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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade ordet nothingness.
1. “Lasciatemi morire” o farò “La Finta Pazza”: Embodying Vocal Nothingness on Stage in Italian and French 17th Century Operatic Laments and Mad Scenes
Sammanfattning : This music research drama thesis explores and presents a singer’s artistic research process from the first meeting with a musical score until the first steps of the performance on stage. The aim has been to define and formulate an understanding in sound as well as in words around the concept of pure voice in relation to the performance of 17th century vocal music from a 21st century singer’s practice-based perspective with reference to theories on nothingness, the role of the 17th century female singer, ornamentation (over-vocalization) and the singing of the nightingale. LÄS MER
2. Strindbergs värld : En tematisk författarskapsläsning
Sammanfattning : August Strindbergs verk är inte bara berättelser om yttre förhållanden och objekt, de är också uttryck för ett skapande medvetande. Genom närläsningar av sex stilmässigt representativa verk, däribland Fröken Julie och Inferno, frilägger Karin Aspenberg i denna studie en provisorisk föreställning av medvetandets erfarenhetsvärld och bryter ny mark inom Strindbergsforskningen. LÄS MER
3. Moving beyond stewards versus agents : Exploring business managers as existential beings in the interior-design and furniture industry in Småland, Sweden
Sammanfattning : Exploring two theoretical positions in the field of corporate governance – stewardship theory and agency theory – Moving beyond stewards versus agents homes in on the positions’ respective conceptions of managers. Although fundamentally drawing a clear line between the two positions, these conceptions also conjoin them. LÄS MER
4. The Nothing That Is : The Structure of Consciousness in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens
Sammanfattning : This is a study of the poetry of the American writer Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). Stevens’ poetry is often concerned with the relation between consciousness and world, the perceiver and the perceived. This dissertation takes the investigation of the very “structure” or “pattern” of consciousness as its main purpose. LÄS MER
5. Appropriations of Shakespeare's King Lear in Three Modern North American Novels
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the creative appropriation of Shakespeare in theory and practice. It is based on close readings of King Lear alongside three appropriations of the play in works of fiction by three North American women writers: Jane Smiley, Anne Tyler, and Margaret Atwood. The aim is to demonstrate how a ‘palimpsestic’ reading, i.e. LÄS MER
