Search for dissertations about: "aesthetics in drama"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words aesthetics in drama.

  2. 1. Mis-Movements : The Aesthetics of Gesture in Samuel Beckett's Drama

    Author : Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson; Ishrat Lindblad; Matthew Feldman; Steven Connor; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Beckett; phenomenology; aesthetics; movements; perception; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This study explores Beckett’s use of physical movements in his plays as part of a strategy to escape the limits of semantic meaning and as an instrument of artistic expression. In a sense, the use of physical movements constitutes a phenomenological, heuristic ‘solution’ to the problem of presentation and representation that Beckett explicitly addresses already in the early 1930s. READ MORE

  4. 2. Aesthetics of Resistance : An investigation into the performative politics of contemporary activism – as seen in 5 events in Scandinavia and beyond

    Author : Frans Jacobi; Konsthögskolan i Malmö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Autonomous; Temporary; Active Time; Performance; Resistance; Politics; Aesthetics; Activism; Ungdomshuset; Cop15; Climate Justice; Action; Tahrir Square; Silent Stand; Revolution;

    Abstract : This Ph.D. submission deals with contemporary demonstration culture and political activism, seen as performance through performance. It consists of both a practical and a theoretical part. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Delegitimised Vernacular : Language Politics, Poetics and the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

    Author : Per Sivefors; Thomas Healy; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English-sixteenth-century-literature; Renaissance; Early-modern; Elizabethan-drama; aesthetics; poetics; English-language; language-politics; nationalism; nationhood; legitimation; delegitimation; Marlowe-Christopher; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Engelsk litteratur;

    Abstract : The present study of Marlowe’s plays has as its point of departure the sixteenth-century uncertainty as to what constituted the category of literature. Particularly in England, so acutely aware of this problem were writers and educators that they sought to define and legitimise vernacular literature by integrating it within a rhetoric of language politics, according to which literature in English should serve and promote the English nation. READ MORE

  6. 4. The Hero and the Law : A Study of Silius Italicus' Punica

    Author : Hannah Bartonek Åhman; Gerd Haverling; Marianne Wifstrand Schiebe; Mats Malm; Maria Plaza; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Silius Italicus; Punica; Flavian poetry; Hegel s Aesthetics; epic; drama; hero; Idealtypus; narrative; historiography; Vergil; Latin; Latin;

    Abstract : This study of Silius Italicus’ Punica is executed by means of the analytical tools provided in Hegel’s Aesthetics together with the Weberian concept of the Idealtypus. The Punica and in particular a group of its protagonists are examined in relation to the “Hegelian Idealtypus of epic”, in order to identify the driving forces in the narrative and the pivotal conflict of the poem. READ MORE

  7. 5. Under The Sign of Regret

    Author : Alejandro Cesarco; Konsthögskolan i Malmö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Visual Arts; Regret; Psychoanalysis; Affect Theory; Creativity; Aesthetics;

    Abstract : Under the Sign of Regret focuses on aesthetically mediated responses to regret. It interrogates the qualities of the feeling of regret as well as what is produced under its influence (as objects and as experiences). READ MORE