Sökning: "myth creation"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 avhandlingar innehållade orden myth creation.

  1. 1. The Burning Word : History and Myth in Maximilian Voloshin's Neopalimaia Kupina 

    Författare :Emma-Lina Löflund; Anna Ljunggren; Julie Hansen; Olga Peters Hasty; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Maximilian Voloshin; Russian Symbolism; poetry; Russian Revolution; neomythological texts; performativity; anthroposophy; Rudolf Steiner; theurgy; life-creation; myth-creation; semiotics; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Sammanfattning : The book Neopalimaia Kupina: stikhi o voine i revoliutsii (The Burning Bush: Poems about War and Revolution) by Maximilian Voloshin (1877–1932) depicts the revolutionary period in Russia. This dissertation analyzes the work’s composition, showing how it was shaped and reshaped in response to the dramatic events of the first two and a half decades of the twentieth century, and how it remains open and mirrors the ongoing development of history. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The World of the Sumerian Mother Goddess : An Interpretation of Her Myths

    Författare :Therese Rodin; Eva Hellman; Mattias Gardell; Jakob Andersson; Britt-Mari Näsström; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sumerian mother goddess; Mesopotamia; myth; Ninḫursaĝa; Ninmaḫ; Enki; kingship; midwifery; birth-giving; creation; death; sexual intercourse; gender; ideology; contextualization; History of Religions; Religionshistoria; Intercultural Studies;

    Sammanfattning : The present study is an interpretation of the two myths copied in the Old Babylonian period in which the Sumerian mother goddess is one of the main actors. The first myth is commonly called “Enki and Ninḫursaĝa”, and the second “Enki and Ninmaḫ”. The theoretical point of departure is that myths have society as their referents, i.e. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Lock-in as make-believe – Exploring the role of myth in the lock-in of high mobility systems

    Författare :Maja Essebo; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; myth; lock-in; geography; Malmö; Öresund; theoretical advancement;

    Sammanfattning : All human practices are, ultimately, set and defined by limits; be they social, economic, physical, or environmental. Yet even in the face of such realities, practices which transgress the confines of possibility remain remarkably obdurate. This thesis addresses the issue of one such practice, i.e. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Sentieri e radure : Le forme del cronotopo d'iniziazione in Alessandro Baricco

    Författare :Broula Barnohro Oussi; Luminita Beiu-Paladi; Krzysztof Bak; Alberto Casadei; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Alessandro Baricco; chronotope of initiation; Mircea Eliade; Mikhail Bakhtin; sacred; profane; space; time; quest; myth; chaos; cosmos; regressus ad uterum; descensus ad inferos; centre; verticality; italienska; Italian;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of the present dissertation is to study the elaborations of the initiation myth in contemporary Italian author Alessandro Baricco. The theoretical and methodological framework consists mainly of Mircea Eliade’s phenomenological theory of initiation. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Policy professionals in civil society organizations : Struggling for influence

    Författare :Joanna Mellquist; Adrienne Sörbom; Stefan Svallfors; Åsa Wettergren; Södertörns högskola; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; civil society; policy professionals; professionalization; organization; advocacy; strategy; member; mediatization; field theory; capital; decoupling; logic of influence; organizational hypocrisy; myth; Politics; Economy and the Organization of Society; Politik; ekonomi och samhällets organisering;

    Sammanfattning : The professionalization of civil society organizations coupled with an elite-driven policy process has fostered the rise of policy professionals in civil society organizations (CSOs). This dissertation explores the role and functioning of policy professionals in CSOs, describing and analyzing how CSOs’ hiring of such expertise contributes to processes of professionalization within civil society, including what that entails from a normative perspective. LÄS MER