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1. Det groteska : Kroppens språk och språkets kropp i svensk lyrisk modernism
Sammanfattning : It is the objective of this thesis to trace the grotesque image and determine its configurations in Swedish lyrical modernism, and to reveal the theoretical and historical incentives to these images. The grotesque image has been a powerful expression during the 20th century. LÄS MER
2. The Quest for Recognition : The Holocaust and French Historical Culture, 1945–65
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the development of Holocaust remembrance in France, taking the activities of the Centre de documentation juive contemporaine in Paris as its focus. By looking at the construction, function, and reception of Holocaust narratives in the twenty years following the end of the War, it shows how remembrance took shape within French historical culture, and, conversely, how representations of the genocide influenced France’s national-historical culture. LÄS MER
3. Det absoluta och det gemensamma : Benjamin Höijers konstfilosofi
Sammanfattning : This thesis is the first interpretation of Benjamin Höijer’s philosophy of art. Höijer (1767–1812), who was a Swedish representative of German idealism, is considered one of the brightest thinkers in the history of Swedish philosophy, although to this day he has been largely neglected. LÄS MER
4. The Urk World : Hibernating Infrastructures and the Quest for Urban Mining
Sammanfattning : This PhD thesis concerns urban mining, an umbrella term for different recycling strategies aimed to recover materials from the built environment. More specifically, it focuses on hibernating urban infrastructures, that is: cables and pipes that have been left behind in their subsurface location after they were disconnected. LÄS MER
5. The Orphic Voice : T. S. Eliot and the Mallarmean Quest for Meaning
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores certain common denominators in the work of T. S. Eliot and the French symbolist poets. LÄS MER