Search for dissertations about: "THE SYMBOLISM"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 37 swedish dissertations containing the words THE SYMBOLISM.

  2. 1. Origins of Kingship Traditions and Symbolism in the Great Lakes Region of Africa

    Author : Birgitta Farelius; Tord Fornberg; Arvi Hurskainen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; interlacustrine; “the religious vision of the world”; the Creator; the first owners of the soil; the white cow; the hammer of smith ; Bigo bya Mugenyi; social stratification; the Bacwezi; the Babiito ideology of statecraft; the Bunyoro centre of creation; History of religion; Religionshistoria;

    Abstract : Considering myth as the bearer of important symbolism with potentials to reveal history, this dissertation undertakes a historical interpretation of kingship traditions and/or myths in the Great Lakes region. While the historical sources describe the cultures of the peoples of the interlacustrine region, this study goes a step further to develop analytic categories using symbolism to interpret and explain the socio-political developments, which previously have been mystified and hence crystallised in theories as the well-known Hamitic theory. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Narcissus Theme from Fin de Siècle to Psychoanalysis : Crisis of the Modern Self

    Author : Niclas Johansson; Torsten Pettersson; Björn Sundberg; Bo Hakon Jørgensen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Narcissus; narcissism; Symbolism; decadence; psychoanalysis; selfhood; subjectivity; modernity; Sigmund Freud; Oscar Wilde; André Gide; Paul Valéry; Leopold Andrian; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This dissertation is an intertextual-thematological investigation of the Narcissus theme at the turn of the century 1900. It focuses primarily on French-, German-, and English-language decadent and Symbolist literature from the 1890s and early 1900s, as well as on early sexology and psychoanalysis. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Half-Vanished Structure : Hawthorne's Allegorical Dialectics

    Author : Magnus Ullén; Brian Harding; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; Nathaniel Hawthorne; American literature; dialectics; history; aesthetics; Christianity; sexuality; the Fortunate Fall; typology; allegory; anagogy; symbolism; chiastic structure; mediation; distance; transcendence; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : Invoking Coleridge’s distinction between allegory and symbol, this dissertation makes the case for allegory and symbolism as two divergent perceptual modes. Allegory, it argues, stresses the necessity of perceiving the ideal through the mediation of negation (death), while symbolism flaunts the notion that the ideal can be immediately perceived in the inef-fable realm of the emotions. READ MORE

  6. 4. The genesis of modernism : Seurat, Gauguin, van Gogh and French symbolism in the 1880's

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

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  7. 5. The Burning Word : History and Myth in Maximilian Voloshin's Neopalimaia Kupina 

    Author : Emma-Lina Löflund; Anna Ljunggren; Julie Hansen; Olga Peters Hasty; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Maximilian Voloshin; Russian Symbolism; poetry; Russian Revolution; neomythological texts; performativity; anthroposophy; Rudolf Steiner; theurgy; life-creation; myth-creation; semiotics; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Abstract : The book Neopalimaia Kupina: stikhi o voine i revoliutsii (The Burning Bush: Poems about War and Revolution) by Maximilian Voloshin (1877–1932) depicts the revolutionary period in Russia. This dissertation analyzes the work’s composition, showing how it was shaped and reshaped in response to the dramatic events of the first two and a half decades of the twentieth century, and how it remains open and mirrors the ongoing development of history. READ MORE