Sökning: "decadence in literature"

Visar resultat 6 - 9 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden decadence in literature.

  1. 6. Immortality through Art: The Evolution of a Decadent Theme in Four Novels within and beyond the Fin de Siècle

    Författare :Tia Stajic Löfgren; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; decadence in literature; immortality-through-art theme; secularization; art; mortality; love;

    Sammanfattning : Abstract Stajic Löfgren, Tia. Immortality through Art: The Evolution of a Decadent Theme in Four Novels within and beyond the Fin de Siècle. University of Gothenburg: Department of Languages and Literatures, 2012. LÄS MER

  2. 7. INDEBTED BODIES, Debt and Decadence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

    Författare :Signe Leth Gammelgaard; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; New Economic Criticism; debt; Balzac; Trollope; Zola; Huysmans; Wilde; Mirbeau; money; nineteenth-century novel; economy and literature; materialism; Marxist literary theory; semiotics; Saussure; the human body in literature.;

    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

  3. 8. Satanic Feminism : Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture

    Författare :Per Faxneld; Erik af Edholm; Peter Jackson; Henrik Bogdan; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Satanism; feminism; gender; esotericism; witches; Lilith; theosophy; socialism; homosexuality; gothic; decadence; romanticism; counter-reading; counter-myth; History of Religion; religionshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : Enligt Bibeln var Eva först med att lyssna till ormen och äta av den förbjudna frukten. Tanken på kvinnan som Satans utvalda är framträdande under stora delar av kristendomens historia. Under 1800-talet kom feminister att börja läsa denna misogyna tradition motvalls. LÄS MER

  4. 9. Speaking with a Forked Tongue. Double Reading Strategies in Romány tri mágu by Jirí Karásek ze Lvovic

    Författare :Roar Lishaugen; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Czech literature; Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic; decadence; novel; trilogy; Umberto Eco; Prague School; queer theory; book history; reception theory; semiotics; narratology; model reader; structural addressee; reader role; reading strategies; ambiguity; paratexts; self-stylization; fictive author; artefact; reception; literary norm; personality; concretization; Gilles Deleuze; Félix Guattari; minor literature.;

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