiography

   Författare :Bodil Liljefors Persson; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Theology; Ballgame; Sacrifice; Mythology; Rituals; Books of Chilam Balam; Historiography; History; Prophecy; Maya; Religion; Teologi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with Maya religion and history. The Books of Chilam Balam is the collective title of a body of texts ascribed to the Jaguar Prophet. LÄS MER

3. 12. Till det omöjligas konst bekänner jag mig, Gunnar Ekelöfs konstsyn : Relationen mellan litteratur och bildkonst i kommenterande texter och lyrisk praktik

   Författare :Ann Lundvall; Anders Cullhed; Anders Mortensen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gunnar Ekelöf; view of the fine arts; literature; the visual arts; commenting text; lyrical practice; close-reading; dimension; interartial; metapoetical; gender aspect; dialogue; mythology; function; iconotext; ekphrasis; reception; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; litteraturvetenskap; History of Literature;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis, “To the art of the impossible I profess myself” Gunnar Ekelöf’s View of the Fine Arts. The Relationship between Literature and the Visual Arts in Commenting Texts and Lyrical Practice, looks into Ekelöf’s view of the fine arts in commenting texts such as literary and art criticism, essays, notebooks and letters. LÄS MER

4. 13. Haloed Objects on Mental Parade : Myth and Magic in Post-War Surrealist Cinema

   Författare :Kristoffer Noheden; Astrid Söderbergh Widding; Malin Wahlberg; Patricia Allmer; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; surrealism; André Breton; mythology; esotericism; intertextuality; intermediality; Wilhelm Freddie; Benjamin Péret; Nelly Kaplan; Jan Švankmajer; Gaston Bachelard; Walter Benjamin; primitivism; embodied experience; initiation; art history; Pierre Mabille; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

   Sammanfattning : Following the end of World War II, the surrealist founder André Breton organized the exhibition Le Surréalisme en 1947. In conjunction with it, he announced a “change in direction” for surrealism, towards the search for a new myth, replete with magic. LÄS MER

5. 14. Alma Natura, Ars Severa; Expanses and Limits of Craft in Henry David Thoreau

   Författare :Henrik Otterberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Thoreau; nature; nature-writing; ecocriticism; poetics; aesthetics; modernity; technology; railroad; autobiography; immanence; transcendence; rhetoric; perspicuity; obscurity; parable; animals; myth; mythology; Walden; “hound; bay horse; and turtle-dove”; “A Winter Walk”; Journal; A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers;

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7. 15. 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