Search for dissertations about: "nostalgia"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 16 swedish dissertations containing the word nostalgia.
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6. The Curve of an Emotion: A Study of Change in the Portrayal of Children and Childhood in the Literature of James Joyce
Abstract : Literary theorists and social historians consider fictional texts to be important for the study of children and childhood. James Joyce’s fiction is considered important for understanding Irish childhoods, and Joyce’s portrayal of childhood is often deemed unchanging within the major themes until the distinction between adults and children breaks down in Finnegans Wake. READ MORE
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7. The last policeman : On the globalisation of local policing
Abstract : Global threats, such as cross-border crime and terrorism are on the rise! At least, this is a popular notion amongst politicians, policy makers and the police, who are therefore advocating a need for policing to become as peripatetic and pervasive as these criminal developments. This has led to a rise in transnational or international police collaborations, notably through institutions such as Interpol, Europol, Frontex, UNPOL and many bilateral partnerships. READ MORE
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8. Mutual implications: otherness in theory and John Berryman's poetry of loss
Abstract : This thesis examines John Berryman’s poetry of loss together with four different theoretical perspectives. It is the purpose of the study to involve Berryman’s poetry and critical theory in a dialogue which attempts to break down the hierarchy that positions theory as the subject and literature or poetry as the object of study. READ MORE
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9. 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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10. Out of Site : Landscape and Cultural Reflexivity in New Hollywood Cinema 1969-1974
Abstract : This dissertation examines landscape as a concept for analysis and interpretation in film studies by considering the New Hollywood cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Contextualized within the contested notion of nationhood at the time as well as the concern among filmmakers to probe the properties, practices and traditions of American cinema, this was also a period when landscape underwent widespread redefinition as a field of artistic and academic practice. READ MORE
