Sökning: "Modernism"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 146 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Modernism.
1. 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
2. Två drömspel : från Strindbergs modernism till Potters television
Sammanfattning : This thesis studies the relations between modernism, mass culture and visual media. Using the dramatic form of the ”dream play” as focal point, it compares the drama of August Strindberg with the television series of Dennis Potter, and the theories of Walter Benjamin with those of Raymond Williams. LÄS MER
3. 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
4. Något betydelsefullt : Leonid Dobyčins möten bortom orden i den sovjetiska samtiden
Sammanfattning : This thesis studies the 1931 short story collection Portret [The Portrait] by the Russian author Leonid Ivanovich Dobychin (1894–1936?). My main argument is that the principal theme in Dobychin’s writings arises out of the complexities of human encounters. LÄS MER
5. Stockholm med modernismen i centrum : Cityomdaningen ur ett aktörs- och ett mediaperspektiv
Sammanfattning : Urban planning is intertwined with societal developments in general, especially aspects pertaining to technology, economy, and politics. Of similar fundamental importance are the values, ideals and visions that inform urban planning praxis in any particular era. LÄS MER
