Search for dissertations about: "American"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 522 swedish dissertations containing the word American.
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6. The code of Concord : Emerson's search for universal laws
Abstract : The purpose of this work is to detect a pattern: the concordance of Ethics and Aesthetics, Poetics and Politics in the most influential American thinker of the nineteenth century. It is an attempt to trace a basic concept of the Emersonian transcendentalist doctrine, its development, its philosophical meaning and practical implications. READ MORE
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7. Epistolarity in a Post-Letter World : Five Contemporary American Case Studies
Abstract : The rapid development of digital communication technologies over the past three decades has given rise to faster and more immediate forms of interpersonal communication, which, in turn, have brought an experience of reduced spatiotemporal distance between correspondents. Alongside these developments, epistolarity has made a powerful return in contemporary literature; a trend that has scholars of the form calling for new approaches. READ MORE
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8. Conserving the American Dream : Faith and Politics in the U.S. Heartland
Abstract : Recent decades have seen substantial changes in the U.S. political landscape. One particularly significant development has been the growing influence of a conservative coalition encompassing evangelical Christianity, interventionist foreign policy and neoliberal reform. READ MORE
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9. Atmospheric and geological entanglements : north american ecopoetry and the anthropocene
Abstract : Atmospheric and Geological Entanglements is a study of contemporary North American ecopoetry, a poetry which is characterized by a negotiation or subversion of established cultural representations of nature, and by a re-deployment of poetic forms such as lyrical poetry, pastoral and elegy. The studied poets experiment with form and question well-established categories such as human and nature, instead emphasizing connections between the human, other organisms, and inorganic matter. READ MORE
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10. To be or not to be American : Statehood and Peoplehood in Native American Self-identification during the Self-determination era
Abstract : As colonized peoples Native Americans have had a complicated relationship to the United States. They have faced the question of whether they should demand tribal independence or embrace American citizenship. READ MORE
