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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 21 uppsatser innehållade ordet immortality.
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)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
2. En etik för odödliga : Faderskap och begär i Stephenie Meyers Midnight Sun
Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/ReligionsvetenskapSammanfattning : This paper analyzes the concept of immortality as expressed in Stephenie Meyer’s vampire romance novel Midnight Sun (2021). By way of a comparison with the authors Mormon faith, I intend to highlight how the main characters portray key parts of LDS soteriology. LÄS MER
3. Heracles and the lion : Analysis of a black-figure lekythos from the Gustavianum collection
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaSammanfattning : This study analyzes the appearance of the myth of Heracles and the Nemean lion on a lekythos from the Uppsala University Museum Gustavianum collection in Uppsala. The lekythos is a small oil vessel generally associated with fifth century B.C. burials. LÄS MER
4. Midnattssol : Metamorfoser och medvetandefilosofi i The Hidden Oracle och Midnight Sun
Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaperSammanfattning : The aim of this work is to examine how physical and mental metamorphoses affect the perception of the self. To do this I study the literary characters Apollo (The Hidden Oracle, by Rick Riordan) and Edward Cullen (Midnight Sun, by Stephenie Meyer), both of whom experience these different kinds of metamorphoses. LÄS MER
5. The Lily of the Nile : A work on the ritualistic use of an ancient flower of immortality
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Centrum för forskning om religion och samhälle (CRS)Sammanfattning : In pharaonic times, religion, magic and medicine had little distinction between each other due to the commonly held belief that all parts of life were influenced and even controlled by divinity and the supernatural. To navigate life easier, and in true Egyptian fashion, a large corpus of text was composed of magic, medicine and religion. LÄS MER