Search for dissertations about: "simile"

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

  2. 1. Grapes in the Desert : Metaphors, Models, and Themes in Hosea 4-14

    Author : Göran Eidevall; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Hebrew Bible; Bibelvetenskap; Bible; reversal; personification; imagery; simile; theme; model; metaphor theory; metaphor; prophetical literature; Hosea; Old Testament; Old Testament exegesis; Gamla testamentets exegetik;

    Abstract : This study explores the textual world of Hosea 4-14. To this end it uses a melhod informed by modern metaphor theory. At the outset, the hypothesis that chapters 4-14 in the book of Hosea constitute a coherent literary composition is submitted. The perspectival theory advanced by Eva F. READ MORE

  4. 2. Metaphors Cicero lived by : The Role of Metaphor and Simile in De senectute

    Author : Aron Sjöblad; Latin; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Latin; Lakoff; Cicero; Johnson; ‘On Old Age’; Metaphor; De senectute; Kövecses;

    Abstract : Abstract This dissertation examines the function of metaphor and simile in Cicero’s dialogue De senectute. For this purpose, it employs Lakoff-Johnsonian metaphor theory and compares the metaphorical concepts that the scholars of that tradition have found in English with the metaphors found in Cicero’s text. READ MORE

  5. 3. Ideology and Symbolism in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy

    Author : Fredrik Svensson; Magnus Ullén; Maria Holmgren Troy; Nicholas Monk; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cormac McCarthy; Pierre Macherey; Marxism; ideology; affordances; symbolism; ecocriticism; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : This study homes in on the ideological significance of American author Cormac McCarthy’s literary symbolism. Focusing in particular on the author’s tendency to merge hu­manity and the environment by way of metaphor, simile, and personifica­tion, the study demonstrates how the ethical and political import of this aesthetic is open to dispute. READ MORE

  6. 4. Stressing Knowledge : Organisational closed-ness and knowledge acquisition under pressure

    Author : Mats Koraeus; J.A. Verbeek; Fredrik Bynander; K. Lauche; P. 't Hart; E.K. Stern; M.H. Leyenaar; M.G. Valenta; S.L. Resodihardjo; Charles F. Parker; Försvarshögskolan; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; crisis management; knowledge management; organisational learning; organisational behaviour; expertise; advisory; Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan; Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan;

    Abstract : Organisations have been analytically conceptualised as being somewhat analogous to individuals for a long time. They have culture; they can learn; and they can behave in various odd ways. READ MORE

  7. 5. Rehearsing Emotions : The Process of Creating a Role for the Stage

    Author : Stina Bergman Blix; Göran Ahrne; Patrik Aspers; Helena Flam; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; role theory; stage actors; theatre; emotion work; emotional labour; shame; deep acting; surface acting; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : This thesis takes as its starting point the dramaturgical metaphor of the world as a stage, which is used in sociological role theories. These theories often presume what stage acting is about in order to use it as a simile for every day acting. READ MORE