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  1. 1. "Creating the Senses" : Sensation in the work of Shelley Jackson

    Författare :Tove Solander; Maria Lindgren Leavenworth; Gabriele Griffin; Sara Danius; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Shelley Jackson; senses; literary percepts; body art; object art; hypertext; fantastic fiction; minor writing; écriture féminine; queer theory; feminist theory; phenomenology; Gilles Deleuze; engelska; English; Aesthetics; estetik; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This monograph on the œuvre of contemporary American author and multimedia artist Shelley Jackson addresses the question of how literary works employ language to evoke sense impressions. Gilles Deleuze’s notion of aesthetic percepts is drawn on to develop a theory of literary phantom sensations which is then tested on the work of Jackson and related authors. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Seven Senses of the City : Urban Spacetime and Sensory Memory in Contemporary Sinophone Fiction

    Författare :Astrid Møller-Olsen; Kinesiska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literary sensory studies; sensory studies; urban fiction; senses; Sinophone fiction; comparative literature; Chinese literature; Taipei; Hong Kong; Shanghai; literary studies; spacetime; spatiality; narratology; rhythmanalysis;

    Sammanfattning : The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the narrative mechanisms and imagery that fictional works employ to conceptualize and communicate complex human experiences of space, time and memory. Furthermore, this study shows how contemporary cities change the way we think about such basic concepts by analyzing narratives that employ and encourage multisensory, spatiotemporal understandings of reality characterized by permeable boundaries between the material, social and imaginary domains. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The senses of modernism : Technology, perception, and modernist aesthetics

    Författare :Sara Danius; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; modernism and modernity; literature and technology; literary history; cultural studies; human body in literature; visual culture; cinema studies; Thomas Mann; Marcel Proust; James Joyce; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This study argues that there is a constitutive relationship between technological change and literary modernism. Moving within a historical trajectory that extends from 1880 to 1930, The Senses of Modernism proposes that high-modernist aesthetics is inseparable from a newly emergent and technologically mediated crisis of the senses. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Rytmen bor i mina steg : En rytmanalytisk studie om kropp, stad och kunskap

    Författare :Sara Johansson; Irene Molina; Sofia Cele; Katja Tollmar Grillner; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :rhythmanalysis; rhythm; methodology; method; knowledge process; movement; city; walking; body; mind; embodiment; Cartesian dualism; affect; emotion; feeling; senses; touch; sensory ethnography; non-representational theory; phenomenology; new materialism material feminism; situated knowledge; autoethnography; creative reflective experimental narrative writing; memory; rytmanalys; rytm; metodologi; metod; kunskap; rörelse; stad; promenad; kropp; medvetande; förkroppsligande; cartesiansk dualism; affekt; emotion; känsla; sinnen; känsel; sinnlig sensorisk etnografi; icke-representationell teori; fenomenologi; ny materialism materiell feminism; situerad kunskap; autoetnografi; kreativt reflekterande experimentellt narrativt skrivande; minne; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis brings together a fascination with the city and a keen interest in the knowledge process. The point of departure is the bodily, sensory and emotional experience. That the author uses her own perceptions and experiences and is preoccupied with her own knowledge process means that she writes herself into an autoethnographic context. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Guilty Pleasures : Kāma in ancient India and the Pali Vinaya

    Författare :Anthony Fiorucci; Jens Wilhelm Borgland; Rupert Gethin; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ancient India; aesthetics; asceticism; Buddhism; kāma; Pali literature; monasticism; senses; sensuality; Vinaya; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

    Sammanfattning : While most heavily associated with treatises such as the Kāmasūtra, the notion of kāma (‘sensual desire,’ ‘sensual pleasure’) has deep roots in South Asian intellectual and cultural history. Strongly associated with eroticism, kāma in fact extends far beyond mere sexuality encompassing what may be called sensuality broadly understood. LÄS MER