Search for dissertations about: "Old World"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 188 swedish dissertations containing the words Old World.

  2. 1. The Old World Journey : National Identity in Four American Novels from 1960 to 1973

    Author : Eva Zetterberg Pettersson; Elisabeth Herion-Sarafidis; Rolf Lundén; Fredrik Christian Brögger; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Erica Jong; William Styron; Mary McCarthy; John A. Williams; Birds of America; Fear of Flying; Set This House on Fire; The Man Who Cried I Am; international novel; journey narrative; European journey; nationalism; national identity; Old World; Europe ; America ; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket;

    Abstract : A commonly held assumption among literary critics is that the motif of the European journey is exhausted in American literature in the post-World-War-II period. Challenging this view, the present study claims that the Old World journey narrative lives on, but in new guises, and that it continues to be a forum for the discussion of American national identity. READ MORE

  4. 2. Outside the World : Cohesion and Deviation among Old Colony Mennonites in Bolivia

    Author : Anna Sofia Hedberg; Jan-Åke Alvarsson; Bengt G. Karlsson; Lars Hagborg; Simon Coleman; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Cultural anthropology; Old Colony Mennonites; community; social cohesion; boundary maintenance; margins; trans-cultural interaction; deviation; anthropology of religion; migration; Bolivia; Kulturantropologi;

    Abstract : This study is about community maintenance and social cohesion among Old Colony Mennonites in Bolivia. The Old Colony Mennonites constitute a Christian minority that traces its origin to the European Anabaptist movement of the 16th century. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Urk World : Hibernating Infrastructures and the Quest for Urban Mining

    Author : Björn Wallsten; Joakim Krook; Stefan Anderberg; Vasilis Galis; Simon Marvin; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; urban mining; infrastructure; material flow analysis; hibernating stocks; copper;

    Abstract : This PhD thesis concerns urban mining, an umbrella term for different recycling strategies aimed to recover materials from the built environment. More specifically, it focuses on hibernating urban infrastructures, that is: cables and pipes that have been left behind in their subsurface location after they were disconnected. READ MORE

  6. 4. An Old Order and a New : The Split World of Liam O'Flaherty's Novels

    Author : Hedda Friberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; O Flaherty; Irish Literature; English language; Engelska språket;

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  7. 5. The "New Negro" in the Old World : culture and performance in James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Nella Larsen

    Author : Lena Ahlin; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language and literature; Europe in African-American literature; Nella Larsen; Jessie Fauset; James Weldon Johnson; minstrelsy; whiteness; performance; cultural authenticity; New Negro; Harlem Renaissance; African Americans in Europe;

    Abstract : I denna avhandling studeras europaskildringarna i James Weldon Johnsons The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), Jessie Fausets There Is Confusion (1924) och Nella Larsens Quicksand (1928) och hur dessa speglar afrikansk-amerikanernas roll i den västerländska civilisationen. I 1800-talets afrikansk-amerikanska litteratur figurerar Europa ofta som symbol för frihet och kultur. READ MORE