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Rethinking Art and Life: The Multiple Entanglements of Allan Kaprow’s Happenings
(2023-11-23)This dissertation examines Allan Kaprow's Happenings of the 1960s. It focuses on the ways in which these works spread out, reached into and became entangled with the social world in which they were written, organised and ... -
Sprachvariation und Sprachkontakt in Existenzverbkonstruktionen des Pomerano. Eine korpusgestüzte Untersuchung einer niederdeutschen Varietät in Brasilien
(2023-11-07)This study investigates the Low German variety of Pomerano spoken by descendants of settlers who arrived in Brazil around 1860–1880 from the European region of Pomerania. The focus of this linguistic study is on existential ... -
La Fragilité des Limites - une lecture de la critique de la modernité chez Alain Finkielkraut
(2023-11-02)For over forty years Alain Finkielkraut has been part of debates that have structured, and sometimes divided, public and intellectual life in France. He is an intellectual who arouses controversy, disapproval and admiration. ... -
Worldmakers and Worldwreckers in Decolonial and Developmentalist Imaginaries of Environmental Justice from Western Europe and North America in the 2010s
(2023-08-21)This dissertation investigates imaginaries of environmental justice from Western Europe and North America in the 2010s. It explores the relevance of research on predominantly Global South environmental movements and ... -
Towards Critical Thinking Skills in Higher Education – The Case of English Courses at Swedish Universities
(2023-08-21)The present thesis investigates higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) and critical thinking in English courses at Swedish universities. The rationale for investigating this topic is based on policy documents which state that ... -
The Role of Literary Texts in Swedish Upper Secondary EFL Education: The Teacher Perspective
(2023-08-10)The English syllabus at the upper secondary level in Sweden stipulates that literary texts should be included in the lesson content at all three levels of English, but their role is not clearly defined. The overarching ... -
Pound's Four Pages: "literary Camouflage" and Postwar Anonymous Propaganda
(2022)This essay examines Ezra Pound's behind-the-scenes control of the little review Four Pages, which ran for fifteen issues from 1948 to 1951. After his return to the United States in 1945 to face charges of treason, Pound ... -
Falsche Freunde Nützliches für schwedische Deutschlerner
(2023)Falska vänner, vad menas med detta? Härmed menas ordpar från två olika språk, som till det yttre har en stor likhet med varandra, men som i respektive språk har olika betydelser. Likheten kan vara på olika plan, dels ... -
Der Nobelpreis und die deutschsprachige Literatur. Eine Studie über die Vergabekriterien des Literaturnobelpreises 1901-1971
Detta är en historisk studie om Nobelpriset i litteratur och dess kriterier utifrån fallet tyska författare som nominerades till detta pris mellan 1901 och 1971. Den bygger på en kritisk undersökning av till största delen ... -
Nature and Metamorphosis: A Study of Carl Adolph Agardh’s Latin Dissertations and Monographs on Botany and Biology
(2022-10-24)Carl Adolph Agardh (1785-1859), professor of botany and practical economy at Lund University, published a large corpus of Latin dissertations and monographs on the subjects of plant systematisation and plant physiology ... -
The Multiple Functions of the Reflexive Prefix in Hehe, Sukuma, Nilamba, and Nyaturu
(2021-10-21)This dissertation describes and analyses the multiple functions of the reflexive prefix in four North Eastern Bantu languages, Hehe, Sukuma, Nilamba, and Nyaturu, all spoken in Tanzania. Apart from encoding the reflexive ... -
Le sommeil dans À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust: une étude intertextuelle
(2021-10-05)This thesis examines the intertextual aspects of the sleep motif in À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust. Literary scholars and theorists have generally iden- tified two dominant ways of depicting sleep in ... -
Ich kan – ich könne – ich kann. Eine Reise schwedischer Schüler durch die Welt der deutschen Verben
(2021-09-28)Wenn man Deutsch als Fremdsprache unterrichtet, geschieht es häufig, dass man als Lehrkraft neue Formen erklärt und Lerner diese in verschiedenen Übungen verwenden lässt, um kurz darauf feststellen zu müssen, dass sich die ... -
The Disruptive Semiotic: A Kristevan Reading of Thomas Hardy’s Fiction
(2021-05-11)Avhandlingen analyserar Thomas Hardys romaner med syfte att utröna varför de oftast väcker en känsla av ambivalens i läsaren. Med utgångspunkt ifrån Julia Kristevas teori om det semiotiska, enligt vilken intertextualitet ... -
The Curve of an Emotion: A Study of Change in the Portrayal of Children and Childhood in the Literature of James Joyce
(2021-02-09)Literary theorists and social historians consider fictional texts to be important for the study of children and childhood. James Joyce’s fiction is considered important for understanding Irish childhoods, and Joyce’s ... -
Trilingual Ng’hwele-Swahili-English and Swahili-Ng’hwele-English wordlist
(2021-02)This trilingual wordlist Ngh’wele-Swahili-English originates from material that was developed by and used in the project “Language Use and Language Teaching in Eastern Africa” during the early seventies. -
Adapting Adulthood:Migrating Characters and Themes from Novels, Screenplays, and Films
(2021-01-27)När romaner adapteras till film förändras oundvikligen fiktionens karaktärer i processen. Det gäller även det tematiska innehållet. Denna avhandling betraktar karaktärerna och det tematiska innehållet i adapterad fiktion ...