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A Sufi for a Secular Age: Reflecting on Muslim Modernity through the Life and Times of Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri
(2020-11-03)Fadhlalla Haeri (b. 1937) is a contemporary Muslim figure best known for his spiritual commentaries on the Qur’an and his influential role as a ‘post-madhhab’ and ‘post-tariqa’ Sufi teacher. Born and brought up in the ... -
Alma Natura, Ars Severa; Expanses and Limits of Craft in Henry David Thoreau
(2014-10-30)The American naturalist, philosopher and writer Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) lived and wrote in a time of vibrant change. During his short life his rural Concord, a small satellite town to Boston, Massachusetts, was ... -
American Dervish: Making Mevlevism in the United States of America
(2013-05-17)In the late 1970s, the Turkish Mevlevi Sufi sheikh Süleyman Dede arrived from Konya, Turkey, in the United States. There he initiated a number of individuals primarily belonging to American esoteric groups as sheikhs in ... -
Assembling the Historic Environment: Heritage in the Digital Making
(2022-03-02)The historic environment is a formulation of the cultural past as experienced and documented in space. Traditional approaches to the historic environment tend to favour conservational and preservational paradigms, such as ... -
Att inventera ett folk. Populariseringar av vetenskaplig släktforskning i Sverige i början av 1900-talet
(2022)This licentiate-thesis aims to describe and analyse the popularisation of what was called “scientific genealogy” in Sweden during the early 20th century. The study is constructed around two case-studies where I describe ... -
Att lära sig se. En didaktisk figur hos Sven Delblanc
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Att skriva gränserfarenheter. En studie i Åsa Nelvins och Eva Runefelts författarskap
(2021-08-19)Abstract The late 1970’s through the early 1980’s was an exciting and eventful period in Swedish literary history. Not only did the controversial and highly debated political women’s lit- erature emerge during this time, ... -
Att sluta från början. Tidigmodern läsning och folkbokens receptionsestetik
(2011-05-09)The thesis poses the question, why were Volksbücher read and loved by some people in the early modern period and at the same time criticized by others. By doing so three important goals are aimed at : 1 ) to arrive at a ... -
"Äger du en skruvmejsel?” Litteraturstudiets roll i läromedel för gymnasiets yrkesinriktade program under Lpf 94 och Gy 2011
(2016-09-01)Ph.D. Dissertation at University of Gothenburg Title: “Are you the owner of a screwdriver?” Literature Study in Textbooks Produced for Swedish Vocational Training Programs under two Curricula Author: Katrin Lilja ... -
Åke Hodell. Art and Writing in the Neo-Avant-Garde
(2017-11-15)Åke Hodell and the Art of Illegibility provides the first in-depth discussion in English of the concrete poet and neo-avant-garde artist Åke Hodell’s works from the 1960s. Throughout the study, Hodell’s artistic practice ... -
Beastly Lessons: Natural Utopias in Seventeenth-Century England
(2022-04-06)The present study investigates the motif of virtuous animal instructors in three selected English texts from the second half of the seventeenth century: James Howell’s The Parly of Beasts (1660), Margaret Cavendish’s The ... -
Berätta, förklara och uppenbara. Om textens intentionalitet i Sven Delblancs Prästkappan
(University of Gothenburg, 1981)Receptionsestetisk studie av Sven Delblancs roman Prästkappan (1963). Undersöker hur en i texten inskjuten berättelse speglar den omslutande textens och därmed förebildar en läsarposition. -
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. The Context and Significance of a Modern Hindu Personalist
(2010-01-04)This study explores the life and work of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874-1937), a Vaishnava guru of the school of Chaitanya (1486-1534), who, at a time that Hindu non-dualism was most prominent, managed to establish a ... -
Brukslitteratur, skönlitteratur och medkänslans estetik – betraktelse över läsarter
(Stockholm/ Stehag: Brutus Östlings Bokförlag Symposion, 2007)Receptionsteoretisk och responsestetisk ansats. Diskussion av den skönlitterära textens möjligheter att via olika retoriska grepp styra läsandet. Åskådningsexempel: Margareta Ekströms novell "Långt lidet" (i samlingen ... -
Challenge the past / diversify the future - proceedings
(Critical Heritage Studies, University of Gothenburg, 2015-03-05)Challenge the Past / Diversify the Future is a multidisciplinary conference for scholars and practitioners who study the implementation and potential of visual and multi-sensory representations to challenge and diversify ... -
Crucifixion in Antiquity: An Inquiry into the Background of the New Testament Terminology of Crucifixion
(2010-05-07)This study investigates the philological aspects of how ancient Greek, Latin and Hebrew/Aramaic texts, including the New Testament, depict the practice of punishment by crucifixion. A survey of the ancient text material ... -
Culture and Health : A Wider Horizon
(Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburg, 2015)What is Culture and Health? Culture and Health: A Wider Horizon introduces this highly topical field of enquiry from a broad, multidisciplinary perspective. The book addresses fundamental issues including:What do the terms ... -
En dag i Dublin. Om James Joyces Ulysses
(Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion, Göteborgs universitet, 2015-05-25)James Joyces Ulysses (1922) är en modern klassiker som kommit att prägla 1900-talets litterära medvetande. Den dag som handlingen utspelas, den 16 juni 1904, har till och med fått en egen benämning, ”Bloomsday”, efter ... -
"Den döde gör succé". Dödsrunan och Dan Andersson
(Stockholm : Brutus Östlings bokförlag Symposion, 2008)Undersöker dödsrunan som genre med dödsrunor över Dan Andersson som åskådningsexempel. -
Detta är min kropp: Kristen tro, sexualitet och samlevnad
(2011-01-05)