Sökning: "myth in literature"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 62 avhandlingar innehållade orden myth in literature.

1. 21. Scholarship and Mythopoeia : The ideas of language and myth in the works of Owen Barfield, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien

   Författare :Maria Kuteeva; Tony Crowley; Thomas Shippey; Department of English and American Studies University of Manchester; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; language; myth; philology; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the views adopted by Barfield, Lewis and Tolkien on the phenomena of language and myth as discussed in their academic writing and fiction. Part I (Chapters I and II) focuses on the study of language. LÄS MER

3. 22. Imagining a Place in Nature: Using Evolution to Explain the Early Evolutionary Imagination in Literature

   Författare :Emelie Jonsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Victorian literature; Darwinism; evolutionary humanities; naturalistic cosmology; two cultures; mythology;

   Sammanfattning : After Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, Victorian literature overflowed with images of man’s new place in nature. Those images can be explained by modern research that builds on Darwin’s theory: the evolutionary social sciences and evolutionary literary theory. LÄS MER

4. 23. I den värld vi drömmer om: utopin i Elin Wägners trettiotalsromaner

   Författare :Bibi Jonsson; Litteraturvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; General and comparative literature; Nordiska språk språk och litteratur ; Scandinavian languages and literature; matriarchy and mysticism.; motherliness; the Utopian scheme; love; emancipation; Elin Wägner; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this present thesis is to present the Utopian scheme in Elin Wägner’s novels of the nineteen-thirties: Dialogen fortsätter (1932) (“The Dialogue Continues”), Mannen vid min sida (1933) (“The Man by my Side”), Genomskådad (1937) (“Unmasked”) and Hemlighetsfull (1938) (“Mysterious”). With her authorship Wägner was aiming for a new social order, a radical change, polväxling (a shift of poles). LÄS MER

5. 24. "Me voy pal Norte" : La configuración del sujeto migrante indocumentado en ocho novelas hispanoamericanas actuales (1992-2009)

   Författare :Fredrik Olsson; Andrea Castro; Ken Benson; José Manuel Camacho Delago; Anna Forné; Raúl Bueno; University of Gothenburg; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Latin American literature; undocumented migration; borders; migrant subject; identity; difference; intercultural contact; hybridity; intersectionality; the myth of the Promised Land; rites of territorial passage; Spanish literature; Spanska med litteraturvetenskaplig inriktning;

   Sammanfattning : This study explores the representation of the undocumented migrant in the contemporary Latin American novel. Clandestine crossings have long been a theme in Mexican and Chicano literature, often narrated from a highly nationalistic working-class stance, but it is here argued that recent literary production on this problematic is significantly more heterogeneous. LÄS MER

7. 25. 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