Sökning: "Aesthetic Agency"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 17 avhandlingar innehållade orden Aesthetic Agency.
1. Aesthetic Valuing and the Self
Sammanfattning : This thesis concerns the relation between aesthetically valuable objects and the agents that aesthetically value them. An investigation is undertaken into the psychology and rationality of such agents. I argue that self-related elements such as emotions and standing value commitments play an irreducible role in successful aesthetic engagement. LÄS MER
2. In conversation with the Kolam practice: Auspiciousness and artistic experiences among Women in Tamilnadu, South India
Sammanfattning : This anthropological study explores the kolam, a South Indian practice where women daily draw geometrical images in front of their homes to invite the deities. Through this practice, women engage in social and religious processes. They generate an auspicious atmosphere and become constructed as feminine beings. LÄS MER
3. Att lära genom improvisation : en didaktisk studie i grundskolans musikundervisning
Sammanfattning : In the growing field of research on improvisation, it is argued that improvisation should be at the core of music education, and in many curricula improvisation is in fact emphasized. However, in general music education, as well as research, improvisation is still overlooked. LÄS MER
4. “Distantly a part”: Wallace Stevens and the Poetics of Modernist Autonomy
Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the social and political dimensions of aesthetic autonomy as it is given formal expression in Wallace Stevens’s poetry of the 1930s and the early 1940s. Whereas modernist claims to autonomy are often said to rest upon an ideological assertion of art’s detachment from socio-historical concerns, I argue that, in Stevens’s work, autonomy is conceived in relational terms, which gives rise to new lines of interconnection between his poetry and its cultural situation. LÄS MER
5. "Vi vill bli hörda!" : En studie om communityteater med unga tjejer och platsen som aktör
Sammanfattning : The subject of this study is a community theatre for, with and by girls aged 13–17. The theatre practice is situated within the field of applied theatre and as a communitarian practice engages with artistic, social and political ambitions by staging the everyday of marginalised people. LÄS MER
