Sökning: "decadence"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 avhandlingar innehållade ordet decadence.
1. 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
2. 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
3. Aspekter på den italienska fascismen : texter och tolkningar
Sammanfattning : Initially an attempt is made to present an overview of the interpretations of the meaning of Fascism. In a presentation of the views of Renzo De Felice and Zeev Sternhell the opinions of the latter are highlighted. LÄS MER
4. Satanic Feminism : Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture
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
5. 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
