Search for dissertations about: "Parisian salons"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Parisian salons.

2. 1. An Inquiry into Cultural Semiotics: Germaine de Staël's Autobiographical Travel Accounts

   Author : Anna Cabak Rédei; Kognitiv semiotik; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Phenomenological sociology; Fenomenologi; Contemporary history circa 1800 to 1914 ; Phenomenology; Humanities; Parisian salons; Humaniora; Fransk litteratur; Germaine de Staël; Cultural semiotics; Autobiographical travel accounts; French literature; Modern historia ca. 1800-1914 ;

   Abstract : Cultural semiotics studies encounters between cultures. Notions such as Culture, Extra-culture and Non-culture were developed in the 1970s by the Tartu school and were used in their studies of Russian culture and its relation to Western Europe, with special focus on Peter the Great's attempt to Westernize Russia in the eighteenth century. READ MORE

4. 2. Spiritual transcendence and androgyny within Swedish and Finnish transnational Symbolism

   Author : Birte Bruchmüller; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; turn of the twentieth-century art; Symbolist art; transnational art movement; Swedish historiography; Finnish historiography; spiritual transcendence; androgyny; Magnus Enckell; Olof Sager-Nelson; Ellen Thesleff; Beda Stjernschantz; Tyra Kleen;

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE