Sökning: "Negation"
Visar resultat 31 - 35 av 54 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Negation.
31. Ett språk, ett spår : En studie i Birgitta Trotzigs författarskap
Sammanfattning : The purpose of the dissertation is to investigate central and meaning producing themes in the oeuvre of the Swedish writer Birgitta Trotzig (born 1929). From a phenomenological viewpoint the oeuvre is seen as a totality, a life world, where the self, the world and language are interwoven in the act of literary expression. LÄS MER
32. The Half-Vanished Structure : Hawthorne's Allegorical Dialectics
Sammanfattning : Invoking Coleridge’s distinction between allegory and symbol, this dissertation makes the case for allegory and symbolism as two divergent perceptual modes. Allegory, it argues, stresses the necessity of perceiving the ideal through the mediation of negation (death), while symbolism flaunts the notion that the ideal can be immediately perceived in the inef-fable realm of the emotions. LÄS MER
33. The Constitution of Consumption : Food Labeling and the Politics of Consumerism
Sammanfattning : The power dynamics of consumerism is an important aspect of contemporary consumer culture. Within the field of marketing and consumption, consumer culture theory (CCT) tends to understand power in terms of agency, the ability of consumers to emancipate from a market infused by the culture of consumerism. LÄS MER
34. A three-valued approach to non-monotonic reasoning
Sammanfattning : The subject of this thesis is the formalization of a type of non-monotonic reasoning using a three-valued logic based on the strong definitions of Kleene. Non-monotonic reasoning is the rule rather than the exception when agents, human or machine, must act where information about the environment is uncertain or incomplete. LÄS MER
35. Development and 'The other within': the culturalisation of the political economy of poverty in the Northern Uplands of Viet Nam
Sammanfattning : The dissertation deals with the issue of poverty in eight villages in Northern Viet Nam during the current Doi Moi reforms. In all reforms, poverty alleviation has been a main concern for which market economy and economic growth have been seen as largely successful tools. However, in parallel to economic growth, the social inequality has increased. LÄS MER
