Sökning: "Walter Benjamin"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade orden Walter Benjamin.
1. Det kritiska ögonblicket : Hölderlin, Benjamin, Celan
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2. Haloed Objects on Mental Parade : Myth and Magic in Post-War Surrealist Cinema
Sammanfattning : Following the end of World War II, the surrealist founder André Breton organized the exhibition Le Surréalisme en 1947. In conjunction with it, he announced a “change in direction” for surrealism, towards the search for a new myth, replete with magic. LÄS MER
3. Be for meg også : Om forkrøpling og lengsel etter forløsning i moderne litteratur og poetikk
Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with the ways in which the biblical narrative of the Fall, and more specifically the predicament of creatureliness (connoting innocence as well as depravation), can be traced as a cryptotheological motif within widely dissimilar modernist poetics and literary strategies. Postsecular theory and the return to the apostle Paul in recent political theology provide the backdrop for the seemingly disparate approaches of my case studies. LÄS MER
4. Psykets laboratorium : Skildringar av drogexperiment i Weimarrepubliken
Sammanfattning : Psykets laboratorium – skildringar av drogexperiment i Weimarrepubliken investigates texts produced during psychiatric self-experiments with psychedelic drugs in the Weimar Republic in the 1920s, featuring the philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) as a research subject. In these self-experiments, physicians and volunteer subjects wrote down their experiences of psychotic states that were evoked through the use of psychedelic drugs. LÄS MER
5. Två drömspel : från Strindbergs modernism till Potters television
Sammanfattning : This thesis studies the relations between modernism, mass culture and visual media. Using the dramatic form of the ”dream play” as focal point, it compares the drama of August Strindberg with the television series of Dennis Potter, and the theories of Walter Benjamin with those of Raymond Williams. LÄS MER