• Projektionsfigur Deserteur? Aushandlungsprozesse nachkriegsdeutscher Diskurse anhand des Motivs der Fahnenflucht in der Literatur (1948-1961) 

  Schumacher, Anne (2024-05-06)

  This dissertation analyses the literary figure of the deserter in a selection of post-war German literature. Previous studies predominantly argued that the literary motive of desertion represented a form of resistance ...

• Rethinking Art and Life: The Multiple Entanglements of Allan Kaprow’s Happenings 

  Routledge, Laura (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 

  Hansen, Martin (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 

  Tiozzo, Matilde (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 

  Blomqvist, Rut Elliot (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 

  Evelina, Johansson (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 

  Wolcott, Catharina (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 ...

• Der Nobelpreis und die deutschsprachige Literatur. Eine Studie über die Vergabekriterien des Literaturnobelpreises 1901-1971 

  Tiozzo, Paulus

  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 

  Krook, Magnus; (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 ...

• Brotherly Letters: A Study of Narrative, Style, and Themes in the Correspondence of Moroccan and Tunisian Male Writers (Early 20th Century) 

  Dalhoumi, Mariam (2022-03-31)

• The Multiple Functions of the Reflexive Prefix in Hehe, Sukuma, Nilamba, and Nyaturu 

  Ngwasi, Lengson (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 

  Bruncevic, Mersiha (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 ...

• The Disruptive Semiotic: A Kristevan Reading of Thomas Hardy’s Fiction 

  Hellberg, Catharina (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 

  Ryan, Barry (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 ...

• Adapting Adulthood:Migrating Characters and Themes from Novels, Screenplays, and Films 

  Hermansson, Joakim (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 ...

• Vom Lesen lesen. Zur Konzeption und Darstellung des Lesers im postmodernen Roman 

  Barretta, Iginia (2020-09-07)

  I postmoderna romaner tillskrivs läsaren en avgörande roll. Läsaren träder ofta fram som fiktionaliserad figur respektive protagonist i texternas handlingar, där olika typer av läsning och dessas olika funktioner visas upp ...

• Reconfiguring the Hero’s Journey – The Monomyth in Contemporary Popular Culture 

  Sadri, Houman (2020-06-02)

  Den här avhandlingen analyserar hur den så kallade hjälteresan eller monomyten gestaltas i samtida texter och media. Det övergripande syftet är att undersöka vilken giltighet och relevans strukturen som skapades av Joseph ...

• The Trials of the Intertextual: The Translation and Reception of Tatyana Tolstaya's Kys´ in Sweden and the United States 

  Podlevskikh Carlström, Malin (2020-01-09)

  This dissertation analyses the translation and reception of Tatyana Tolstaya’s novel Kys´ (2000). The analysis includes, as well as the Russian source text, the Swedish translation Därv (2003), translated by Staffan Skott ...

• Aspectual classes of Verbs in Nyamwezi 

  Kanijo, Ponsiano Sawaka (2019-10-04)

  This dissertation deals with the classification of verbs in Nyamwezi, a Bantu language spoken in central west Tanzania. The major aims of this study have been twofold: first, to classify Nyamwezi verbs into different ...

• La expresión de cambio en español como lengua extranjera. Desarrollo y variación en la interlengua de aprendices suecohablantes 

  Fernández Incógnito, Ester (2019-09-13)

  Title: The Expression of Change-of-State in Spanish as a Foreign Language: Development and Variation in the Interlanguage of Swedish-Speaking Learners. This dissertation examines the learning process of the expression ...

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