Sökning: "modernity and ambivalence"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 avhandlingar innehållade orden modernity and ambivalence.

  1. 1. Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa

    Författare :Nicklas Hållen; Heidi Hansson; Stefan Helgesson; Tim Youngs; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; travel literature; Africa; modernity; materiality; material objects; things; commodity form; commodity culture; postcolonialism; Homi Bhabha; museums; exhibitions; colonialism; geography; space; trade; ethnography; the book; ambivalence; subject-object relations; fetishism; John Speke; Verney Cameron; Henry Stanley; Mary Kingsley; Ewart Grogan; Constance Larymore; Mary Hall; English language; Engelska språket; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Comparative literature; Historia;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. LÄS MER

  3. 2. A Rhetoric of Ambivalence : The Memory World of the Nazi Perpetrator in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones

    Författare :Alexander Kofod-Jensen; Sofia Wijkmark; Jonas Ingvarsson; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literature; ambivalence; memory; history; World War II; Nazism; Comparative Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : In Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones (Les Bienveillantes, 2006), a discrepancy is found between the historical account and the personal story, indicating the major ambivalence that arises from the creation of a historical world (noesis) as opposed to a fictional world (poiesis). This major ambivalence is connected to a range of minor ambivalences (and other elements of uncertainty) that are related to the novel’s treatment of the historical period of World War II in ways that unsettle and defamiliarize the typical standards of Holocaust representations. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Industrimoderniteten och miljöfrågans utmaningar : en analys av LO, SAF, Industriförbundet och miljöpolitiken 1965-2000

    Författare :Magnus Linderström; Jonas Anshelm; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Interest-organisations; modernity; ecological modernisation; environmental policy; Miljöfrågor; Miljöpolitik; Sverige; 1960-2000; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : The environmental issue has perhaps been the most difficult problem in the history of late industrial modernity. It has challenged the ideological and political confidence in modernisation and the cultural ethos of progress. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Att förhålla sig till moderniteten : en studie i Gertrud Liljas författarskap

    Författare :Maria Nilson; Litteraturvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literary theory; literature criticism; General and comparative literature; Cultural Capital; Dialogue; Feminist Literary Theory; Women Authors; Gender; Feminist Theory; Gertrud Lilja; Modernity; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori; Scandinavian languages and literature; Nordiska språk språk och litteratur ;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to present and discuss the author Gertrud Lilja with a special focus on her relationship to modernity from a feminist perspective. In the 1920s Lilja was regarded as an interesting and promising author. Ten years later she was seen as a conservative and popular author who wrote mainly for women. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Modern Genes : Body, Rationality and Ambivalence

    Författare :Niclas Hagen; Avdelningen för etnologi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Everyday experiences; Modernity; Everyday Life; Lifeworld; System; Genetics; Huntington’s disease.;

    Sammanfattning : The main objective of this ethnological thesis is to investigate the linkage between everyday life with a genetic disease and intrinsic patterns of modernity. The thesis is a compilation thesis that contains four individual articles each addressing the everyday experience of a genetic disease from different angles, with different research questions and theoretical presumptions. LÄS MER