Search for dissertations about: "Teatervetenskap"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 32 swedish dissertations containing the word Teatervetenskap.

  2. 6. In search of meaning in opera : an opera singer's approach to the dialectics of words, music & myth in opera from Monteverdi to Verdi

    Author : Gunnel Bergström; Richard Bark; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; myth; tension between words and music; hermeneutics; vocal action; teatervetenskap; Theatre Studies;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to show that the opera singer's art is to transmit word and music into vocal action. It is assumed that opera, like all the arts, communicates myth. Of the stage arts opera is unique in that it expresses mythic metaphors through a combination of words and music. READ MORE

  4. 7. The Sensational Body : A Spectatorial Exploration of the Experience of Bodies on Stage in Circus, Burlesque and Freak Show

    Author : Jonas Eklund; Meike Wagner; Camilla Damkjær; Helen Stoddart; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; circus; new circus; contemporary circus; burlesque; neo-burlesque; boylesque; freak show; sideshow; bodies; phenomenology; spectatorship; popular culture; performance analysis; autoethnography; experience; body mind; Theatre Studies; teatervetenskap;

    Abstract : At the end of the 20th century, the three genres circus, burlesque, and freak show were revived after a long period of decline. Seemingly something in the genres still has a strong appeal to the spectators. READ MORE

  5. 8. Playing Activists and Dancing Anarchists : Men and Masculinities in Cultural Performances in Contemporary Sweden

    Author : Dirk Gindt; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; cultural performances; theatrical event; theatricality; gender; men; masculinities; hegemonic masculinity; political demonstrations; prime minister Göran Persson; Sweden; Theatre; Teatervetenskap; Gender studies; Genus;

    Abstract : Playing Activists and Dancing Anarchists is a Ph.D. dissertation that aims to analyse men and masculinities in political demonstrations and similar manifestations by conceptualising and analytically approaching such cultural performances as theatrical events. READ MORE

  6. 9. Rousseau's Idea of Theatre : From Criticism to Practice

    Author : Maria Gullstam; Magnus Tessing Schneider; Roland Lysell; Michael O'Dea; Martin Rueff; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; theatre; the Enlightenment; pharmakon; perfectibility; aesthetics; imitation; the public festival; Pygmalion; Narcisse; ou L’Amant de lui-même; Le Devin du village; Theatre Studies; teatervetenskap;

    Abstract : As a critic of the moral consequences of Parisian theatre while writing plays and music for it, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) had a double relationship to the art form of theatre. This doctoral thesis argues that his seemingly double position towards the theatre is not necessarily contradictory. READ MORE

  7. 10. The room's need of a name : a philosophical study of performance

    Author : Ola Johansson; Doris Kolesch; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Teaterteori; Teaterupplevelse; Rummet i teater; Föreställningsanalys; Språkfilosofi; Publikreaktioner; Riten och teater; 1900-talet; teatervetenskap; Theatre Studies;

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