Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion: Recent submissions
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När livet tar rätt form: om människosyn i svenska hälsotidskrifter 1910-13 och 2009
(2012-12-17)Abstract When life gets the right shape: On anthropology in Swedish health magazines 1910-13 and 2009 This thesis describes and analyses anthropologies and understandings of health in Swedish health magazines 1910 ... -
Proba the Prophet. Studies in the Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba
(2012-11-06)The present study aims to deepen the critical understanding of the fourth century poet Faltonia Betita Proba’s Cento and its reception, a text of considerable historical and cultural importance. Not only is it one of few ... -
Hendiadys in the Hebrew Bible. An Investigation of the Applications of the Term
(2012-05-10)It is evident that the term hendiadys, which is derived from the classical rhetorical tradition, has for hundreds of years been frequently applied to constructions and combinations of components in the Hebrew Bible. This ... -
Hjärtats härdar: Folkliv, folkmuseer och minnesmärken i Skandinavien, 1808–1907
(2012-05-10)This thesis deals with the new view of landscapes, buildings and artefacts as significant, memory-bearing structures that emerged in the nineteenth century. It examines the new memory-bearing visibility, i.e., the human-shaped ... -
On the Good Faith
(2012-04-25)Zoroastrianism, a religion originating in the ancient East and having survived to the present day, is currently being practiced on a very small scale throughout the whole world. Since the early 1990s there has been a ... -
Vikten av kropp: Frågan om kött och människa i Maurice Merleau-Pontys Le Visible et l’invisible
(2011-11-25)Abstract Helena Dahlberg: The Weight of the Body. The Question of Flesh and Human Being in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Le visible et l’invisible. [Vikten av kropp. Frågan om kött och människa I Maurice Merleau-Pontys Le visible ... -
Discourses of Empire: The Gospel of Mark from a Postcolonial Perspective
(2011-11-15)Generally regarded as the first written gospel, Mark probably began circulating in this form during the 70s C.E, the hey-days of Flavian Rome. Reading Mark as a representation of a collective identity position, this ... -
X. Tre etyder över ett tema av Iannis Xenakis (1922 – 2001).
(2011-09-23)Ten years after his death, Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001) is generally acknowledged as one of the most influential composers of the recently past century, working in all genres of modern music – from acoustic to electronic, ... -
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 ... -
Fria flickor före Pippi: Ester Blenda Nordström och Karin Michaëlis – Astrid Lindgrens föregångare.
(2011-05-09)Abstract University of Gothenburg Eva Wahlström Free Girls Before Pippi. Ester Blenda Nordström and Karin Michaëlis: Astrid Lindgren’s predecessors Ph.D. dissertation in Swedish with a summary in English, p. 304. Department ... -
Samtalets möjligheter. Om litteratursamtal och litteraturreception i skolan.
(2011-02-17)The objective of this dissertation is literature discussion as a learning activity in school. The aim is to examine the conditions under which literature discussions may help students to develop their reception of a commonly ... -
Detta är min kropp: Kristen tro, sexualitet och samlevnad
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Klädd i sitt språk. Kritikern Olof Lagercrantz
(2010-10-22)This dissertation concerns the Swedish writer and critic Olof Lagercrantz, who served as both editor-in-chief and as cultural editor of one of Sweden’s major daily newspapers, Dagens Nyheter, between 1951 and 1975. It ... -
Jesusbilden i samtiden: Ungdomars receptioner av nio samtida Kristusbilder
(2010-09-30)This dissertation focuses on the reactions of sixteen young men and women to nine two-dimensional images of Christ in a multi-religious context. For purposes of analysis, these reactions are then placed in critical dialogue ... -
Prayer in Peasant Communities: Ideals and Practices of Prayer in the Late Medieval Ecclesiastical Province of Uppsala, Sweden
(2010-06-24)The aim of this study has been to identify, explain and delineate praying among peasant communities in the ecclesiastical province of Uppsala, Sweden. Four aspects have been examined through the perspectives of ideals and ... -
Reading the Dream Text: A Nexus between Dreams and Texts in the Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity
(2010-05-26)This study deals with conceptions and practices related to dreams in early rabbinic Judaism. One aspect of the Jewish dream culture in particular is considered, viz. the tendency evinced in the rabbinic literature of Late ... -
Konsten att sätta texter i verket. Gertrude Stein, Arne Sand och litteraturens (o)befintliga specificitet
(2010-05-21)The dissertation has a tripartite subject: Gertrude Stein’s novel A Novel of Thank You (1926), Arne Sand’s Väderkvarnarna (1962), and the specificity of literature before an expanded field of general art production. By ... -
Jeremiah: A Translation and Commentary on Jeremiah in Codex Vaticamus
(2010-05-17)This study investigates the Greek text of Jeremiah as found in the famous Vatican manuscript Codex Vaticanus 1209. It is the first major commentary to focus on the text of LXX Jeremiah in any modern language. Rather than ... -
Tro mig på min ort - oöversättligheten som tematiskt komplex i Bengt Emil Johnsons poesi 1973 – 1982
(2010-05-11)This doctoral thesis departs from the idea that the poetry of Bengt Emil Johnson (b. 1936) could very well be described as part of a long lyrical tradition, rather than as a reaction against this very tradition, which is ... -
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 ...