Search for dissertations about: "symbolism"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 39 swedish dissertations containing the word symbolism.

2. 16. The birds in the Iliad. Identities, interactions and functions

   Author : Karin Johansson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ancient ornithology; birds; bird symbolism; divination; double motivation; divine intervention; Homer s Iliad; identity; messenger; metaphorical utterances; oral tradition; parallelism; semiotics; species interactions; transformation; transmitter; Trojan war;

   Abstract : As the topic of this study embraces and entwines what is routinely divided into two separate categories, “nature” and “culture”, the birds in the Iliad challenge modern scientific division and in some ways, our thinking. They are simultaneously birds, signs and symbols. READ MORE

4. 17. The Burning Word : History and Myth in Maximilian Voloshin's Neopalimaia Kupina 

   Author : Emma-Lina Löflund; Anna Ljunggren; Julie Hansen; Olga Peters Hasty; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Maximilian Voloshin; Russian Symbolism; poetry; Russian Revolution; neomythological texts; performativity; anthroposophy; Rudolf Steiner; theurgy; life-creation; myth-creation; semiotics; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

   Abstract : The book Neopalimaia Kupina: stikhi o voine i revoliutsii (The Burning Bush: Poems about War and Revolution) by Maximilian Voloshin (1877–1932) depicts the revolutionary period in Russia. This dissertation analyzes the work’s composition, showing how it was shaped and reshaped in response to the dramatic events of the first two and a half decades of the twentieth century, and how it remains open and mirrors the ongoing development of history. READ MORE

5. 18. The genesis of modernism : Seurat, Gauguin, van Gogh and French symbolism in the 1880's

   Author : Sven Lövgren; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art; Konstvetenskap;

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6. 19. Origins of Kingship Traditions and Symbolism in the Great Lakes Region of Africa

   Author : Birgitta Farelius; Tord Fornberg; Arvi Hurskainen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; interlacustrine; “the religious vision of the world”; the Creator; the first owners of the soil; the white cow; the hammer of smith ; Bigo bya Mugenyi; social stratification; the Bacwezi; the Babiito ideology of statecraft; the Bunyoro centre of creation; History of religion; Religionshistoria;

   Abstract : Considering myth as the bearer of important symbolism with potentials to reveal history, this dissertation undertakes a historical interpretation of kingship traditions and/or myths in the Great Lakes region. While the historical sources describe the cultures of the peoples of the interlacustrine region, this study goes a step further to develop analytic categories using symbolism to interpret and explain the socio-political developments, which previously have been mystified and hence crystallised in theories as the well-known Hamitic theory. READ MORE

7. 20. A city on a hill cannot be hidden: Function and symbolism of Ancient Greek akropoleis

   Author : Robin Rönnlund; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Antik historia; Klassisk arkeologi; akropolis; acropolis; citadel; hillfort; fortifications; polis; city state; Ancient Greece; archaeology; monumentality; Thessaly; Boeotia;

   Abstract : En akropolis (plur. akropoleis), en befäst kulle högt över en antik grekisk stad, utgör en av de mest välkända vyerna från antiken, men ingen har än studerat akropoleis systematiskt. READ MORE