Sökning: "Mimetic Uncertainty"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 uppsatser innehållade orden Mimetic Uncertainty.

  1. 1. An Imperfect World, Imperfectly Retold : Mimetic Uncertainty in Early, Late, and Meta-Modern Fiction

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Jonathan Brott; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Mimetic Uncertainty; Uncertain Narration; Unreliable Narration; Realism; Modernism; Metamodernism; Reflexivity; Virginia Woolf; Tao Lin; Daniel Defoe.;

    Sammanfattning : Proposing the concept of mimetic uncertainty, this project aims to provide a critical inquiry into the correspondence of unreliable narration and realism. Building on Springett (2013) and Olsen (2003), a distinction between narratorial unreliability and uncertainty is proposed to denote whether a narrator explicitly signals an awareness of their fallible narration. LÄS MER

  3. 2. La cuentística individual y postmodernista de Francisco Tario en el marco de lo fantástico

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Spanska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Författare :Alfredo Berny Berard; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Francisco Tario; Fantastic literature; postmodernism; mimetic semantics; Mexican literature; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : The short stories from Francisco Tario, a relatively unknown Mexican author, show signs of a postmodern and individual aesthetic. In order to reach this conclusion, it has been necessary to analyze the phenomenon of the fantastic in its history, its relation to myth and fantasy, and in its particular reception throughout Latin America and Mexico. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Knowledge rhetoric in the “Big Four” consulting firms – the quest for legitimacy, and the peculiar case of similarity

    Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Joachim Lindberg; [2015]
    Nyckelord :Knowledge rhetoric; normative; mimetic; isomorphism; legitimacy; KIF; Big Four; Deloitte; PwC; EY; KPMG; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to conceptualize the practice of knowledge rhetoric in knowledge-intensive firms (KIFs). The methodology applied to this qualitative study is based on the principles of a social constructivist paradigm. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Nya vägar i en föränderlig tid En fallstudie av ett folkbiblioteks bemötande av idén om utkontraktering av urvals- och inköpsfunktionen

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

    Författare :Martin Axelsson; Andreas Stephens; [2007]
    Nyckelord :folkbibliotek; värdegrund; New Public Management; outsourcing; utkontraktering; inköp; urval; nyinstitutionell; Documentation; information; library science; archivistics; Arkiv- och bibliotekskunskap; dokumentation; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Abstract: In this Master's thesis our aim is to study the situation and process regarding the decision to use outsourcing of the media acquisition function in a Swedish public library. By using New institutional theory, focusing on ways of organising and values in the organisation we are able to analyse this phenomenon. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Stock Repurchases - A Fashion in the Corporate Wardrobe? : A Quantitative Study of Institutional Isomorphism within the Swedish Industrial Sector

    Magister-uppsats, Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet

    Författare :Jan-Johan Larsson; Leander Schorr; [2007]
    Nyckelord :Stock repurchases; Payout policy; Institutional theory; Mimetic; normative and coercive isomorphism; Swedish industrial sector;

    Sammanfattning : In May 2000 share repurchases were legalized in Sweden, with the purpose to provide companies with an efficient and flexible way to distribute capital. To buy back shares gives companies several benefits which are discussed in our study. LÄS MER