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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 41 uppsatser innehållade orden Simon Book.
1. (Ensam)tid – En(samtid) : En tematisk närläsning av samtida ensamhet i Ottessa Moshfeghs Eileen (2015) och My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018)
Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/LitteraturvetenskapSammanfattning : This essay examines the portrayal of present-day loneliness in the novels Eileen (2015) and My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018) by contemporary author Ottessa Moshfegh. The main point of departure for this examination has been through a literary sociological standpoint which claims the inevitable effects of the current time and place through which a work is being produced in, therefore, enabling an examination of modern-day loneliness even though the stories take place in an imagined past. LÄS MER
2. Hjälten nyanserad : En komparativ karaktärsstudie via närläsning av Beowulf och Odyssevs utifrån Joseph Campbells ”monomyt” och maskulinitetsteori
Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/LitteraturvetenskapSammanfattning : The purpose of this essay is to show that what defines a hero is far more complicated than the prolific author and mythological expert Joseph Campbell would have one believe – in his view, heroic qualities stem from a certain type of chosen individual and reoccurring narrative motifs without taking social structures and masculinity into account. By analyzing the characters Beowulf and Odysseus through a filter, consisting of Campbells model of the “hero’s journey” along with perspectives provided by studies in the masculinity field done by Raewyn Connell and Jørgen Lorentzen together with Claes Ekenstam, this essay concludes, in short, the following: applying Campbells model of the hero does reveal several similarities between the two characters, though it ultimately fails to prove any deeper connection. LÄS MER
3. Det blir lättare om de läser en bok som de ändåkänner att de kan relatera till : En kvalitativ studie med svensklärare på högstadienivå
Magister-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Sammanfattning : There has been a downward trend in reading ability and motivation to read among Swedishadolescents in recent decades. This study aims to investigate, through qualitative semi-structuredresearch interviews, what the opinions are of several Swedish teachers at the upper secondarylevel regarding reading fiction and what methods they use to motivate their students to readfiction. LÄS MER
4. Reinforcement Learning for Market Making
Master-uppsats, KTH/Matematisk statistikSammanfattning : Market making – the process of simultaneously and continuously providing buy and sell prices in a financial asset – is rather complicated to optimize. Applying reinforcement learning (RL) to infer optimal market making strategies is a relatively uncharted and novel research area. LÄS MER
5. Styrs kvinnors sexuella begär av samhället och kulturen? : En tematisk studie om kvinnligt sexuellt begär i Lisa Taddeos bok Three Women
Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Sammanfattning : This essay examines how female sexual desire is expressed in Lisa Taddeo's novel Three Women (2021). The theoretical framework consists of work by Emily Nagoski, Eugenia Cherkasskaya, and Margaret Rosario along with John H. Gagnon and William Simon. LÄS MER