Search for dissertations about: "modern vernacular"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words modern vernacular.

2. 1. The Delegitimised Vernacular : Language Politics, Poetics and the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

   Author : Per Sivefors; Thomas Healy; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English-sixteenth-century-literature; Renaissance; Early-modern; Elizabethan-drama; aesthetics; poetics; English-language; language-politics; nationalism; nationhood; legitimation; delegitimation; Marlowe-Christopher; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Engelsk litteratur;

   Abstract : The present study of Marlowe’s plays has as its point of departure the sixteenth-century uncertainty as to what constituted the category of literature. Particularly in England, so acutely aware of this problem were writers and educators that they sought to define and legitimise vernacular literature by integrating it within a rhetoric of language politics, according to which literature in English should serve and promote the English nation. READ MORE

4. 2. A Future for the Past of Desert Vernacular Architecture

   Author : Marwa Dabaieh; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; participatory action research; transdisciplinarity; thinking re-vernacular; architectural conservation; desert vernacular; Balat.; neo-desert vernacular;

   Abstract : Desert vernacular architecture has always been the product of a sustainable building cycle. People inherited the traditional way of building from their ancestors and the knowledge was transferred and developed from one generation to another. READ MORE

5. 3. Vernacular Buildings and Urban Social Practice - Wood and people in Early Modern Swedish Society

   Author : Andrine Nilsen; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; historical archaeology; early modern; city scape; urbanity; Swedish building practices; building stock; log timber construction; timber-framing technique; post and plank construction; storeyed buildings; mixed techniques; the production of space; social dimensions; centre; periphery; marginality;

   Abstract : Wooden houses were major components of the early modern Swedish townscape. Yet, today these buildings have largely disappeared due to fires, demolition and modernity. The main themes of the thesis are the study of what kind of wooden building techniques were used within the urban environment. READ MORE

6. 4. The object markers ba and jiang in modern literary Chinese

   Author : Wai-Ling Ragvald; Kinesiska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literary Chinese; South-East China; object marker; jiang; ba; instrumental; disposal construction; pattern; action verbs; style; euphony; four character phrase; Mandarin; tradition; Cantonese; Minnan dialect; Hakka; East and Central China; North China; Taiwan; Hong Kong;

   Abstract : Modern standard written Chinese has two common object markers, 把 ba and 将 jiang, both of which mark a direct object preceding the verb. Both markers appear to have been widely used in the spoken language of the Tang dynasty but the actual distribution is not entirely clear. READ MORE

7. 5. "Misticall Wordes and Names Infinite" : An Edition of Humfrey Lock's Treatise on Alchemy, with an Introduction, Explanatory Notes and Glossary

   Author : Peter Grund; Merja Kytö; Linda Ehrsam Voigts; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; alchemy; Humfrey Lock; early Modern English; Middle English; vernacularisation; early science; Simon Forman; MS Ashmole 1490; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket;

   Abstract : This dissertation contains an edition of Humfrey Lock’s (fl. 1560–1570) treatise on alchemy, and includes an introduction to the edition, explanatory notes and a glossary. The edition presents the text of Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 1490, which was copied out and annotated in 1590 by Dr Simon Forman (1552–1611). READ MORE