Sökning: "midnight sun"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 uppsatser innehållade orden midnight sun.

  1. 1. The Body as a Grenade : Illness Metaphors, The Suffering of Others and Conservativism in Contemporary Sick-Flicks

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

    Författare :Christian Gregory; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Cancer; Sick-Lit; Sick-Flicks; Cystic Fibrosis; CF; SCID; YA Literature; YA Films; The Fault in Our Stars; Five Feet Apart; Midnight Sun; Love Story; John Green;

    Sammanfattning : Film has since its inception been a potent storytelling tool, and the concept of illnesses and death havebeen a critical element in the stories mankind has told through cinema since the beginning. While theearly years of film saw few titles which directly named or featured diseases such as cancer, the 1980’sand 1990’s saw a vast increase in illness narratives being produced. LÄS MER

  3. 2. En etik för odödliga : Faderskap och begär i Stephenie Meyers Midnight Sun

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Religionsvetenskap

    Författare :Julia Folkesson Norberg; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Mormonism; Immortality; Twilight; Vampire; Baptism for the dead; Priesthood; Godhead; Mormonism; Odödlighet; Twilight; Vampyr; Dop för de döda; Prästadöme; Gudom;

    Sammanfattning : 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

  4. 3. Eternal sunshine on the flower-spotted ground : Investigating diel rhythms during midnight sun on high-Arctic pollinators

    Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap

    Författare :Emma Limosa Djurberg; [2021]
    Nyckelord :High Arctic; Svalbard; Spitsbergen; insects; diel rythms; midnight sun; adaptation; foraging;

    Sammanfattning : With over 600 articles about terrestrial invertebrates in Svalbard we still lack basic knowledge about pollinator-plant interactions in this part of the high-Arctic. It has never before been investigated how the activity of pollinators varies over a 24-hour timeframe in the high Arctic. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Midnattssol : Metamorfoser och medvetandefilosofi i The Hidden Oracle och Midnight Sun

    Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper

    Författare :Malin Jonsson Höök; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Rick Riordan; Stephenie Meyer; The Hidden Oracle; Midnight Sun; Apollo; Edward Cullen; Philosophy of mind; Mind-body problem; Metamorphosis; Death; Immortality; Mortality; Rick Riordan; Stephenie Meyer; The Hidden Oracle; Oraklets Gåta; Midnight Sun; Midnattssol; Apollo; Apollon; Edward Cullen; Medvetandefilosofi; Kropp-själ-problemet; Metamorfoser; Död; Odödlighet; Dödlighet;

    Sammanfattning : 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

  7. 5. Midnattssolens män, norrskenens nycker : Konstruktioner av manlighet i nutida norrländsk litteratur

    Magister-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper

    Författare :Tim Bergström; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Queer Studies; Rurality; Norrland; Hegemonic Masculinity; Novels; Queerstudier; ruralitet; Norrland; hegemonisk maskulinitet; romaner;

    Sammanfattning : The image of Northern Sweden has long been subjected to stereotyping, and the stereo­typed image of the Northerner is widely spread in various media contexts within Sweden. Historically, Norrland has been regarded as a wide wilderness, and the Norr­landic literature in turn has typically been studied in terms of the pastoral genre, the romanti­cism of the wilderness, or from an eco-critical perspective. LÄS MER