Sökning: "modernism and modernity"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 35 avhandlingar innehållade orden modernism and modernity.
1. Den moderne Ivar Lo-Johansson: Modernisering, modernitet och modernism i statarromanerna
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the modernity of the Swedish proletarian author Ivar Lo-Johansson (1901-1990), as manifested in the so-called 'statare' novels: Godnatt, jord (Breaking Free, 1933), Bara en mor (Only a Mother, 1939), and Traktorn (1943). The dissertation examines, on the one hand, modernisation and modernity as the topoi of these novels, and on the other, how the author relates to the literary tendency that has come to signify the aesthetic modernisation of the 20th century, i. LÄS MER
2. Prosadikt och modernitet : prosadikt som gränsföreteelse i europeisk litteratur, med särskild inriktning på Skandinavien 1880-1910
Sammanfattning : In international research, the term prose poem generally describes a particular genre, created by Louis Bertrand and Charles Baudelaire. But the term, as well as the conceptual opposition between prose and poetry that it refers to, became central to the aesthetic debate already at the end of the 17th century. LÄS MER
3. Changing the Colours of the World. Modernism and Modernity in Chinese Drama and Film, 1919-1937
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the role of modernism and modernity in Chinese spoken drama and film during the years between the May Fourth Movement and the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. This influence is traced through close readings of a selection of works in different categories, underlining relevant themes and structures that are recurring in both drama and film. LÄS MER
4. Att skriva det grekiska : En otidsenlig position i svenskspråkig modernism
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to analyze how ancient Greek philosophy and literature – as it was mediated through Nietzsche – gained a vital function in the rise of early Swedish modernism and its later expressions. The turn to antiquity, within a modernism confined to the Swedish language, was not only intended as a breach in tradition, but above all to think anew, to transgress the conventions of (one’s) time. LÄS MER
5. The senses of modernism : Technology, perception, and modernist aesthetics
Sammanfattning : This study argues that there is a constitutive relationship between technological change and literary modernism. Moving within a historical trajectory that extends from 1880 to 1930, The Senses of Modernism proposes that high-modernist aesthetics is inseparable from a newly emergent and technologically mediated crisis of the senses. LÄS MER
