Search for dissertations about: "Paradise"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the word Paradise.
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1. The Threatened Paradise : Tourism on a Greek Island
Abstract : This thesis is about attitudes and practices of foreign tourists in Ólymbos, a village in the north of the Greek island of Kárpathos. Based upon several periods of fieldwork from 1999 to 2005, it focuses on the discomfort with tourism and the tourist role which is shared by many holidaymakers, and which also can be found in various types of representations of the area. READ MORE
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2. Malcolm Lowry's infernal paradise
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3. Places of Rest in Worlds of Ruin : Havens in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Abstract : In the inhospitable and ruined landscapes of post-apocalyptic fiction there are often found havens, places of rest that provide contrast to the desolation of the wasteland. This study explores the generic functions of such havens. READ MORE
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4. Beastly Lessons: Natural Utopias in Seventeenth-Century England
Abstract : The present study investigates the motif of virtuous animal instructors in three selected English texts from the second half of the seventeenth century: James Howell’s The Parly of Beasts (1660), Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World (1666), and Thomas Tryon’s The Way to Health (1683). These authors proposed solutions to the challenges facing early modern England, most notably the Civil War, the emerging empirical science, and the incipient colonization of the Americas. READ MORE
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5. Paradise Regained. Swedish charter tourists visiting the non-ordinary
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