Sökning: "historicity"
Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 27 avhandlingar innehållade ordet historicity.
11. Samtidens gränser : Om språkreformer och historisk tid runt sekelskiftet 1900
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines two extensive language reforms that caused controversy and discord in late 19th century Sweden: a comprehensive spelling reform and a formally authorised Bible translation. Among the numerous disagreements and entanglements that afflicted the projects, one issue persisted more than any other: the question of historical time. LÄS MER
12. Appropriating King Arthur : The Arthurian legend in English drama and entertainments 1485-1625
Sammanfattning : This study attempts to show that, despite the scepticism as to the historicity of Arthur and the criticism of the genre of chivalric romance that arose during the English Renaissance, Arthurian motifs in drama and entertainments performed for the royal house remained highly relevant at this time. It is argued in this thesis that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were not a kind of Arthurian 'Dark Ages. LÄS MER
13. A Fair (Af)fair? On Subjectivation and Differentiation in Educational Capitalism
Sammanfattning : In our time the school is organized with the market as a model and schools are operating on the basis of a marketized rationality, yet within normative frameworks of inclusion and “a school for all”. Then it becomes increasingly important to understand how markets and inclusion have been seen as relevant categories in education and what subjects and relations of power these categories assume and produce. LÄS MER
14. Literary Loves : Interpretations of Dioscorides 1-5 and 7 G-P
Sammanfattning : This is a study of six Hellenistic erotic epigrams attributed to the third century BC epigrammatist Dioscorides. The introduction provides a critical discussion of interpretive aims and strategies of scholarly readings of Hellenistic epigrams in general, with a focus on concepts such as intertextuality, historicity, ideology and theory. LÄS MER
15. Health Data : Representation and (In)visibility
Sammanfattning : Health data requires context to be understood. I show how, by examining two areas: self-surveillance, with a focus on representation of bodily data, and mass-surveillance, with a focus on representing populations. LÄS MER