Search for dissertations about: "Renaissance"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 68 swedish dissertations containing the word Renaissance.

  2. 16. The "New Negro" in the Old World: Culture and Performance in James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Nella Larsen

    Author : Lena Ahlin; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Europe in African-American literature; English language and literature; Nella Larsen; Jessie Fauset; James Weldon Johnson; minstrelsy; whiteness; performance; cultural authenticity; New Negro; Harlem Renaissance; African Americans in Europe; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the relationship between the “New Negro” moment of the early twentieth-century America and the Old World of Europe, as represented in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), Jessie Fauset’s There is Confusion (1924), and Nella Larsen’s Quicksand (1928). In the nineteenth century, Europe functioned as a symbol of freedom, education and art in the African-American literary imagination. READ MORE

  4. 17. The Reputation of John Donne 1779-1873

    Author : Raoul Granqvist; Sven-Johan Spånberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Renaissance literature; reception theory; 19th-century British literature; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; English language;

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  5. 18. Singing, Acting, and Interacting in Early Modern English Drama

    Author : Elisabeth Lutteman; Stuart Robertson; Julie Sanders; Robert Appelbaum; Simon Smith; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Early modern drama; Renaissance drama; Shakespeare; Fletcher; Middleton; Jonson; Dekker; Marston; theatre and music; Shakespeare and music; stage songs; theatre songs; self-presentation; disguise; rhetoric; performance; historical phenomenology; song studies; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : The study examines ways in which singing figures as a strategy of action and interaction in early modern English drama. Inquiring into the dramatic role of song in plays performed on London’s public stages between c. 1590 and c. READ MORE

  6. 19. Symbolic expressions in renaissance Florence: The observances of Saint John the Baptist

    Author : MariAnna Jentzen; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ethnografi; socialantropologi; religiösa fester; Italien;

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  7. 20. Levels of unreality : studies in structure and construction in Italian mural painting during the Renaissance

    Author : Sven Sandström; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art; Konstvetenskap;

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