Search for dissertations about: "Department of Languages and Culture."

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words Department of Languages and Culture..

  2. 1. Faces of Thoreau in American Literature

    Author : Steven Hartman; Ronald Bosco; State University of New York University at Albany Department of English; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ; Jerome Lawrence 1915-2004 ; Robert E. Lee 1918 -1994 ; Edward Abbey 1927–1989 ; Hayden Carruth 1921–2008 ; Walden; Civil Disobedience; cultural reception; cultural appropriation; literary reenactment; literary activism; intertextuality; iconography; canonization; American literature; reception theory; reader response; nature writing; political writing; literature of protest; cultural critique; biography; hagiography; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Amos Bronson Alcott; William Ellery Channing; James Russell Lowell; Robert Louis Stevenson; Mohandas Gandhi; Henry Salt; English language; Engelska språket; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; engelska; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : Doctoral dissertation supervised by Professor Ronald A. Bosco (co-supervised by Professor Judith Johnson and Professor Judith Fetterley), Department of English, University at Albany, State University of New York. READ MORE

  4. 2. Geometry in Varro, Cicero, and Vitruvius : A Philological Study

    Author : Erik Bohlin; University of Gothenburg Department of Languages and Literatures; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Latin language; Latin; Latin; Latin;

    Abstract : In antiquity the mathematical field of geometry was developed by the Greeks. As theRomans came into closer contact with Greek culture, they also encountered its repertoire of learning, of which geometry was a part. READ MORE

  5. 3. Ecologies of the Imagination : Theorizing the participatory aesthetics of the fantastic

    Author : Per Israelson; Anders Cullhed; Marcel O'Gorman; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Media theory; genre theory; media ecology; posthumanism; ecocriticism; neocybernetics; sympoiesis; ontogenesis; fantasy; the fantastic; comic books; William Blake; Alan Moore; J. R. R. Tolkien; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This book is about the participatory aesthetics of the fantastic. In it, the author argues that the definition of the fantastic presented by Tzvetan Todorov in 1970 can be used, provided it is first adapted to a media-ecological framework, to theorize the role of aesthetic participation in the creation of secondary worlds. READ MORE

  6. 4. Resource Lenient Approaches to Cross Language Information Retrieval : Using Amharic

    Author : Atelach Alemu Argaw; Lars Asker; Jussi Karlgren; Douglas Oard; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Cross language information retrieval; Amharic; stemming; MRD based query translation; transliteration; named entity detection; translation term selection; sense discrimination; POS tagging; Computer and systems science; Data- och systemvetenskap; Computer and Systems Sciences; data- och systemvetenskap;

    Abstract : Information Retrieval (IR) deals with finding and presenting information from a collection of documents/data that are relevant to an information need (a query) expressed by a user. Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) is a subfield of IR where queries are posed in a different language than that of the document collection. READ MORE