Sökning: "cyclical time"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 43 avhandlingar innehållade orden cyclical time.
1. Zeit und Ewigkeit: Die Frage der Zeit in Kirche, Naturwissenschaft und Theologie
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to explore the possibilities of an adequate understanding of time by discussing concepts of time (and eternity) as they appear in church texts, theological thinking, and natural science from the Newtonian era to modern physics. Relationality, dynamics, multiplicity, and narrativity are suggested as indispensable dimensions of such an understanding. LÄS MER
2. Celestial Cycles : Astronomical Concepts of Regeneration in the Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts
Sammanfattning : This study analyzes the astronomical references found in the ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts. Chapter i presents the aim and method of this study as well as describing the primary sources and previous research. Chapter 2 deals with the conceptual background for the three cycles, as related to the year, month and the day as units of time. LÄS MER
3. Romance revived : postmodern romances and the tradition
Sammanfattning : This is the first study to identify and analyse postmodern romances as a new development of the romance and to relate this late twentieth-century subgenre to its tradition. Based on a selection of works published between 1969 and 1994, by A. S. LÄS MER
4. Business Cycles, Unemployment and Job Search : Essays in Macroeconomics and Labor Economics
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four essays. The first essay, "Separations, Sorting and Cyclical Unemployment", establishes a new fact about the compositional changes in the pool of unemployed over the U.S. business cycle and evaluates a number of theories that can potentially explain it. LÄS MER
5. Conflicting Times : Multiple Temporalities in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction
Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the intersection of temporality and politics in contemporary Chinese science fiction. Building on previous research on Chinese science fiction, science fiction studies, as well as narrative theory and historical theory, the investigation focuses on eight key texts written by the writers Han Song, Liu Cixin, and Baoshu. LÄS MER