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1. 1. Murukak Katavul Valipatu : A Study of the Worship of God Murukan in Malaiyakam on Ilam and in Tamilakam

   Författare :Amirthalingam Selliah; Peter Schalk; Veluppillai Alvappillai; Pathamanatham Sivasuppramaniyam; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; murukak katavual calpu; murukam; anpu; arul; arivu; aram; valipatu; vanakkam; tiruvila; terottattiruvila; vitutalaipporattam; vitualai; vinai karma; cur; tunpam; paricu; vituperu uytiyiyal; inpam; ulakam uvappa; youth; beauty; divinity; festivity; fragrance; the excellence of god Murukan; the aniconic presence of tirumurukan; holy Murukan; Murukaism; love; grace; wisdom; religious moral virtue; worship; adoration; sacred festival; the chariot procession of the sacred festivity; battle for liberation; redemption liberation; action; the evil force; suffering; gift; soteriology; bliss; as goal of existence; let the world rejoice; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation highlights the continuity of murukak katavul valipatu, “the worship of god Murukan”, with its distinct characteristics, in the changing history of the island known as Ilam/Ilankai/Lanka/Ceylon/Sri Lanka. The institution of the worship of god Murukan in Tamil civilization is crucial to a historical understanding of the problems of the Tamil people in Malaiyakam where they have now lived since about 1800 (two centuries). LÄS MER

3. 2. Det illojala barnets uppror : Studier kring jan Myrdals självbiografiska texter

   Författare :Cecilia Cervin; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; autobiography; generic theory; reception; thematic study; réfractaire ; fictional truth; narratology;

   Sammanfattning : Jan Myrdal has often been considered a controversial author. During the sixties he was mostly regarded as a political figure, much appreciated by those who shared his political views and even more abhorred by those who did not. LÄS MER

4. 3. Bodies of vital matter: Notions of life force and transcendence in traditional southern Italy

   Författare :Per Binde; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; socialanropologi; Italien; magi; övertro; social anthropology; Italy; symbolism; cosmology; Roman Catholicism; social organization; vitality; folk medicine; burial practices; death; cult of saints; the evil eye; witches;

   Sammanfattning : Bodies of Vital Matter presents an innovative study that explores folk beliefs relating to the vital force of the human body and to the transcendence of the corporal. The time frame is the period from the unification of Italy to the Second World War. There are three principal themes of investigation. LÄS MER

5. 4. Snuten i skymningslandet : svenska polisberättelser i roman och film 1965–2010

   Författare :Michael Tapper; Språk- och litteraturcentrum; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Crime fiction; police; Sweden literature ; Sweden film ; Sjöwall-Wahlöö; Per Wahlöö; Olov Svedelid; Leif GW Persson; Jan Guillou; Henning Mankell; Håkan Nesser; Stieg Larsson; Anders Roslund Börge Hellström;

   Sammanfattning : The dissertation "The Cop in the Twilight Land: Swedish Police Narratives 1965-2010" considers Swedish culture and ideas in the period 1965-2010 as expressed in detective fiction and film in the tradition of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. It takes the Swedish police narrative tradition to be part and parcel of the European history of ideas and culture; a history that necessarily comprises America, by extension a European colonial power, which in the process of constructing its national identity eradicated its native population. LÄS MER

7. 5. Passion Embracing Death : A reading of Nina Sadur's novel 'The Garden'

   Författare :Karin Sarsenov; Språk- och litteraturcentrum; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ryska språk och litteratur ; Russian language and literature; gendered subjectivity; love incantations; socialist realism; chthonic forces; leitmotif; alcoholic discourse; schizoid discourse; aberrant discourse; Russian women s literature; General and comparative literature; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

   Sammanfattning : This doctoral dissertation is an analysis of the novel 'The Garden' (1997), by the Russian author Nina Sadur. Drawing on feminist literary criticism, it aims at providing a woman-authored text with the in-depth study the novel’s literary sophistication calls for. LÄS MER