Search for dissertations about: "thesis on mythology"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the words thesis on mythology.
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1. Haloed Objects on Mental Parade : Myth and Magic in Post-War Surrealist Cinema
Abstract : Following the end of World War II, the surrealist founder André Breton organized the exhibition Le Surréalisme en 1947. In conjunction with it, he announced a “change in direction” for surrealism, towards the search for a new myth, replete with magic. READ MORE
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2. The Cosmopolitan Mythology : A Study of Cosmopolitan Storytelling on Netflix
Abstract : There has in recent decades been a cosmopolitan turn in the social sciences and humanities. Earlier studies have examined how media narratives facilitate cosmopolitan engagement with “the Other”, but the role of fictional entertainment is insufficiently explored. READ MORE
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3. Alma Natura, Ars Severa; Expanses and Limits of Craft in Henry David Thoreau
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4. Reading fleck : Questions on philosophy and science
Abstract : The present thesis is based on a scientifically-informed, contextualized and historicized reading of Ludwik Fleck. In addition to his monograph, the material studied includes his additional philosophical writings, his internationally-published scientific articles and two, thus-far-unstudied postwar Polish papers related to his Buchenwald experiences. READ MORE
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5. Imagining a Place in Nature: Using Evolution to Explain the Early Evolutionary Imagination in Literature
Abstract : After Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, Victorian literature overflowed with images of man’s new place in nature. Those images can be explained by modern research that builds on Darwin’s theory: the evolutionary social sciences and evolutionary literary theory. READ MORE