Sökning: "flâneur"
Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade ordet flâneur.
1. Planerat, alltför planerat : En perspektivistisk studie i stadsplaneringens paradoxer
Sammanfattning : Why is it that modern architects and planners ? these benevolent and socially visionary ?experts? ? have created environments that can make one feel so uneasy? Such is the question that eventually grew into this thesis, where the aim is to enter into and understand the gap between ideals and realities in planning and architecture, with particular focus on projects that try to create an ?urban atmosphere?. As a starting point the author returns to the feelings she felt when she first visited one of these expertly planned areas; what the architects had described as an attractive, urban environment was to her a ghost town without life. LÄS MER
2. Ensamhet och gemenskap i förvandling - Vägar genom Eyvind Johnsons och Rudolf Värnlunds mellankrigsromaner
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to study how the Swedish working-class authors, and close friends, Eyvind Johnson (1900-1976) and Rudolf Värnlund (1900-1945) during the interwar period portray the individual and collectives of different kinds. The studied novels are Eyvind Johnson’s Timans och rättfärdigheten (1925; Timans and righteousness), Bobinack (1932), Romanen om Olof (1934-1937; The novel about Olof), and Rudolf Värnlund’s Vandrare till intet (1926; Wanderer to nothingness), De frias bojor (1931; The bonds of the free) and Hedningarna som icke hava lagen (1936; The Heathens who have not law). LÄS MER
3. Amerikafantasier : kön, medier och visualitet i svenska reseskildringar från USA 1945-63
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the construction of an imaginary America in Swedish travel writing from 1945 to 1963. By placing focus on the intersecting dimensions of gender, media, and visuality, the aim is to analyze Swedish notions of the US that surface both in the written word as well as in the illustrative material, by contextualizing these imaginings within the expanding media culture of the time. LÄS MER