Sökning: "nostalgia"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 26 avhandlingar innehållade ordet nostalgia.

1. 21. Constructing Athenian Masculinities : Masculinities in Theophrastus' Characters and Menander's Comedies

   Författare :Henrik Berg; Gullög Nordquist; Margaretha Fahlgren; David Konstan; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Theophrastus; Menander; Athenian masculinities; R. W. Connell; early Hellenistic Athens; Theophrastus’ Characters; the comedies of Menander; hegemonic masculinity; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Antikens kultur och samhälle; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

   Sammanfattning : This study examines the construction of masculinities in Theophrastus’ Characters and Menander’s comedies. As these works were written in early Hellenistic Athens during a period of great political and social changes, there is reason to assume that also the construction of gender changed. LÄS MER

3. 22. Seven Senses of the City : Urban Spacetime and Sensory Memory in Contemporary Sinophone Fiction

   Författare :Astrid Møller-Olsen; Kinesiska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literary sensory studies; sensory studies; urban fiction; senses; Sinophone fiction; comparative literature; Chinese literature; Taipei; Hong Kong; Shanghai; literary studies; spacetime; spatiality; narratology; rhythmanalysis;

   Sammanfattning : The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the narrative mechanisms and imagery that fictional works employ to conceptualize and communicate complex human experiences of space, time and memory. Furthermore, this study shows how contemporary cities change the way we think about such basic concepts by analyzing narratives that employ and encourage multisensory, spatiotemporal understandings of reality characterized by permeable boundaries between the material, social and imaginary domains. LÄS MER

4. 23. Espace urbain et écriture des carrefours : Une étude de Chronique des sept misères, Solibo Magnifique et Texaco de Patrick Chamoiseau

   Författare :Christina Ljunggren Kullberg; Kerstin Jonasson; Bengt Novén; Mary Gallagher; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :French language; Caribbean Studies; Chamoiseau; Chronicles; Colonial City; Creole Culture; Documentary; Ethnography; Francophone Literature; French West Indies; Glissantian Readings; History; In-Between Writing; Martinican Literature; Postcolonial Theory; Urban Space; Urban Novels; Franska; romanska språk; Romance Languages;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the role of urban space in Patrick Chamoiseau's first three novels. Observing that the colonial city is often stigmatized in French Caribbean literature and that Chamoiseau's style changes as his following novels are set elsewhere, the study has as its goal an assessment of the ways in which urban space determines his writing. LÄS MER

5. 24. Vithet i svensk spelfilm 1989-2010

   Författare :Hynek Pallas; Astrid Söderbergh Widding; Claire Thomson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Critical whiteness studies; whiteness; Sweden; Swedishness; Swedish cinema; class; ethnicity; race; gender; phenomenology; kritiska vithetsstudier; vithet; svenskhet; nation; svensk film; etnicitet; klass; genus; fenomenologi; Film; Filmvetenskap; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation analyzes whiteness in Swedish fiction films between 1989 and 2010. It examines the relationship between whiteness and nation in Sweden, and whiteness as a national Swedish symbol and how this is reformulated at different times in history. LÄS MER

7. 25. Berättade liv, berättat Polen : en etnologisk studie av hur högutbildade polacker gestaltar identitet och samhälle

   Författare :Katarzyna Wolanik Boström; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; Poland; transformation; transition; life story; narrativity; narrative identity; biography; well-educated strata; proffessionals; intelligentsia; family; gender; social relationships; childhood; education; school system; everyday-life; proffessional life; work; career; social circles; field; informal relations; legitimacy; capital; distinctions; socialism; communism; post-communism; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Ethnology; etnologi;

   Sammanfattning : The study takes its point of departure in the notions of life story, narrativity and context. It is based on extensive life story interviews with well-educated professionals in Poland – academics, teachers, managers, physicians, artists – during the period of transformation (or transition) from ”real socialism” to democracy and a market economy. LÄS MER