Sökning: "Paradise"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 25 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Paradise.

  1. 1. The Threatened Paradise : Tourism on a Greek Island

    Författare :Peter Smekal; Jan Ovesen; Julie Scott; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cultural anthropology; Greece; Kárpathos; tourism; anti-tourism; tourist typologies; repeat vacationing; tour guides; host-guest relations; festivals; guidebooks; tourist media; Orientalism; lifestyles; social distinctions; Romanticism; nostalgia; Kulturantropologi; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology; kulturantropologi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is about attitudes and practices of foreign tourists in Ólymbos, a village in the north of the Greek island of Kárpathos. Based upon several periods of fieldwork from 1999 to 2005, it focuses on the discomfort with tourism and the tourist role which is shared by many holidaymakers, and which also can be found in various types of representations of the area. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Malcolm Lowry's infernal paradise

    Författare :Kristofer Dorosz; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska språket;

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  4. 3. Places of Rest in Worlds of Ruin : Havens in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

    Författare :Andreas Nyström; Åke Bergvall; Maria Holmgren Troy; Mathias Clasen; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Post-Apocalypse; Apocalypse; Science Fiction; Havens; Pastoral; Paradise; Mobility; Narrative Theory; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : In the inhospitable and ruined landscapes of post-apocalyptic fiction there are often found havens, places of rest that provide contrast to the desolation of the wasteland. This study explores the generic functions of such havens. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Islamisk predikan på ljudkassett : en studie i retorik och fonogramologi

    Författare :Philip Halldén; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Islam; Arabic; preaching; Muslim preacher; sermon; khutba; homiletic; rhetoric; genre; narrative; text and context; phonogram; audiocassette; recorded speech; format of publication; history of religions; persona; Ahmad al-Qattan; Ismail Hamidi; Salman al-Awda; Saudi Arabia; Resurrection; Paradise; Linguistics; Lingvistik; Phonetics; phonology; Fonetik; fonologi; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ; Islamology;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation deals with Islamic preaching in theory and practice, with special focus on material recorded and published in the format of audiotapes/cassettes. One aim is to explore possible implications of the use of this special format of publication in the context of Islamic preaching. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Beastly Lessons: Natural Utopias in Seventeenth-Century England

    Författare :Sandra Iren Kottum; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; theriophily; animals; nature; utopias; emblems; empiricism; anthropocentrism; language of nature; beast literature; malleability; politics; animal exemplarity; animal language; colonialism; vegetarianism; early modern zoology; Leviticus; Royal Society; bestiaries; fables; The Parly of Beasts; The Blazing World; The Way to Health; James Howell; Margaret Cavendish; Thomas Tryon; early modern England; Golden Age; paradise; misanthropy; ecocriticism; self-fashioning;

    Sammanfattning : The present study investigates the motif of virtuous animal instructors in three selected English texts from the second half of the seventeenth century: James Howell’s The Parly of Beasts (1660), Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World (1666), and Thomas Tryon’s The Way to Health (1683). These authors proposed solutions to the challenges facing early modern England, most notably the Civil War, the emerging empirical science, and the incipient colonization of the Americas. LÄS MER