Search for dissertations about: "figurative"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 21 swedish dissertations containing the word figurative.

  2. 11. Greeting the visitor : A contextualising study of fauces-mosaics in Pompeii

    Author : Fanny Kärfve; Pompeji - en uppdatering-lup-obsolete-HT_760; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pompeii; mosaics; fauces; entrances; atrium-houses; Interior decoration; display; emulation; protection; liminal spaces; mortar-floors;

    Abstract : The focus for this study is the collection of mosaic-floors that adorn the entrances, fauces, to atrium-houses around Pompeii. The aim is to further our understanding of the Roman view of transitional spaces, in this case the private house-entrance between the inside and the outside world. READ MORE

  4. 12. Pastor in the Shadow of Violence : Gustavo Gutiérrez as a Public Pastoral Theologian in Peru in the 1980s and 1990s

    Author : Olle Kristenson; Kajsa Ahlstrand; Jorge Castillo Guerra; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bartolomé de Las Casas; CELAM; discourse analysis; Christian hope; God of life; Gustavo Gutiérrez; hermeneutic of hope; human rights; institutionalised violence; La República; liberation theology; pastoral theology; political theology; political violence; preferential option for the poor; reconciliation; resurrection; theology of life; Roman Catholicism in Peru; Sendero Luminoso; social movements; Truth and Reconciliation Commission.; Missionsvetenskap; Studies of Missions;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a study of the role of Gustavo Gutiérrez as a public pastor in the 1980s and 1990s in Peru. His collaboration with the Lima newspaper La República from the early 1980s gave him a figurative pulpit from which he addressed the Peruvian public on specific occasions. READ MORE

  5. 13. Crying Rya: A Practitioner’s Narrative Through Hand Weaving

    Author : Emelie Röndahl; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; rya; hand weaving; crafts; time; two-sidedness; reflective practice; bodily knowledge; craft research; artistic research;

    Abstract : This research project examines a repeated focus on time and slowness that I have experienced over years in connection with my hand-weaving practice using the Scandinavian technique of rya. Research through my own studio practice has led me to question a public image of weaving as time-consuming or slow and why temporality is attributed to the finished object, while I claim that it is only experienced in the making process. READ MORE

  6. 14. The construction of poetic meaning : A cultural-developmental study of symbolic and non-symbolic strategies in the interpretation of contemporary poetry

    Author : Cai Svensson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Response to literature; Poetry interpretation; lnterpretive strategies; Literary symbols; Aesthetic development; Meta-aesthetic reasoning; Literary awareness; Metacognition; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Abstract : The general aim of this research has been to study children's and adolescents' construction of poetic meaning. The theoretical frame of reference reflects the social-constructivist and phenomenologically influenced orientations of A. Schutz and P. L. READ MORE

  7. 15. The Plane of Uncreatedness : A Phenomenological Study of Anita Brookner's Late Fiction

    Author : Inger Björkblom; Harald Schweizer; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; engelska;

    Abstract : The investigation maintains that the late fiction of Anita Brookner exhibits an autonomous region of auto-affective experience. This region shapes the materialization of subjectivity in the artifact. READ MORE