Search for dissertations about: "20th-century"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 301 swedish dissertations containing the word 20th-century.
-
1. Towards a Poetics of Nostalgia : The Nostalgic Experience in Modern Fiction
Abstract : In recent years there has been a body of studies relating nostalgia and fiction in political, sociological, feminist, or historical ways. This thesis, instead, sets out to perform an unusual textual study of nostalgia in modern fiction in order to work towards a poetics of nostalgia. READ MORE
-
2. Requiem for a constitution : constitutionalism and political culture in early 20th century Sweden
Abstract : .... READ MORE
-
3. Hope and rust : Reinterpreting the industrial place in the late 20th century
Abstract : Industrial society has changed thoroughly during the last half a century. In many Western cities and towns, new patterns of production and consumption entailed that centrally located industrial areas became redundant. The once lively workplace and urban core became silent and abandoned, gradually falling into decay. READ MORE
-
4. The Language of English Newspaper Editorials from a 20th-Century Perspective
Abstract : This work is a corpus-based study of the language of English up-market ("quality") newspaper editorials, covering the period 1900-1993. CENE, the Corpus of English Newspaper Editorials, was compiled for the purposes of this study and comprises editorials from the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, and The Times chosen to represent periods at ten-year intervals. READ MORE
-
5. No limits : the 20th century discourse of economic growth
Abstract : The breakthrough of the concept of economic growth in economics marks a paradigm shift in thinking about the economy and its place in 'reality.' This thesis analyzes the 20th century discourse of economic growth, focusing its unlimited connotations. The thesis consists of four case studies, two introductory parts and a concluding discussion. READ MORE