Sökning: "decadence in literature"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden decadence in literature.
1. The Margins of Writing: A Study of Arthur Machen and the Literary Field of the 1890s
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to analyse the early writings of Arthur Machen (1863?1947) by focusing on three aspects of literary production: the field, the author, and the text. In all these aspects position-takings in the field, the construction of an author's identity, and textual production ? Machen's early career is informed by a particular and idiosyncratic notion of aesthetic creation, referred to in this study as the "aesthetics of failure". LÄS MER
2. Paria : Brottslingen och normaliseringen av människan i Strindbergs, Hanssons och Geijerstams författarskap
Sammanfattning : Den här studien handlar om gestaltningar av brottslingar och den större kulturella frågan om normaliseringen av människan sedd genom tre svenska författarskap från sekelskiftet 1900: August Strindberg, Ola Hansson och Gustaf af Geijerstam. Frågan om brottslingens identitet blev aktuell vid den här tiden. LÄS MER
3. The Narcissus Theme from Fin de Siècle to Psychoanalysis : Crisis of the Modern Self
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is an intertextual-thematological investigation of the Narcissus theme at the turn of the century 1900. It focuses primarily on French-, German-, and English-language decadent and Symbolist literature from the 1890s and early 1900s, as well as on early sexology and psychoanalysis. LÄS MER
4. Hemsökelser : Gotiken i sex berättelser av Selma Lagerlöf
Sammanfattning : The topic of this thesis is the gothic fiction of Selma Lagerlöf. Its primary purpose is to investigate how Lagerlöf's work can be understood in relation to the gothic genre; what particular themes, motifs and formal aspects appear when making this connection and how they can be interpreted, as well as which literary and cultural contexts become relevant. LÄS MER
5. Les Figures féminines de la Décadence et leurs implications esthétiques dans quelques romans français et suédois
Sammanfattning : “The female figures of the Decadence and their aesthetic significance in some French and Swedish novels” This thesis compares Swedish and French literary prose fiction written between 1884 and1892 and its approach to Decadent themes, with focus on the female portraits and their aesthetic impact. Eight texts are analyzed in order to explore how the Swedish fin de siècle literature – partly interpreted as belonging to the political literary program of the ”Modern Breakthrough” – relates to the French literature and the Decadence. LÄS MER