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Textteori för läsforskare. ('Text theory for reading scholars')
(2009-05-12)The dissertation examines a prevalent problem in reception studies: how can we actually observe and describe the text (defined as an element that enables and restricts reading experiences) as either given and transcendent ... -
Sanna lögner. Carina Rydberg, Stig Larsson och författarens medialisering
(2009-09-16)In recent decades, the mass media have come to play an increasingly important role in society and culture. Media of every kind permeate not only our politics but our private lives as well. This development has had a great ... -
Märkt av det förflutna? Minnesproblematik och minnesestetik i den svenska 1990-talsromanen
(2009-11-05)In Western civilization memory has always attracted much interest. In the last decades, however, this interest has intensified at the same time as it has taken other expressions than before. The aim of this dissertation ... -
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. The Context and Significance of a Modern Hindu Personalist
(2010-01-04)This study explores the life and work of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874-1937), a Vaishnava guru of the school of Chaitanya (1486-1534), who, at a time that Hindu non-dualism was most prominent, managed to establish a ... -
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 ... -
Crucifixion in Antiquity: An Inquiry into the Background of the New Testament Terminology of Crucifixion
(2010-05-07)This study investigates the philological aspects of how ancient Greek, Latin and Hebrew/Aramaic texts, including the New Testament, depict the practice of punishment by crucifixion. A survey of the ancient text material ... -
Tro mig på min ort - oöversättligheten som tematiskt komplex i Bengt Emil Johnsons poesi 1973 – 1982
(2010-05-11)This doctoral thesis departs from the idea that the poetry of Bengt Emil Johnson (b. 1936) could very well be described as part of a long lyrical tradition, rather than as a reaction against this very tradition, which is ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Reading the Dream Text: A Nexus between Dreams and Texts in the Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity
(2010-05-26)This study deals with conceptions and practices related to dreams in early rabbinic Judaism. One aspect of the Jewish dream culture in particular is considered, viz. the tendency evinced in the rabbinic literature of Late ... -
Prayer in Peasant Communities: Ideals and Practices of Prayer in the Late Medieval Ecclesiastical Province of Uppsala, Sweden
(2010-06-24)The aim of this study has been to identify, explain and delineate praying among peasant communities in the ecclesiastical province of Uppsala, Sweden. Four aspects have been examined through the perspectives of ideals and ... -
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 ... -
Detta är min kropp: Kristen tro, sexualitet och samlevnad
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Samtalets möjligheter. Om litteratursamtal och litteraturreception i skolan.
(2011-02-17)The objective of this dissertation is literature discussion as a learning activity in school. The aim is to examine the conditions under which literature discussions may help students to develop their reception of a commonly ... -
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 ... -
Att sluta från början. Tidigmodern läsning och folkbokens receptionsestetik
(2011-05-09)The thesis poses the question, why were Volksbücher read and loved by some people in the early modern period and at the same time criticized by others. By doing so three important goals are aimed at : 1 ) to arrive at a ... -
X. Tre etyder över ett tema av Iannis Xenakis (1922 – 2001).
(2011-09-23)Ten years after his death, Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001) is generally acknowledged as one of the most influential composers of the recently past century, working in all genres of modern music – from acoustic to electronic, ... -
Discourses of Empire: The Gospel of Mark from a Postcolonial Perspective
(2011-11-15)Generally regarded as the first written gospel, Mark probably began circulating in this form during the 70s C.E, the hey-days of Flavian Rome. Reading Mark as a representation of a collective identity position, this ... -
Vikten av kropp: Frågan om kött och människa i Maurice Merleau-Pontys Le Visible et l’invisible
(2011-11-25)Abstract Helena Dahlberg: The Weight of the Body. The Question of Flesh and Human Being in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Le visible et l’invisible. [Vikten av kropp. Frågan om kött och människa I Maurice Merleau-Pontys Le visible ...