Sökning: "Allegory"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 42 uppsatser innehållade ordet Allegory.

1. 1. “Human Spiders”: Intellectual Observers, Degeneration and Darwinism in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

   Författare :Maja Loberg; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Degeneration; Fin de Siècle; Literature; Darwinism; H.G. Wells; The Time Machine; Intellectual Observer; Victorian literature; Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : H.G. Wells’ novella The Time Machine (1895) tells the story of The Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. There, he encounters two evolutionary progressions of humanity. LÄS MER

3. 2. Mose Ting

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

   Författare :Alfred Ingmår; [2023]
   Nyckelord :symbol; allegory; Conceptual Metaphor Theory; Gregory of Nyssa; The Life of Moses; religious language; sacramentality; Philosophy and Religion;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this essay is to apply the theories of metaphor from Conceptual Metaphor Theory on a work of allegorical interpretation of the Bible – more specifically, Gregory of Nyssa’s The Life of Moses – and discuss what theological questions and perspectives arises from that. My primary question is thus: how can Gregory of Nyssa’s way of interpreting, and giving meaning to, objects in The Life of Moses be understood through Conceptual Metaphor Theory? By analyzing nine physical objects, I show that Gregory throughout the work highlights aspects of sensory impressions, basic knowledge, and orientational factors, which governs how he accredits an object meaning symbolically. LÄS MER

4. 3. Längtande Kroppar: Höga Visan som Pedagogik för Begären

   Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

   Författare :Nivea Schnizler; [2022-06-22]
   Nyckelord :Song of Songs; desire; eros; sexuality; common life; Höga Visan; begär; längtan; sexualitet; gemensamt liv;

   Sammanfattning : This study explores how the Song of Songs could and should be interpreted in its own form, i.e., as erotic poetry, and on the basis of sexual desire. LÄS MER

5. 4. Ideology, Allegory, and Identity: : A Study of American Political Cartoons, 1770-1815

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

   Författare :Fanny Vårenius; [2022]
   Nyckelord :National identity; Political cartoons; Allegorical representations; War of 1812; United States; War of independence; Visual narratives; Pictorial cultures; Caricatures; National stereotypes;

   Sammanfattning : In 1776, war broke out in the Colonies of New England between British Subjects, colonists, and those emplyed by the crown to uphoald law and order across the Atlantic. The union that wuld emerge from the war would have to develop what the colnial powers they migrated from had been adding on for centuries: an understanding of national character. LÄS MER

7. 5. The Spectacle of the Alien/Migrant An exploration through Hollywood Science fiction and Horror Movies before and after 9/11

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Författare :Jonathan Cardenas; [2021]
   Nyckelord :science-fiction; horror; blockbuster; representation; alien; the other; myth; immigration; migrant; Hollywood; orientalism; Cultural Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis aims at addressing the question of the representation of the Other within current dominant visual media. The Other, in the context of this thesis, refers to any minority community group identified as different from a certain dominant norm; depending on the context it could correspond to groups such as Women, Afro-Americans or Arabs. LÄS MER