Sökning: "Fin De Siècle"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 23 avhandlingar innehållade orden Fin De Siècle.
16. Influence of microstructure on debonding at the fiber/matrix interface in fiber-reinforced polymers under tensile loading
Sammanfattning : At the end of the second decade of the XXI century, the transportation industry at large faces several challenges that will shape its evolution in the next decade and beyond. The first such challenge is the increasing public awareness and governmental action on climate change, which are increasing the pressure on the industrial sectors responsible for the greatest share of emissions, the transportation industry being one of them, to reduce their environmental footprint. LÄS MER
17. Beauty Box : Filmstjärnor och skönhetskultur i det tidiga 1900-talets Sverige
Sammanfattning : The object of this dissertation is the relationship between film, fashion and beauty concerning different understandings of femininity, with reference to the establishment of the star system and the making of celebrity culture, and how these were expressed through magazines and commercial ads in early 20th century Sweden. The period of time framing the discussion, from fin-de-siècle and onwards with specific focus on the 1920s and 1930s, corresponds to the course of publication of the Swedish magazine Filmjournalen. LÄS MER
18. Picturing Dissolving Views : August Strindberg and the Visual Media of His Age
Sammanfattning : The subject of this study is August Strindberg’s interaction with the visual media of his day. Its dual aim is to examine Strindberg’s work in the light of media history and to allow Strindberg’s work in turn to illuminate the media history of the fin de siècle. LÄS MER
19. INDEBTED BODIES, Debt and Decadence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the relationship between linguistic and stylistic innovation in nineteenth-century literature on the one hand and shifts in the dynamics of the economic sign system on the other. It draws on prior work on parallels between language and money and argues specifically that developments in the nineteenth-century novel can be understood in terms of the contemporaneous economic history, and that the two sign systems of language and money display structural similarities in this period. LÄS MER
20. The Archaeological Encounter in British Fiction, 1880–1940
Sammanfattning : Ancient artefacts appeared frequently in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century British fiction. Prehistoric stone circles, enigmatic potsherds, Egyptian mummies, and other such antiquities featured in everything from fin de siècle adventure narratives to the major works of High Modernism. LÄS MER
