Search for dissertations about: "erotic desire"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words erotic desire.
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1. Erotic Insanity : Sex and psychiatry at Vadstena asylum, Sweden 1849-1878
Abstract : The early nineteenth century saw the emergence of institutional psychiatry across Europe. Aware that Sweden had fallen behind in this development, Parliament decreed in 1823 that a number of specialised institutions for the care of the insane were to be established. The Vadstena asylum, opened in 1826, was the first such institution in Sweden. READ MORE
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2. Erotic Language and Representations of Desire in the Philostratean Erotic Letters
Abstract : This doctoral dissertation focuses on a corpus of seventy-three prose letters from the Imperial period, titled Erotic Letters and attributed to Philostratus. In this letter collection, different anonymous letter writers address male and female recipients who are mostly anonymous. READ MORE
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3. Erôs and Education : Socratic Seduction in Three Platonic Dialogues
Abstract : Plato’s Socrates is famous for claiming that “I know one thing: That I know nothing” (see e.g. Ap. 21d and Meno 81d). READ MORE
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4. Literary Loves : Interpretations of Dioscorides 1-5 and 7 G-P
Abstract : This is a study of six Hellenistic erotic epigrams attributed to the third century BC epigrammatist Dioscorides. The introduction provides a critical discussion of interpretive aims and strategies of scholarly readings of Hellenistic epigrams in general, with a focus on concepts such as intertextuality, historicity, ideology and theory. READ MORE
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5. Her Story in Partonopeu de Blois : Rereading Byzantine Relations
Abstract : This thesis investigates the twelfth-century Old French anonymous romance Partonopeu de Blois in relation to the Greek novel tradition and the Byzantine world. The study focuses on the erotic narrative in the romance and articulations of feminine subjectivity. READ MORE