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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 uppsatser innehållade orden The Drowned World.
1. "Are their gods all deaf?" : EN LITTERATURANALYS AV GUDOMLIG AGENS I GEORGE R.R.MARTINS ”A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE”.
Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Jönköping University/HLK, ÄmnesforskningSammanfattning : Creators of popular culture, especially in the Fantasy- and Science Fiction-genres, has oftenused religious inspiration in the form of symbolism of the divine to form their own religioussystems and beliefs. The gods in these works ranges from actual physical beings to lofty ideasof transcendent powers in the sky. LÄS MER
2. “In Every Wood in Every Spring There is a Different Green” : An Independent Project in Literature on The Ecocritical Dialogue and Carnivalesque Aspects of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legendarium
Kandidat-uppsats, Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskapSammanfattning : Tolkien’s Middle Earth is characterised by the conflict between the forces of good, often represented as guardians of nature juxtaposed to the forces of evil, marked by a voracious edacity for a nature destroying industry. In fact, the second volume of the LotR deals with Saruman’s war against nature. LÄS MER
3. Streamlining the Ordering Process: A Case Study of Alfa Laval
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Teknisk logistikSammanfattning : Background One of Alfa Laval’s factories in Lund, LA, has noticed that up to 50% of all order proposals suggested by their ERP system JEEVES is considered to be irrelevant and are subsequently disregarded by the purchasers. Consequently, many purchasers disregard the parameters in JEEVES that control what proposals get suggested and instead order on “gut-feeling” and personal experience. LÄS MER
4. Sublime Extinctions in Anthropocene Fiction: Literary representations of geologic force in works by Ballard, McCarthy and Watkins
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/EngelskaSammanfattning : This essay examines representations of extinction in a selection of Anthropocene fiction. The Anthropocene is a potential new geological epoch, in which the human species capacity for massive ecological transformation is rivalling that of geologic processes. LÄS MER
5. Teaching Climate change : Reading the Symbiosis Between Mankind and Nature in Ballard’s The Drowned World
Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : The purpose of this essay is to examine J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World to investigate how the relationship between humans and nature affects humanity, and whether humanity is indestructible. LÄS MER