Search for dissertations about: "Mimesis"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the word Mimesis.

  1. 1. Huis Ten Bosch: Mimesis and simulation in a Japanese Dutch town

    Author : Staffan Appelgren; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anthropology; Japan; mimesis; simulation; simulated environments; ikukan; other space; material culture; modernity; tourism; regional development; Holland; Huis Ten Bosch;

    Abstract : With the advance of capitalism, new communication technology and expansion of mass media, places and culture increasingly tend to be deterritorialized, time and space arrangements are renegotiated, social and cultural relationships are commercialized and commodified. Simulated and themed environments have attracted considerable attention as concrete expressions of "culture in motion". READ MORE

  2. 2. Erotic Pathos, Rhetorical Pleasure. Narrative Technique and Mimesis in Eumathios Makrembolites´ Hysmine and Hysminias

    Author : Ingela NIlsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Eumathios Makrembolites; Hysmine Hysminias; Achilles Tatius; Leukippe Kleitophon; ancient novel; Eros; ekphrasis; Byzantine novel; mimesis; imitation; literary subversion; Byzantine literature; Komnenian literature; intertextuality; transtextuality; spatiality; Byzantinology;

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  3. 3. Before Audit : Essays on the necessity of imagination

    Author : Mohamed Mahieddine; Mikael Holmgren Caicedo; Gustav Johed; Henri Guénin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Auditing; Mimesis; Possibilities; The Audit Society; Imagination; Ontology; Verification; Business Administration; företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : The audit society idea has radically influenced our conception of auditing with its critique of the functionalist view that sees auditing as an objective verification of steady facts. The audit society thesis argues that auditing is a ‘technology of representation’ and auditors are involved in the construction of facts they are supposed to verify. READ MORE

  4. 4. Engineering Knowledge: How Engineers and Managers Practice Knowledge Management

    Author : Andreas Diedrich; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Knowledge management; best practice; mimesis;

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  5. 5. A Passage to Organization

    Author : Mikael Holmgren Caicedo; Birgitta Olsson; Alexander Styhre; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; concatenation; instantiation; metaphor; metonymy; mimêsis; mûthos; organization; organizing; poetics; rhetoric; representation; Business studies; Företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : How does action turn [into a] substantive and, if it does, how does it turn into action again to perdure or even change?In this endeavor I set out to study organizing and organization by asking myself how organizing becomes a product called organization and how that product turns into the very organizing whence it once was spawned. In other words, I set out to study what I denominate the movements between organizing and organization. READ MORE