Sökning: "Zoomorphism"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 uppsatser innehållade ordet Zoomorphism.

1. 1. From Hospitium to Hybridisation: The acquisition, adoption, and transformation of Roman zoomorphic forms in Barbaricum

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Arkeologi

   Författare :David Stuart Parker; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Zoomorphism; Romans; Roman imports; Romanisation; hybridisation; Barbaricum; hospitium; dona militaria; spoils of war; gift-giving; Roman provinces; Roman Iron Age; Iron Age societies.; History and Archaeology;

   Sammanfattning : This text is an attempt to re-evaluate the significance of Roman imports in Scandinavian contexts as well as to answer overarching questions concerning frontier zones, and the building of core-periphery relationships. This is achieved by applying the Roman concepts of hospitium and dona militaria as well as theoretical frameworks such as provincial ritual practices and cultural hybridisation to a predefined group of material culture. LÄS MER

3. 2. The Animal in the Mirror : Zoomorphism and Anthropomorphism in Life of Pi

   Master-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Författare :Miryam Bernadette Danielsson; [2020]
   Nyckelord :Life of Pi; anthropomorphism; zoomorphism; anthropophagy; cannibalism; ecocriticism; animal studies; human-animal dualism; Yann Martel; cartesian dualism; animal philosophy;

   Sammanfattning : This essay explores the application of zoomorphism and anthropomorphism in Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi. The novel, rather than being a mere shipwreck-narrative or a miraculous tale with religious overtones, is also a story about the complicated and perhaps inevitably divided relationship between humans and animals. LÄS MER

4. 3. Om djurens funktioner i Satantango

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

   Författare :Anton Larsson; [2019]
   Nyckelord :László Krasznahorkai; Satantango; Animal Studies; Cultural Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : László Krasznahorkai (b. 1954) is a Hungarian novelist known for his melancholic-dystopic themes and post-modern prose. He has received considerable critical acclaim, notably winning the Man Booker International Prize in 2015. He initially became famous, to a wider audience outside Hungary, through director Béla Tarrs adoption of his novels. LÄS MER

5. 4. Human or Horse? : Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Instances in The Horse Whisperer

   Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Författare :Emma Pigney; [2015]
   Nyckelord :anthropomorphism; horse whispering; Nicholas Evans; zoomorphism; parallels;

   Sammanfattning : This essay aims to show how anthropomorphism, and also to some extent zoomorphism, is created in Nicholas Evans’s novel The Horse Whisperer.  Through parallel events and the usage of the concepts horse whisperers and horse whispering, a special connection is created between Grace, the main human character, and Pilgrim, the main horse character. LÄS MER

7. 5. Hunter and the Hunted : A Bakhtinian Reading of Zoomorphic Instances in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

   Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Författare :Johan Nilsson; [2015]
   Nyckelord :Hunter S. Thompson; Bakhtin; Zoomorphism; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas;

   Sammanfattning : In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, the city of Las Vegasrepresents a country that is torn between the flippant capitalism and the dream ofprogress on the one hand, and the need to come closer to your own humanity on theother. LÄS MER