En analys av hur användadet av motton i en roman, Tore Renbergs Mannen som elsket Yngve, påverkar och påverkas av romanens berättarnivåer, story och tematik.

Most people consider George Eliot a great Victorian novelist but neglect her role as a poetess. In fact, it is essential to read her poetry as well in order to grasp her thoughts. Her poems come mostly from her personal feelings, her observation of society, and her love of nature. This present thesis is a study of her poems and poetics, her poetic creativity, and her achievement in writing poetry. In the thesis, the introductory chapter has an overall look on George Eliot¡¦s poetic career. Chapter One examines her creative progress of composing poetry and her poetics. Chapter Two discusses her poetic experiment on dramatic poems in her times. The final chapter probes into the poetic mottoes applied to her last three novels. Most important of all, this thesis discovers George Eliot¡¦s identification as a poetess because she is conscious of what poetry offers and stimulates. This thesis, therefore, intends to show a new dimension of George Eliot as a poetess.

My work contains five videos. Installation presents videos on five separate tv screens. Each video duration is max 3 min. Videos are based on text. Text exists as installation in space and continues in form of performance. Content of text is simple wisdom which is twist off into nonsense. Realisation contains element of ephemerality. Former work is destroed by nature or human incidence.

Ce travail est composé de trois volumes, le premier étant l’analyse des objets de notre étude, le deuxième étant le volume d’illustrations et le troisième constituant un corpus d’étude composé de presque quatre-cent jetons différents (pratiquement tous conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale de France). L’analyse de ces objets suit trois axes de recherche principaux. Le premier consiste à observer les enjeux de la mécanisation de la frappe des jetons en France entre 1610 et 1661. Si le roi s’appuie sur les graveurs de jetons et cette nouvelle machinerie pour établir sa propre gloire dès 1610, les officiers de la Cour des Monnaies qui utilisaient la frappe au marteau perçoivent cet outil moderne comme un danger pour leurs privilèges. Notre analyse offre un nouveau regard sur cette administration centrale de l’Ancien Régime, trop longtemps observée comme une institution répréhensive, alors qu’elle donna naissance à de nouveaux offices qui ont participé à l’amélioration de la frappe des jetons et à leur usage commémoratif envers la couronne. Le deuxième axe entend renouveler la pensée sur l’institutionnalisation des devises visibles sur le revers des jetons. Alors que la Petite Académie créée en 1663 par Colbert est considérée comme pionnière dans l’invention de ces images symboliques, les prémisses de cette organisation sont déjà perceptibles en 1610. Enfin, une confrontation des objets de notre étude avec d’autres supports artistiques aide à comprendre que les jetons appartenaient à un univers visuel commun constitutif d’un langage aristocratique qui renforçait le lien entre le monarque et ses sujets. En s’appuyant sur les recueils de monnaies antiques, les traités symboliques, notre étude offre une nouvelle étude interprétative de ces devises jetonnières. / This work is in three volumes, the first volume is the analysis of royal tokens, the second volume is made up illustrations and the third volume is a study corpus composed of four hundred tokens (essentially from the collections of the National library of France). The analysis consists of three parts. The first part involves understanding issues in the invention of the mechanical press and its use in France between 1610 and 1661. As the king supported engravers of tokens and their new machine as they rose to glory from 1610 onwards, officers of the Monetary Court used to strike with the hammer saw the modern tool as a threat for their privileges. Our study shows the need to go beyond former perceptions of this institution and examine how the Monetary Court created offices that improved the manufacture of tokens. The second part is a new consideration of how a designs for the back of tokens were already institutionalized in 1610’s, before the creation of the Academy of inscriptions and Belles-Lettres by Colbert. Lastly, by comparing tokens with other artistic mediums, we consider how these items belong to a visual and common language developed for aristocratic people, that strengthened the link between the king and his favorites. Based on collection of antique coins, symbolic treaties, our study deliveries news interpretations of the tokens and their production.

Text in Afrikaans / This research describes the coats of arms and emblems of hospitals and nursing colleges in the Republic of South Africa, an aspect of nursing's heritage and history have not yet been described. Data were collected by means of questionnaires. An extensive literature review on heraldics and an analysis of the meanings contained in the symbols appearing on these devices were done. The analysis resulted in the following; the uniqueness of the individual devices, the development of nursing and nursing education, the influence of values, norms, ideals, culture, religion and history on the selection of symbols. The heraldic meanings of symbols and the meanings indicated in the questionnaires were compared with the identified core concepts for nursing. The overall finding was that any congruence was purely circumstantial. / Hierdie navorsing beskryf die wapens en embleme van hospitale en verpleegkolleges in die Republiek van Suid-Afrika, 'n aspek van die erfenis en geskiedenis van verpleging wat nog nie vantevore beskryf is nie. Inligting was deur middel van vraelyste ingesamel. 'n Uitgebreide literatuuroorsig oor die heraldiek en 'n ontleding van die betekenisse van die simbole soos aangetref op die wapens/embleme, is gedoen.Uit die analisering is die volgende bevind; die uniekheid van die individuele wapens/embleme, die ontwikkeling van verpleging en verpleegonderrig, die invloed van waardes, norme, ideale, kultuur, godsdiens en geskiedenis op die keuse van simbole. Die heraldiese betekenis van simbole en die betekenis wat in die vraelyste daaroor aangedui is, is met die geidentifiseerde kembegrippe vir verpleging, vergelyk. Die algemene bevinding is dat enige ooreenkoms bloot toevallig is. / Health Studies / M.A. (Verpleegkunde)

Text in Afrikaans / This research describes the coats of arms and emblems of hospitals and nursing colleges in the Republic of South Africa, an aspect of nursing's heritage and history have not yet been described. Data were collected by means of questionnaires. An extensive literature review on heraldics and an analysis of the meanings contained in the symbols appearing on these devices were done. The analysis resulted in the following; the uniqueness of the individual devices, the development of nursing and nursing education, the influence of values, norms, ideals, culture, religion and history on the selection of symbols. The heraldic meanings of symbols and the meanings indicated in the questionnaires were compared with the identified core concepts for nursing. The overall finding was that any congruence was purely circumstantial. / Hierdie navorsing beskryf die wapens en embleme van hospitale en verpleegkolleges in die Republiek van Suid-Afrika, 'n aspek van die erfenis en geskiedenis van verpleging wat nog nie vantevore beskryf is nie. Inligting was deur middel van vraelyste ingesamel. 'n Uitgebreide literatuuroorsig oor die heraldiek en 'n ontleding van die betekenisse van die simbole soos aangetref op die wapens/embleme, is gedoen.Uit die analisering is die volgende bevind; die uniekheid van die individuele wapens/embleme, die ontwikkeling van verpleging en verpleegonderrig, die invloed van waardes, norme, ideale, kultuur, godsdiens en geskiedenis op die keuse van simbole. Die heraldiese betekenis van simbole en die betekenis wat in die vraelyste daaroor aangedui is, is met die geidentifiseerde kembegrippe vir verpleging, vergelyk. Die algemene bevinding is dat enige ooreenkoms bloot toevallig is. / Health Studies / M.A. (Verpleegkunde)