Search for dissertations about: "canon"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 29 swedish dissertations containing the word canon.

2. 16. The Absent Entrepreneur : Exploring the Role of the Entrepreneur in Economics

   Author : Arvid Malm; Pontus Braunerhjelm; Bo Carlsson; KTH; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; entrepreneurship; education; income distribution; philanthropy; economics; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : Economics as an academic discipline has often found it difficult to formally model the Entrepreneur. As Baumol (1968) noted, “The theoretical firm is entrepreneurless—the prince of Denmark has been expunged from the discussion of Hamlet. READ MORE

4. 17. Church and nation : The discourse on authority in Ericus Olai's Chronica regni Gothorum (c. 1471)

   Author : Biörn Tjällén; Olle Ferm; Bo Persson; Brian Patrick McGuire; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Authority; Church; Historiography; Late Middle Ages; Latin; Nationalism; Political discourse; State; State formation; Sweden; History; Historia; historia; History;

   Abstract : The Chronica regni Gothorum is the first Latin national history of Sweden. Completed after 1471 by a canon of Uppsala, Ericus Olai, it testifies to the articulation at the Swedish arch see of the dominant political issues of the day: the status of the Swedish realm in the union with Denmark-Norway, and the relations between the king, aristocracy and ecclesiastical leadership. READ MORE

5. 18. The Androgyne and the Phoenix : Marguerite de Navarre and Gaspara Stampa: Gendering Early Modern Debates on Love

   Author : Johanna Vernqvist; Carin Franzén; Unn Falkeid; Gary Ferguson; Nancy Frelick; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Marguerite de Navarre; Gaspara Stampa; Early modern Literature; Love; Women writers; Neoplatonism; Androgyne; Phoenix; Love; Gender; Dialogues; Margareta av Navarra; Gaspara Stampa; tidigmodern litteratur; kärlek; kvinnliga författarskap; nyplatonism; androgynen; fenix; genus; dialog;

   Abstract : This study explores Marguerite de Navarre’s and Gaspara Stampa’s literary strategies through a close examination of their appropriation of Neoplatonic ideals of love and gender. Against a backdrop of the cultural and literary canon of the sixteenth century, and through a theoretical framework building on Judith Butler and Michel Foucault, it demonstrates how Marguerite de Navarre and Gaspara Stampa destabilize power relations within the discourses of love and gender, thus gendering early modern debates on love. READ MORE

6. 19. Every Man His Own Monument : Self-Monumentalizing in Romantic Britain

   Author : Chris Haffenden; Frans Lundgren; Peter Josephson; Samantha Matthews; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Self-monumentalizing; self-made immortality; history of celebrity; cultural memory; historical consciousness; Jeremy Bentham; Auto-Icon; John Soane; Soane Museum; Benjamin Robert Haydon; autobiography; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

   Abstract : From framing private homes as museums, to sitting for life masks and appointing biographers, new forms of self-monumentalizing emerged in the early nineteenth century. In this study I investigate the emergence and configuration of such practices in Romantic Britain. READ MORE

7. 20. The True Story of Alice B. Toklas : Almost the Same but not Quite/not Straight in the Toklas Autobiographies

   Author : Anna Linzie; Rolf Lundén; Ann Fisher-Wirth; Robyn Wiegman; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; autobiography; sexuality; textuality; repetition; supplementarity; mimicry; authorship; writing; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; Comparative Literature;

   Abstract : This study investigates three texts that can be provisionally defined as “Toklas autobiographies,” or inscriptions of “the true story of Alice B. Toklas.” These are Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) and The Alice B. READ MORE