Sökning: "turn of the twentieth-century art"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden turn of the twentieth-century art.
1. Spiritual transcendence and androgyny within Swedish and Finnish transnational Symbolism
Sammanfattning : This Doctoral thesis is an examination of a group of Swedish and Finnish artists and their role as important and active participants in a transnational Symbolist movement. It deals with the depiction of the spiritually enhanced human body in the work of the Swedish artists Olof Sager-Nelson and Tyra Kleen, and the Finnish artists Magnus Enckell, Ellen Thesleff and Beda Stjernschantz, as one central topic within the European Symbolist art movement. LÄS MER
2. Begynnelser. Litteraturforskningens pionjärkvinnor 1850–1930 : Beginnings. The Pioneering Women in Swedish Literary Historiography, from 1850 to 1930
Sammanfattning : The present thesis is on the subject of beginnings, when Swedish women first entered the literary field and began to write about literature and to address the gender perspective. The first phase began when Sophie Leijonhufvud (married name Adlersparre) and Rosalie Olivecrona established the journal Tidskrift för hemmet (The Journal of Domestic Life, 1859), one of the main Swedish women's fora for intellectual development and dissemination of literature. LÄS MER
3. Samhälle, vetenskap och obstetrik : Elis Essen-Möller och kvinnokliniken i Lund
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with issues of power and medicine in the context of early twentieth century Swedish obstetrics and gynaecology. The study starts at rather a narrow point of investigation with a general history of Lund University Hospital and a few of its main characters. LÄS MER
4. Överflöd och ofullbordan : Essä om det moderna
Sammanfattning : The problem which the present study discusses is modernity. The study interprets modernity’s cultural and anthropological dispositions as historical appearances. Consequently, it is situated at the intersection of cultural sociology and historical anthropology. The aim is to generate insight and understanding rather than a coherent theory. LÄS MER
5. Något betydelsefullt : Leonid Dobyčins möten bortom orden i den sovjetiska samtiden
Sammanfattning : This thesis studies the 1931 short story collection Portret [The Portrait] by the Russian author Leonid Ivanovich Dobychin (1894–1936?). My main argument is that the principal theme in Dobychin’s writings arises out of the complexities of human encounters. LÄS MER
