Search for dissertations about: "the double aspect"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 35 swedish dissertations containing the words the double aspect.

  2. 1. The Double Aspect : Gerald Murnane's Visual Poetics

    Author : Piia K Posti; Ishrat Lindblad; Martin Leer; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Australian twentieth-century fiction; the double aspect; Cartesian perspectivalism ; vision; visuality; visual poetics; exile; landscape; woman; gaze; Gerald Murnane; English literature; Engelsk litteratur; Comparative literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

    Abstract : With its abundance of maps, place names, and landscapes, and with titles like Inland and Landscape with Landscape, Gerald Murnane's fiction exemplifies the dominance of land in Australian literature. Yet, Murnane's fiction differs from most "landscape fiction" in that it depicts an Australia that despite its history of exploration has not yet been fully discovered. READ MORE

  4. 2. 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

  5. 3. Making a difference : Exploring the teaching and learning of the English progressive aspect among Swedish 6th grade students

    Author : Clare Lindström; Ulla Runesson; Yuefeng Ellen Zhang; Jönköping University; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to generate knowledge about what 6th grade students (12-13 years old) need to discern in order to be able to use the English progressive aspect (PROG) in a syntactically and semantically accurate way. This object of learning is not only complex, but it is unmarked grammatically in Swedish, which poses considerable difficulties for English language learners. READ MORE

  6. 4. Agriculture for Development in the 21st Century : Evidence from Ethiopia

    Author : Emelie Rohne Till; Ekonomisk utveckling i det globala Syd; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Agriculture; economic development; social capability; sub-Saharan Africa; Ethiopia; Agriculture; economic development; social capability; sub-Saharan Africa; Ethiopia;

    Abstract : The 21st century has seen a rise of optimism about the prospects for African economic development, and Ethiopia, with its rapideconomic growth in the last two decades, is at the forefront of this current wave of optimism. The rapid growth has been achievedunder a policy focus on the agricultural sector – another aspect of development that has seen a renewed wave of optimism in the21st century. READ MORE

  7. 5. "Who Should Know but the Woman": Sexuality, Marriage and Motherhood in the Utopian Novels of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Author : Chloé Avril; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; utopia; feminism; sexuality; marriage; motherhood;

    Abstract : The revival of critical interest in the writings of the early twentieth-century American feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman is linked to the emergence of a second wave of struggle for women's liberation in the 1960s and 70s. Before this, Gilman's work, in particular her short stories and novels, remained neglected or forgotten in the literary histories of modern American literature. READ MORE