Sökning: "Todorov"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Todorov.

  1. 1. Individual Differences in Multitasking : Support for Spatiotemporal Offloading

    Författare :Ivo Todorov; Timo Mäntylä; Fredrik Jönsson; Patrik Sörqvist; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; multitasking; cognitive offloading; cognitive functions; individual differences; executive functions; spatial ability; sex differences; Psychology; psykologi;

    Sammanfattning : In both the private and work spheres, multitasking among three or more activities has become and is continuing to evolve as a pervasive element of everyday life, and recent technological advances only seem to be exacerbating the process. Despite attempts to understand the mental processes that let humans successfully multitask, little is known about the functional cognitive level at which these mental processes take place. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Modeling of non-equilibrium scanning probe microscopy

    Författare :Alexander Gustafsson; Magnus Paulsson; Tchavdar Todorov; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; scanning tunneling microscopy; molecular dynamics; density functional theory; non-equilibrium Green s functions; Condensed Matter Physics; Kondenserade materians fysik;

    Sammanfattning : The work in this thesis is basically divided into two related but separate investigations.The first part treats simple chemical reactions of adsorbate molecules on metallic surfaces, induced by means of a scanning tunneling probe (STM). The investigation serves as a parameter free extension to existing theories. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Das Phantastische als Erzählstrategie in vier zeitgenössischen Romanen

    Författare :Ulrike Schnaas; Synnöve Clason; Elisabeth Herrmann; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The fantastic; Todorov; narrative strategy; devices and motifs; functions of the fantastic; liminality; ambivalence; the other; novel of the artist; hybrid genres; intertextuality; Karen Duve; Marie Hermanson; Majgull Axelsson; Elfriede Kern; Phantastik; Tyska; German; German language;

    Sammanfattning : The present dissertation investigates the use of the fantastic and its functions in contemporary prose, the initial hypothesis being that the fantastic is not historically exhausted, but continues to be productive. The major part of this study consists of a close reading of four novels printed between 1995 and 2001: Marie Hermanson’s Värddjuret (1995), Majgull Axelsson’s Aprilhäxan (1997), Karen Duve’s Regenroman (1999) and Elfriede Kern’s Schwarze Lämmer (2001). LÄS MER

  5. 4. Capriole in cielo : Aspetti fantastici nel racconto di Gianni Rodari

    Författare :Cecilia Schwartz; Luminitza Beiu-Paladi; Boero Pino; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; the fantastic; children’s literature; Gianni Rodari; crosswriting; Todorov; Rabkin; Held; play; word play; lightness; flying; the child-adult relationship; Italian language; Italienska språket;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this dissertation is to study the fantastic in the tales of the Italian children’s author Gianni Rodari. This analysis is grounded in the hypothesis that the fantastic is primarily characterized by two esthetic qualities, play and lightness, both of which are manifested at different levels in these texts, as well as in the relation between children and adults. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Luci e ombre : Fantastico e sovversivo nella prosa narrativa di Massimo Bontempelli

    Författare :Maria Tell; Luminitza Beiu-Paladi; Simona Micali; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Massimo Bontempelli; Todorov; Jackson; novecentismo; the fantastic; magical realism; subversion; alternative ideology; perception of reality; La scacchiera davanti allo specchio ; Eva ultima ; Il figlio di due madri ; Vita e morte di Adria e dei suoi figli .; Italian language; Italienska språket;

    Sammanfattning : Bearing in mind that the literary fantastic may function as a subversive mode of writing that questions the dominant society’s hierarchy of norms and values as well as its notions of truth and reality (Jackson), this dissertation studies the forms and functions of the fantastic in four narratives by Massimo Bontempelli’s (1878 – 1960). This is an argument that hitherto has not been the subject of any more thoroughgoing study by critics of this Italian author. LÄS MER