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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 37 avhandlingar innehållade orden garden history.
11. Trädgårdsboken som text 1643–2005
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to shed light on the handbook as a multimodal resource from a reader perspective, with the material consisting of 32 Swedish handbooks on gardening from 1643 to 2005. The study draws theoretically on social semiotics and multimodal discourse analysis, as well as dialogism. LÄS MER
12. Passion Embracing Death : A reading of Nina Sadur's novel 'The Garden'
Sammanfattning : This doctoral dissertation is an analysis of the novel 'The Garden' (1997), by the Russian author Nina Sadur. Drawing on feminist literary criticism, it aims at providing a woman-authored text with the in-depth study the novel’s literary sophistication calls for. LÄS MER
13. De svenska städernas begravningsplatser 1770-1830 : Arkitektur, sanitet och det sociala rummet
Sammanfattning : The second half of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries meant a reform of burial practice across Europe. Urban graveyards were criticised as unsanitary and socially deficient and the authorities therefore urged towns to establish cemeteries on the urban periphery. LÄS MER
14. Knowledge and pleasure at Regent's Park : the gardens of the Zoological Society of London during the nineteenth century
Sammanfattning : The subject of this dissertation is the Zoological Gardens of the Zoological Society of London (f. 1826) in the nineteenth century. Located in Regent s Park, it was the express purpose of the Gardens (f. 1828) to function as a testing-ground for acclimatisation and to demonstrate the scientific importance of various animal species. LÄS MER
15. The Prima Porta Garden Archaeological Project. Terra sigillata from the Villa of Livia, Rome. Consumption and discard in the early Principate
Sammanfattning : This study examines a corpus of Italian sigillata from the Villa of Livia outside Rome, and presents the excavations during which it was found. Most of the material stems from archaeologically secure contexts, a refuse tip and dump dating to the late Augustan and Neronian periods respectively. LÄS MER