Sökning: "cultural conventions"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 47 avhandlingar innehållade orden cultural conventions.

1. 11. Moving Images of Literature : Transformations of Literature in Contemporary Video and Film Installation Art

   Författare :Tanja von Dahlern; Johan Prof.; Paula Docent; Jesper Olsson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Transformation; Adaptation; Intermediality; Cultural Memory; Video and Film Installation; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This study aims to contribute to a better understanding of the many engagements with literature beyond the literary field. More specifically, it studies different ways of staging and transforming literature in video and film installation since the 1990s. LÄS MER

3. 12. Kameran i krig : den fotografiska iscensättningen av Vietnamkriget i svensk press

   Författare :Kari Andén-Papadopoulos; Peter Larsen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; war photography; Vietnam war; media; visual communication; documentary photography; photo history; photo theory; Sweden; gender theory; masculinity; femininity; postcolonial theory; cultural studies; ideologies; medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Media and Communication Studies;

   Sammanfattning : The doctoral thesis deals with the problems of (news) photographic representation in general, and is based on an empirical study ofVietnam War photography in four major Swedish daily newspapers. A more specific aim of the thesis is to investigate and ideologically evaluate the representational strategies of the press photographs. LÄS MER

4. 13. Dialektelemente in deutscher und schwedischer Literatur und ihre Übersetzung : von Schelch zu eka, von ilsnedu zu bösartig

   Författare :Gunhild Brembs; Dessislava Stoeva-Holm; Claes Börje Hagervall; Gunther Schunk; Werner Koller; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; dialectal elements; dialectal features; dialectal markers; dialectal competence; author’s intention; means of textual design; communicative function; stylistical conventions; reception; fidelity; equivalence; translation variants; source language; target language; translation theory; German language; Tyska språket;

   Sammanfattning : The present study investigates the translation of dialectal elements in literary texts from the German and Swedish linguistical and cultural areas. Translation theory generally advises against the translation of dialectal elements in standard language texts thereby implicitly questioning their creative and communicative function. LÄS MER

5. 14. Persian Orthography : Modification or Changeover? (1850-2000)

   Författare :Forogh Hashabeiky; Bo Utas; Carina Jahani; Éva Jeremiás; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Iranian languages; Persian; Persian orthography; Arabic alphabet; modification; changeover; romanization; orthographic conventions; bound and unbound writing; Iranska språk - allmänt; Iranska språk; Iranian Languages;

   Sammanfattning : The present study provides a description of the standardization process of Persian orthography since the introduction of the Arabic alphabet, with a focus on this process in modern times (1850-2000). Using theories related to orthography standardization as its background, this work seeks an explanation for the prolonged standardization process of Persian orthography, and presents the frameworks within which this standardization has been carried out. LÄS MER

7. 15. Identity through the other : Canadian adventure romance for adolescents

   Författare :Clarence Larsson; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Adventure romance; quest for identity; unit of the monomyth; Canadian North; polarized worlds; myths; first and second-order system; psychological discourse; cultural critique; vicarious rite of passage; Hughes; Monica Hughes; Houston; James Houston; Markoosie; Kanadensisk barn- och ungdomslitteratur; Kanadensiska äventyrsromaner; historia;

   Sammanfattning : This study of Canadian adventure romance for adolescents seeks to demonstrate the cultural significance of the genre through close readings of James Houston's Frozen Fire and The White Archer, Monica Hughes's Hunter in the Dark and Ring-Rise, Ring-Set, as well as Markoosie's Harpoon of the Hunter. By means of a semiotic-structuralist approach I examine the texts as a signifying system conveying discourses that constitute a code of connection to the social context of contemporary young-adult readers. LÄS MER