Search for dissertations about: "The Invisible Man"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words The Invisible Man.

2. 1. Multielement Urban Geochemistry : Exporing the Expected, the Unexpected and the Unknown

   Author : Pasi Peltola; Mats Åström; Högskolan i Kalmar; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Environmental chemistry; Miljökemi; Environmental Chemistry; Miljökemi; Environmental Chemistry; Miljökemi;

   Abstract : Urban areas are hot-spots for the human use of most elements. These elements are the building blocks of our various goods and chemicals and are used both purposely and in a more unaware fashion. There are many ways in which the elements get dispersed from the human use. Commonly acknowledged and evident processes of dispersion are point sources (e. READ MORE

4. 2. Sketching the Invisible : Patterns of Church and City in Theodoret of Cyrrhus' Philotheos Historia

   Author : Andreas Westergren; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Late Antiquity; biography; hagiography; panegyric; asceticism; monasticism; Syria; Antioch; Symeon the Stylite; pilgrimage; relics; cult of the saints; civic ideals; invention of tradition; the role of the bishop; ecclesiology; sacralization; christianization; philosophy; Neoplatonism; Libanius; Dionysius Areopagita;

   Abstract : The fundamental question in this work concerns the ideal relation between asceticism and society in a 5th c. writing (C.E.), the Philotheos Historia (PH), written in elaborate Greek by the learned bishop of Cyrrhus, Theodoret. READ MORE

5. 3. The Common Thread, Textile Production during the Late Iron Age and Viking Age

   Author : Eva Andersson; Arkeologi; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Haithabu; Birka; Scania; Viking Age; Late Iron Age; household production; textile valuables; sail cloth; bone needle; loom weight; textile production; spindle whorl; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

   Abstract : The initial aim of the present PhD thesis was to develop the method of classification for textile tools to facilitate the study of textile production in an archaeological context. The thesis consists of five separate projects and a concluding summary. The study covers the late Iron Age, mainly the Viking Period. READ MORE

6. 4. Animals and the Politics of Suffering : Essays on Law, Care and Interspecies Relations

   Author : Marie Leth-Espensen; Rättssociologiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; animal suffering; industrialised animal production; care; anthropocentrism; visibility; witnessing; ethical obligation; Critical Animal Studies; socio-legal research; Denmark;

   Abstract : This compilation thesis aims to develop an understanding of the ethical, legal and political implications associated with different strategies to address the suffering of animals caused by industrialised agriculture. Based on qualitative analysis conducted in Denmark, the research explores how ethical commitment to the situation of farmed animals is negotiated across different domains. READ MORE

7. 5. Mad Pursuits : Therapeutic Narration in Postwar American Fiction

   Author : Gwendolyn Haevens; David Associate Professor; Leerom Medovoi; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; early postwar American fiction; popular psychoanalysis; narrative therapy; narrative identity; narrative theory; representation of identity; script theory; therapeutic narration; fugitive selves; J.D. Salinger; Ralph Ellison; Sylvia Plath; English; Engelska;

   Abstract : Mad Pursuits: Therapeutic Narration in Postwar American Fiction examines three mid-century American novels—J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952), and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963)—in relation to the rise and popularization of psychoanalytic theory in America. READ MORE