Sökning: "madness"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 avhandlingar innehållade ordet madness.
1. “Lasciatemi morire” o farò “La Finta Pazza”: Embodying Vocal Nothingness on Stage in Italian and French 17th Century Operatic Laments and Mad Scenes
Sammanfattning : This music research drama thesis explores and presents a singer’s artistic research process from the first meeting with a musical score until the first steps of the performance on stage. The aim has been to define and formulate an understanding in sound as well as in words around the concept of pure voice in relation to the performance of 17th century vocal music from a 21st century singer’s practice-based perspective with reference to theories on nothingness, the role of the 17th century female singer, ornamentation (over-vocalization) and the singing of the nightingale. LÄS MER
2. Madness as the Foundation of Non-Culpability
Sammanfattning : Doctoral dissertation Abstract Background The relation between mental illness and accountability, may at its best be described as unclear. A negative correlation them between was established thousands of years ago, and has since formed a more or less self-evident supposition. This dissertation is an effort to test this construction. LÄS MER
3. ”¿Es que crees que estoy loco?” La narración de la conciencia en tres novelas de Ramón Hernández
Sammanfattning : This dissertation aims to explore how one character’s alleged madness can be called into question. Ramón Hernández’s novels often create an ambiguity about events that befall the main character: have they imagined the plot or did it really happen in the novel’s world? Using three novels by Hernández, this thesis makes the assertion that it is the reader himself who has the last word. LÄS MER
4. Las voces del 'loco'. La representación ambigua de la conciencia en "Pido la muerte al rey", de Ramón Hernández
Sammanfattning : This study focuses on some of the mechanisms that can create readerly ambiguity in the representation of “consciousness” (in this context understood as “mental activity”) in Ramón Hernández’ novel Pido la muerte al rey, which revolves around the life of psychiatric patient Gontrán Zaldívar. One kind of ambiguity arises from the constant shift between the autodiegetic and the heterodiegetic narrators in the novel. LÄS MER
5. Shakespearean parallels and affinities with the Theatre of the absurd in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead
Sammanfattning : The study elucidates the relation of Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to Hamlet on the one hand and to the Theatre of the Absurd on the other. The two plays chosen to represent the Theatre of the Absurd are Samuel Beckett1 s Waiting for Godot and Harold Pinter* s The Caretaker. LÄS MER
