Search for dissertations about: "Huysmans"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word Huysmans.

  2. 1. Selling and lending e-books : Changes in the Swedish literary field

    Author : Birgitta Wallin; Frank Huysmans; Högskolan i Borås; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; E‐books; Swedish book market; e‐book lending; Public libraries; e‐book selling; booksellers; subscription services; aggregators; bookshops; online booksellers; Library and Information Science; Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap;

    Abstract : This study explores the actors distributing e-books in the Swedish book market. The focus was on public libraries and booksellers, which included aggregators, subscription services, online booksellers and physical bookshops. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Dying Dreamer - Architecture of Parallel Realities

    Author : Malin Zimm; KTH; []
    Keywords : Architecture; Against Nature; A Rebours; Artifice; Artificiality; Domestic Interior; Dream; Experience; Fiction; Hypertext; Huysmans; Imagination; Individuality; Interactivity; Interface; Obsession; Obsessive Dreambuilding; Perception; Representation;

    Abstract : The objective of this licentiate thesis is to investigatearchitectural experience and creation in virtual space and itsrepresentational problems. The thesis comprises three articlespublished during the years 2001-2003, and a website,www.arch.kth. READ MORE

  5. 3. INDEBTED BODIES, Debt and Decadence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

    Author : Signe Leth Gammelgaard; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; New Economic Criticism; debt; Balzac; Trollope; Zola; Huysmans; Wilde; Mirbeau; money; nineteenth-century novel; economy and literature; materialism; Marxist literary theory; semiotics; Saussure; the human body in literature.;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates the relationship between linguistic and stylistic innovation in nineteenth-century literature on the one hand and shifts in the dynamics of the economic sign system on the other. It draws on prior work on parallels between language and money and argues specifically that developments in the nineteenth-century novel can be understood in terms of the contemporaneous economic history, and that the two sign systems of language and money display structural similarities in this period. READ MORE

  6. 4. Losing the plot : architecture and narrativity in fin-de siècle media cultures

    Author : Malin Zimm; Katja Grillner; Jennifer Blommer; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Architecture; architecture theory; narrativity; virtuality; virtual reality; spatiality; plot; architectural representation; fiction; plotless; 19th century media culture; Architecture; Arkitektur;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the role of the term plot in mediating relations between architecture and narrativity. Examining organisational strategies in the creation of real and virtual spaces, it identifies literary works by novelists who have resisted, or subverted, plot conventions in fiction (Joris-Karl Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt, Xavier de Maistre and Neal Stephenson), and introduces architectural spaces such as Thomas Edison’s film-studio Black Maria, and the plotless productions of early cinematography, to juxtapose concepts of plot and spatiality in a study of the production and consumption of pre-digital virtual spaces. READ MORE