Search for dissertations about: "wholeness"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the word wholeness.

  2. 1. Physics from Wholeness : Dynamical Totality as a Conceptual Foundation for Physical Theories

    Author : Barbara Piechocinska; Claes-Göran Granqvist; Erik Sjöqvist; Laszlo Kish; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Physics; wholeness; elementary embedding; left-distributivity; braids; special braids; entropy; Temperley-Lieb algebra; von Neumann algebra; Potts model; Fysik; Physics; Fysik; fasta tillståndets fysik; Solid State Physics;

    Abstract : Motivated by reductionism's current inability to encompass the quantum theory we explore an indivisible and dynamical wholeness as an underlying foundation for physics. After reviewing the role of wholeness in the quantum theory we set a philosophical background aiming at introducing an ontology, based on a dynamical wholeness. READ MORE

  4. 2. Striving for purity : interviews with people with malodorous exuding ulcers and their nurses

    Author : Elisabeth Lindahl; Ingegerd Bergbom; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : ulcers; malodour; purity; consolation; phenomenological hermeneutics; qualitative content analysis; omvårdnadsforskning med medicinsk inriktning; Caring Sciences;

    Abstract : The overall purpose of this thesis is two-fold; to illuminate the meaning of living with ‘impurity’ in terms of malodorous exuding ulcers, and the meaning of caring for people with ‘impure’ bodies in institutions and in people’s homes. The thesis comprises four papers based on studies using qualitative methods. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Fallen World in Coleridge’s Poetry

    Author : Agneta Lindgren; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; biblical associations; biblical imagery in poetry; Romantic literary theory; the Fallen World; religion in seventeenth-century poetry; Paradise Lost; Milton; Christianity and literature; Coleridge; religion in Romantic poetry; typology in literature; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Abstract : This study examines the motif of the Fallen World in Coleridge’s major poems The Ancient Mariner, Christabel and Kubla Khan . The use of Milton’s Paradise Lost as an intertextual foil throughout allows themes and metaphors inherent in the Fallen World motif to emerge in Coleridge’s poetry. READ MORE

  6. 4. Creating creation : readings of Pasternak's Doktor Živago

    Author : Susanna Witt; Boris Gasparov; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : Pasternak; Boris Leonidovič; Doktor Zhivago;

    Abstract : This study investigates the process of creation in Boris Pasternak's Doktor Îivago (1957), both as depicted in and as realized by the novel. Statements on art, on literature in general and on specific texts are found to have a bearing on the novel itself, thus providing clues to its own poetics and philosophy of art.Ch. READ MORE

  7. 5. Storytelling in Jazz Improvisation : Implications of a Rich Intermedial Metaphor

    Author : Sven Bjerstedt; Teaterhögskolan i Malmö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; jazz improvisation; storytelling; narrativity in music; intermedial metaphor; improvisation;

    Abstract : The phenomenon of intermedial conceptual loans is central to our understanding of the time-based arts. This thesis focuses on the usage of the term storytelling with regard to jazz improvisation. The aim of the investigation is to clarify how this concept is used by Swedish jazz practitioners. READ MORE