Search for dissertations about: "Mythology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 22 swedish dissertations containing the word Mythology.

  2. 1. The Cosmopolitan Mythology : A Study of Cosmopolitan Storytelling on Netflix

    Author : Carl Ritter; Sven Ross; Bo Florin; Göran Bolin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Media and Communication Studies; medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    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

  4. 2. Creating the Revolutionary Heroines : The Case of Female Terrorists of the PSR (Russia, Beginning of the 20th Century)

    Author : Nadezda Petrusenko; Håkan Blomqvist; Eva Blomberg; Malin Thor Tureby; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Russia; terrorism; women; gender; intersectionality; mythology; autobiography; biography; revolutionary underground; narrative; discourse; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies; History;

    Abstract : Representing revolutionary terrorists as heroes and martyrs was a typical feature of the mythology of the Russian revolutionary underground at the beginning of the 20th century. This mythology described Underground Russia, the world of the revolutionaries, as an ideal country inhabited by ideal people. READ MORE

  5. 3. Imagining a Place in Nature: Using Evolution to Explain the Early Evolutionary Imagination in Literature

    Author : Emelie Jonsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Victorian literature; Darwinism; evolutionary humanities; naturalistic cosmology; two cultures; mythology;

    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

  6. 4. The Legacy of the Jaguar Prophet : An Exploration of Yucatec Maya Religion and Historiography

    Author : Bodil Liljefors Persson; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Theology; Ballgame; Sacrifice; Mythology; Rituals; Books of Chilam Balam; Historiography; History; Prophecy; Maya; Religion; Teologi;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with Maya religion and history. The Books of Chilam Balam is the collective title of a body of texts ascribed to the Jaguar Prophet. READ MORE

  7. 5. Haloed Objects on Mental Parade : Myth and Magic in Post-War Surrealist Cinema

    Author : Kristoffer Noheden; Astrid Söderbergh Widding; Malin Wahlberg; Patricia Allmer; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; surrealism; André Breton; mythology; esotericism; intertextuality; intermediality; Wilhelm Freddie; Benjamin Péret; Nelly Kaplan; Jan Švankmajer; Gaston Bachelard; Walter Benjamin; primitivism; embodied experience; initiation; art history; Pierre Mabille; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

    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