Sökning: "new mythology"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 21 avhandlingar innehållade orden new mythology.
1. 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
2. Claiming Rome : Portraiture and Social Identity in the Eighteenth Century
Sammanfattning : This study examines two groups of European nobility, the Roman aristocracy and the British Grand Tour travellers, specifically, their attitudes towards Antiquity as expressed in portraits produced in eighteenth-century Rome. Antiquity in this study connotes Ancient Rome, particularly its political system, religious system and architecture, and assumes it to be the quintessence of a Western mythology that had supported the legitimation of the ruling classes since the Middle Ages. LÄS MER
3. Tecknets tragedi : Symbol och allegori i Atterboms sagospel Lycksalighetens ö : [symbol and allegory in Atterboms fairytale play The Island of Felicity]
Sammanfattning : This study deals with the concepts of symbol and allegory in Idealist/Romantic aesthetic doctrine, with special consideration given to one of the principal works of Swedish Romantic literature, P.D.A. Atterbom's fairytale play Lycksalighetens ö (The island of Felicity). LÄS MER
4. Stenålder i Mälardalen
Sammanfattning : In this thesis the signifi cance of certain places during the Early- and Middle Neolithic is examined. By investigating the meaning of places, narratives of the Neolithic based upon the archaeological constructions of the “Funnel Beaker culture”, the ”Pitted Ware culture”, and the “Battle Axe culture” are questioned. LÄS MER
5. Ariska idoler : Den indoeuropeiska mytologin som ideologi och vetenskap
Sammanfattning : By using ancient texts, medieval documents, philological observations, and archaeological artifacts, scholars have reconstructed a prehistorical world and religion. The people who upheld this culture have been named, inter alia, "Indo-Europeans", "Aryans", "Japhetites" and "Wiros". LÄS MER