Sökning: "monstrosity"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade ordet monstrosity.

  1. 1. Monstret & människan : Paré, Deleuze och teratologiska traditioner i fransk filosofi, från renässanshumanism till posthumanism

    Författare :Jonnie Eriksson; Gunnar Broberg; Michael Azar; Anders Johansson; Högskolan i Halmstad; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; difference; materiality; the body; teratology; humanist philosophy; monstrosity; anomaly; the inhuman; Ambroise Paré; Gilles Deleuze; natural philosophy; Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire; organization; the posthuman; order; affect; multiplicity; becoming; Gilles Deleuze; Ambroise Paré; Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire; teratologi; humanistisk filosofi; monstruositet; anomali; kropp; materialitet; affekt; mångfald; skillnad; blivande; History of science and ideas; Idé- o lärdomshistoria; materiality; difference; the body; teratology; humanist philosophy; monstrosity; anomaly; the inhuman; Ambroise Paré; Gilles Deleuze; natural philosophy; Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire; organization; the posthuman; order; affect; multiplicity; becoming;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies the problem of the inhuman in relation to human nature in philosophy from antiquity to the present, highlighting the interrelationship between science and philosophy in the development of concepts of monstrosity in France from mid-sixteenth century to late twentieth century thought. By means of constraint, it focuses on Ambroise Paré (1509/10–90) and Gilles Deleuze (1925–95) as representatives of early humanism and posthumanism, respectively. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Den ensamma sjöjungfrun : Om Carina Rydbergs jagberättande ur ett genreperspektiv

    Författare :Tamara Andersson; Maria Jönsson; Elisabeth Hästbacka; Annelie Bränström Öhman; Anna Forssberg; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Carina Rydberg; autofiction; autobiography; identity narrative; the Gothic; female Gothic; genre; Swedish literature; identity; gender; sex; femininity; monstrosity; female authors; transgression; the uncanny; intelligibility; Carina Rydberg; autofiktion; självbiografi; jagberättande; gotik; genre; svensk litteratur; identitet; genus; kön; femininitet; monster; kvinnliga författare; författarroll; transgression; det kusliga; das Unheimliche; begriplighet; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; gender studies; genusvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The focus of this study is the two autobiographical novels Den högsta kasten (1997) and Djävulsformeln (2000) by Swedish author Carina Rydberg. Both novels generated lively public debate regarding how they ought to be read and understood, what genre they belonged to, and the ontological status of the narrating “I”. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Monsterkroppar : Transformation, transmedialitet och makeoverkultur

    Författare :Kristina Stenström; Anja Hirdman; Kristina Riegert; Thomas Johansson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; transmedia; audience; television; embodied spectatorship; makeover culture; late modernity; monstrosity; monster; vampire; zombie; transmedia; publik; television; förkroppsligat åskådarskap; makeoverkultur; senmodernitet; monstrositet; monster; vampyr; zombie; Media and Communication Studies; medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This study offers insights into the motif of monstrous corporality in a transmedia environment, through the vampire and zombie characters. Different narratives of corporeal transformation surround us constantly. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Wicked women and witches. Subversive readings of the female monster in Mexican and Argentinian horror film

    Författare :Valeria Alejandra Villegas Lindvall; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; feminist philosophy; decolonial thought; monstrosity; Latin America; horror cinema; Mexico; Argentina; La Llorona; witch; monster;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis accrues to the growing field of Latin American horror scholarship in relation to gender and sexuality, discussing the implications of the representation of the feminized, racialized and/or impoverished monster in relation to Mexican and Argentinian national identity discourses. The thesis looks at two distinct iterations of gendered monstrosity in Mexican and Argentinian visual culture: La Llorona and the bruja (witch), respectively. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Perversa tidsligheter : Ageplay och litenhet ur ett queertemporalt perspektiv

    Författare :Elin Bengtsson; Kristina Fjelkestam; Fanny Ambjörnsson; Ulrika Dahl; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ageplay; queer theory; sexuality; temporality; BDSM; play; fantasy; gender; age; domesticity; figure of the Child; vulnerability; monstrosity; genusvetenskap; Gender Studies;

    Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis investigates how temporality is constructed and negotiated in ageplay, a term for practices based on performative, non-chronological age and age differences. The empirical material consists of interviews with adults identifying with littleness. LÄS MER