Search for dissertations about: "obscurity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the word obscurity.

  2. 1. Alma Natura, Ars Severa; Expanses and Limits of Craft in Henry David Thoreau

    Author : Henrik Otterberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Thoreau; nature; nature-writing; ecocriticism; poetics; aesthetics; modernity; technology; railroad; autobiography; immanence; transcendence; rhetoric; perspicuity; obscurity; parable; animals; myth; mythology; Walden; “hound; bay horse; and turtle-dove”; “A Winter Walk”; Journal; A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers;

    Abstract : .... READ MORE

  4. 2. For every word has its own shadow: Sunsets, Notes From Underground, Waves

    Author : Lisa Tan; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; affect; becoming; Maurice Blanchot; displacement; dispossession; essay film; experimental video; geological time; liminal; Clarice Lispector; materialism; primordial obscurity; provisional; solitude; Susan Sontag; threshold; transformation; translation; video; video installation; Virginia Woolf;

    Abstract : Liminality permeates this doctoral project's questions: how can an experience of the liminal exist as an artwork? What things and experiences can orient us towards affectivity and states of becoming? Lisa Tan relates such concerns to Clarice Lispector whose writing renders becoming(s) visible. Coupled with Maurice Blanchot and his literary discourse on dispossession and the outside (analogous to becoming), Tan's inquiry is critically engaged inside a moving image practice. READ MORE

  5. 3. Health-care processes - A Study of Medical Problem-solving in the Swedish Health-care Organisation

    Author : Leif Holmberg; Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Organizational science; resource control; medical technology; Problem-solving; health-care organization; Organisationsteori;

    Abstract : This study is about medical problem-solving within its organisational context, the Swedish health-care organisation. The main purpose is to demonstrate how different types of medical problem-solving are affected by the structure of the health-care organisation. READ MORE

  6. 4. Observations on Operating System Security Vulnerabilities

    Author : Stefan Lindskog; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; computer security; operating system; vulnerability; intrusion; experiment; modeling; analysis; Datavetenskap; Computer Science;

    Abstract : This thesis presents research on computer security vulnerabilities in general-purpose operating systems. The objective is to investigate intrusions in such systems in order to find and model the underlying generic weaknesses, i.e., weaknesses that would be applicable to many different systems. READ MORE

  7. 5. Silent Modernism : Soundscapes and the Unsayable in Richardson, Joyce, and Woolf

    Author : Annika Lindskog; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; silence; modernist fiction; realism; the unsayable; soundscapes; Dorothy Richardson; Virginia Woolf; James Joyce;

    Abstract : This thesis examines silence in modernist fiction, explaining how it forms a central aspect of realism in the modernist novel. It is based on close readings of the form and function of silence in the works of Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. READ MORE