Sökning: "Mythologies"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 26 uppsatser innehållade ordet Mythologies.

1. 21. Drömmar, dialoger och dioramor: bilder av mänsklighet i The Day the Earth Stood Still

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Maja Karlsson; [2014]
   Nyckelord :science fiction; story-telling; filmanalys; kulturanalys; kön; film studies; cultural studies; gender; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis presents a reading of the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still from 2008, tracing stories and articulations of what it means to be human, via three themes: encounters with the unknown, conflicts between value codes and finally, the role of communication and otherness in the production of humanity. With tools from semiology and psychoanalysis, and inspiration from feminist cultural studies and the concept of story telling, the images of humanity is linked to mythologies of hope, science, whiteness and womanhood. LÄS MER

3. 22. "Kvinnan ska eftersträva skönhet enligt rådande ideal" : En analys av myter i VeckoRevyns frågespalter

   Kandidat-uppsats, Institutionen för kultur och lärande

   Författare :Andrea Brännström; [2013]
   Nyckelord :mythologies; the beauty myth; women’s magazines; VeckoRevyn; content analysis; linguistic analysis;

   Sammanfattning : This essay is an analysis of mythologies in the Swedish women´s magazine VeckoRevyn. The magazine’s own explicit purpose is to break down the unhealthy opinion of what beauty is in their industry today. By content and linguistic analysis the results of this study are interconnected to the beauty myth as it was established by Naomi Wolf in 1991. LÄS MER

4. 23. Yeats, Myth and Mythical Method : A Close Reading of the Representations of Celtic and Catholic Mythology in “The Wanderings of Oisin”

   Kandidat-uppsats, Institutionen för språkstudier

   Författare :Jenny Sperens; [2013]
   Nyckelord :Yeats; mythical method; close reading; Irish mythology; Oisin; Yeats; mytisk metod; närläsning; Irländsk mytologi; Oisin;

   Sammanfattning : “The Wanderings of Oisin” was published in 1889 and is one of W.B Yeats’ earliest poems and is the main focus for this essay. The poem depicts the duality of Irish identity and the transition from one system of belief to another. This essay will demonstrate that W. LÄS MER

5. 24. Myten om användaren - En studie av användardiskursen och dess visionärer

   Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för ABM, digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskap

   Författare :Mårten Björk; Jacob Ohlin; [2008]
   Nyckelord :Humanities; GÖK project; discourse analysis; Library 2.0; user orientation; Humaniora; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : The myth of the user - a study of the user discourse and its visionaries This study is a discourse analysis of the visions that implicitly are expressed in different texts about user-centered library theory. Several other studies have analyzed the discourse and conceptualization of how the user is expressed in the library debate. LÄS MER

7. 25. Påsköns stenstatyer, moai : Vilket genus representerar de?

   Kandidat-uppsats, Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten

   Författare :Ivan Dahlstrand; [2008]
   Nyckelord :Sculpture; Statue; Stonesculpture; Moai; Easter Island; Rapa Nui; Skulptur; Staty; Stenskulptur; Moai; Påskön; Rapa Nui;

   Sammanfattning : Abstract. The question in this analysis is which gender moai, the big statues on Rapa Nui, represent. My hypothesis is that they have developed from visual symbols to metaphores in mythologies from an polynesian context. LÄS MER