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Found 5 swedish dissertations matching the above criteria.
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1. Metaphor as a mode of interpretation : An essay on interactional and contextual sense-making processes, metaphorology, and verbal arts
Abstract : This essay is an attempt to assess the oddity and importance of metaphor, both viewed as inseparable, internal aspects of the metaphorical sense-making activity. To outline the "challenge" of metaphor, arguments are made against the traditional approaches to metaphor, namely the idea that metaphor is a thing, an entity out there in the discourse or text, whose meaning is embedded within its discrete units and parts. READ MORE
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2. Metaphor, Formalism, and Linguistics
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3. An aesthetics of resistance : the open-ended practice of language writing
Abstract : This dissertation investigates the relation between poetry and theory in the poetic practice of language writing. The topic is approached from the idea that language writing takes place in the tension of an open-ended state. READ MORE
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4. ’’... is it hunger or superabundance that has here become creative?’’ : Nietzsche on Creativity in Art and Life
Abstract : Art and the artistic are concepts Friedrich Nietzsche uses in a narrow sense regarding works of art and in a broader sense concerning our lives. He thereby attempts to vitalise the philosophical theme that links life and art. READ MORE
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5. Identical, But Still Different : On Artistic Appropriation in Visual Art
Abstract : In this dissertation about artistic appropriation I acknowledge that something indeed has happened in art. Visual art does not have to look in any special way anymore, or have historically validated content that can be visually grasped. Within this precondition artistic appropriation is situated. READ MORE