Sökning: "Personification"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Personification.

  1. 11. Ideology and Symbolism in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy

    Författare :Fredrik Svensson; Magnus Ullén; Maria Holmgren Troy; Nicholas Monk; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cormac McCarthy; Pierre Macherey; Marxism; ideology; affordances; symbolism; ecocriticism; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This study homes in on the ideological significance of American author Cormac McCarthy’s literary symbolism. Focusing in particular on the author’s tendency to merge hu­manity and the environment by way of metaphor, simile, and personifica­tion, the study demonstrates how the ethical and political import of this aesthetic is open to dispute. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Bokstavligt, bildligt och symboliskt i skolans matematik : – en studie om ämnesspråk i TIMSS

    Författare :Ida Bergvall; Caroline Liberg; Jenny Wiksten Folkeryd; Johan Prytz; Astrid Pettersson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; mathematical subject language; systemic functional linguistics; social semiotics; semiotic resources; students; disciplinary literacy; mathematics education; TIMSS; Curriculum Studies; Didaktik;

    Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis is to deepen the understanding of mathematical subject language regarding three semiotic resources, written language, images and mathematical symbols. The theses also investigates high- and low-performingstudents encounter with mathematical subject language. LÄS MER

  4. 13. The Collective Identity of Anonymous : Web of Meanings in a Digitally Enabled Movement

    Författare :Sylvain Firer-Blaess; Jakob Svensson; Emiliano Trere; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Anonymous; collective identity; social movements; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Media and Communication Studies;

    Sammanfattning : The present dissertation explores the collective identity of the Anonymous movement. This movement is characterised by the heterogeneity of its activities, from meme-crafting to pranks to activist actions, with a wide range of goals and tactics. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Nut - The Goddess of Life in Text and Iconography

    Författare :Nils Billing; Saphinaz-Amal Naguib; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Egyptologi; Ancient Egyptian religion; goddess; mother; water; space; ontology; Pyramid Texts; horizon; tree goddess; Egyptologi; Egyptology; Egyptologi; Egyptology; Egyptologi;

    Sammanfattning : This study delineates the basic characteristics of the ancient Egyptian goddess Nut as expressed in funerary texts and iconography. The goddess is treated as conceptual in character (Begriffsgottheit), i.e. as an animate expression for the ideas that the ancient Egyptians associated with the sky: space and water. LÄS MER

  7. 15. De l'errant à l'artiste — Le Rayonnement d'Ulysse dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Jean Giono

    Författare :Marica Ivier; Sigbrit Swahn; Jean Arrouye; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; French language; Franska språket; French language; Franska språket;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis in a tripartite disposition is intended to analyse and synthesize conscious and unconscious reminiscences of reading Homer in Jean Giono’s works, especially the figure of Odysseus polutropos or polumècanos, and to elucidate how the modern author through his characters regenerates this topos. Despite the fact that these two authors sprang from, in time and space, remotely situated places in the Mediterranean soil, the agrarian and manufacturing societies to which they belonged had many similarities. LÄS MER