Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion by Title
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Ett rum för sig. Subjektsframställning vid 1900-talets slut: Ninni Holmqvist, Hanne Ørstavik, Jon Fosse, Magnus Dahlström och Kirsten Hammann
(2010-05-07)The establishment of the subject and various aspects of identity that occupied the literature and theories of the late twentieth century are examined in this doctoral thesis. Focus is on five Scandinavian novels from the ... -
En fängslande vetenskap?: Kriminologi i Sverige, 1885–1965
(2017-11-02)The purpose of this dissertation is to write a history of criminology in Sweden 1885– 1965. It is an investigation of how criminology was established as a science – as an acknowledged field of scientific knowledge – not ... -
Förnuftets auktoritet. Upplysning och legitimitet hos La Motte, Thorild och Kundera.
(2014-04-23)Abstract Ph.D. dissertation at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2014 Title: Förnuftets auktoritet. Upplysning och förnuft hos La Motte, Thorild och Kundera English title: Authority of Reason. Enlightenment and ... -
Fria flickor före Pippi: Ester Blenda Nordström och Karin Michaëlis – Astrid Lindgrens föregångare.
(2011-05-09)Abstract University of Gothenburg Eva Wahlström Free Girls Before Pippi. Ester Blenda Nordström and Karin Michaëlis: Astrid Lindgren’s predecessors Ph.D. dissertation in Swedish with a summary in English, p. 304. Department ... -
God dag, min läsare! Bland berättare, brevskrivare, boktryckare och andra bidragsgivare i tidig svensk veckopress 1730–1773
(2013-10-09)The thesis deals with the early press of 'moral weeklies' in Sweden during the period 1730 to 1773, focussing on media technological conditions and the uses of the epistolary form. This genre, which initially followed the ... -
Hemligheternas värld: Bror Gadelius och psykiatrins genombrott i det tidiga 1900-talets Sverige
(2017-10-26)The aim of this dissertation is to examine the transformation of psychiatry in Sweden in the early 20th century. At the turn of the century, 1800–1900, a form of psychiatry appeared that in many aspects sought to differentiate ... -
Hendiadys in the Hebrew Bible. An Investigation of the Applications of the Term
(2012-05-10)It is evident that the term hendiadys, which is derived from the classical rhetorical tradition, has for hundreds of years been frequently applied to constructions and combinations of components in the Hebrew Bible. This ... -
Hjärtats härdar: Folkliv, folkmuseer och minnesmärken i Skandinavien, 1808–1907
(2012-05-10)This thesis deals with the new view of landscapes, buildings and artefacts as significant, memory-bearing structures that emerged in the nineteenth century. It examines the new memory-bearing visibility, i.e., the human-shaped ... -
In Search of the Self: A Study of the International Scene of Modern Advaitic Satsang in Present-Day Rishikesh
(2022-02-10)The north Indian pilgrimage town Rishikesh has since the late 1990’s become something of a center for the international scene of Modern Advaita. An increasing number of teachers and adherents from mainly Western countries ... -
INDEBTED BODIES, Debt and Decadence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
(2020-11-03)This dissertation investigates the relationship between linguistic and stylistic innovation in nineteenth-century literature on the one hand and shifts in the dynamics of the economic sign system on the other. It draws on ... -
Jeremiah: A Translation and Commentary on Jeremiah in Codex Vaticamus
(2010-05-17)This study investigates the Greek text of Jeremiah as found in the famous Vatican manuscript Codex Vaticanus 1209. It is the first major commentary to focus on the text of LXX Jeremiah in any modern language. Rather than ... -
Jesusbilden i samtiden: Ungdomars receptioner av nio samtida Kristusbilder
(2010-09-30)This dissertation focuses on the reactions of sixteen young men and women to nine two-dimensional images of Christ in a multi-religious context. For purposes of analysis, these reactions are then placed in critical dialogue ... -
Klädd i sitt språk. Kritikern Olof Lagercrantz
(2010-10-22)This dissertation concerns the Swedish writer and critic Olof Lagercrantz, who served as both editor-in-chief and as cultural editor of one of Sweden’s major daily newspapers, Dagens Nyheter, between 1951 and 1975. It ... -
Konsten att sätta texter i verket. Gertrude Stein, Arne Sand och litteraturens (o)befintliga specificitet
(2010-05-21)The dissertation has a tripartite subject: Gertrude Stein’s novel A Novel of Thank You (1926), Arne Sand’s Väderkvarnarna (1962), and the specificity of literature before an expanded field of general art production. By ... -
Kristendommens Morgenstjerne: Konvergerende teologiske træk med baggrund i østlig tradition hos John Wesley og NFS Grundtvig
(2015-12-21)This thesis deal with the common trait we find in the central parts of the theology of John Wesley and NFS Grundtvig, when we look at them in the perspective of some of the Eastern Greek church fathers and their theology. ... -
Les Figures féminines de la Décadence et leurs implications esthétiques dans quelques romans français et suédois
(2013-08-26)“The female figures of the Decadence and their aesthetic significance in some French and Swedish novels” This thesis compares Swedish and French literary prose fiction written between 1884 and1892 and its approach to ... -
Life Outside Life: The Politics of Immortality, 1914-1945
(2018-08-17)Between 1914 and 1945 a discussion took place amongst Christian and Jewish theologians and philosophers on the possibility of immortality and eternal life. The discussion had profound political and metaphysical implications ... -
Litteraturstudiets legitimeringar. Analys av skrift och bild i fem läromedel i litteratur för gymnasieskolan
(2015-10-08)The purpose of the thesis is to identify the dominant legitimations of literature study in five literature textbooks for the upper secondary school in Sweden and how these legitimations are realized textually and visually. ... -
Living Simultaneity: On religion among semi-secular Swedes
(2015-03-18)This thesis aims at contributing to a critical discussion on the supposedly far-reaching secularity of Sweden on the one hand, and on the incongruence and inconsistency of lived religion on the other. At the center are ...