Sökning: "Myth theory"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 123 uppsatser innehållade orden Myth theory.

1. 1. Goddess, Lover, Mother, Witch : Feminist Revisionist Mythmaking and Feminine Morphology of Narrative in Madeline Miller’s Circe

   Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Författare :Wiktoria Grzybowska; [2023]
   Nyckelord :feminism; feminist literary theory; greek mythology; feminist mythmaking; revisionism; Circe; Madeline Miller; The Odyssey;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to position Circe by Madeline Miller as an example of feminist revisionist mythmaking and investigate some of the novel’s revisionary practices. I thus begin by introducing the project of feminist revisionism, as conceptualized by several different feminist thinkers. LÄS MER

3. 2. Polish Collective Memory, The Jedwabne Pogrom inPolish Newspapers 2016-2018

   Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Författare :Radoslaw Repelewicz; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Polish Antisemitism; Jan Tomasz Gross; Cultural Trauma; Collective Memory; National Mythology;

   Sammanfattning : This study examines the Cultural Trauma associated with the Jedwabne pogrom, as portrayed in three Polish newspapers. The essay seeks to answer the following questions: How did the chosen three Polish newspapers with varying ideological and political views depict the discussion about the Jedwabne pogrom in their articles in the years 2016-2018? In what ways do these usages and representations reflect or challenge the dominant narratives of Polish national mythology? How has the discussion on Polish antisemitism in relation to the Jedwabne pogrom changed after the conservative Law and Justice party came to power in 2015? The source material used consists of 45 newspaper pieces from Gazeta Wyborcza, Tygodnik Powszechny, and Polonia Christianapublished between 2016-2018. LÄS MER

4. 3. Tidens metamorfoser : En Bakhtinsk analys av Michael Endes Momo eller kampen om tiden

   Kandidat-uppsats, Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

   Författare :Tyra Sörlien; [2023]
   Nyckelord :chronotope; spatio-temporality; myth; fantasy; fairy-tale; mythic time; linear time; liminality;

   Sammanfattning : In this essay I use Mikhail Bakhtins theory of the chronotope to come to a deeper understanding of the spatio-temporal relationships in Momo and the Time Thieves. I use it to investigate the chronotopic structure of childhood, how it relates to the idea of the idyll, threshold experiences and heterotopic and liminal chronotopes. LÄS MER

5. 4. Floating Thresholds – On the Idea of the Portal in Architecture

   Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, KTH/Arkitektur

   Författare :Ivan Grelz; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Portal; Gate; Architecture; Theory; Threshold; Liminal; Nature; Myth; Ritual; Speed; Depth;

   Sammanfattning : This project investigates a specific concept within architecture: the portal. Divided into eight independent chapters, all possible to read as stand-alone parts, the thesis – a hybrid essay consisting of text, images, drawings and models – uses the portal as a springboard, or tool, for approaching existing theories on the invisible forces that shape the world and our built environment. LÄS MER

7. 5. First blood: Menarche as the foundation for women's self-realisation

   Master-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Författare :Elena Iacovou; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Parthenogenesis; goddess-worshipping; religion; religious studies; rites of passage; liminality; existential health.;

   Sammanfattning : Goddess-based civilisations worshipped the divine as a parthenogentic primordial creative force. Parthenogensis a Greek word that derives from parthenos “virgin” and genesis “from the beginning” was the path of liberation or rebirth into one’s divine nature. LÄS MER