Search for dissertations about: "symbolism"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 39 swedish dissertations containing the word symbolism.

  2. 11. Poiski Rusi nevidimoj. Kitezskaja legenda v russkoj kul'ture. 1843-1940

    Author : Irina Karlsohn; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Russian literature; the Kitezh legend; myth; Old Believers; N. Rimsky-Korsakov; symbolism; А. Bely; the Petersburg myth; the myth of Holy Russia; N. Kliuev;

    Abstract : This doctoral dissertation examines the legend of the invisible city of Kitezh, its development and the role that it played in Russian culture between the years 1843 and 1940. It was during this period that the original folk legend was discovered by the Russian intelligentsia and transformed into a new myth about Russia. READ MORE

  4. 12. Nakahara Chūya and French symbolism

    Author : Noriko Thunman; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

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  5. 13. Ideology and Symbolism in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy

    Author : Fredrik Svensson; Magnus Ullén; Maria Holmgren Troy; Nicholas Monk; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cormac McCarthy; Pierre Macherey; Marxism; ideology; affordances; symbolism; ecocriticism; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : This study homes in on the ideological significance of American author Cormac McCarthy’s literary symbolism. Focusing in particular on the author’s tendency to merge hu­manity and the environment by way of metaphor, simile, and personifica­tion, the study demonstrates how the ethical and political import of this aesthetic is open to dispute. READ MORE

  6. 14. Dream Experience - Phenomenology meets Cognitive Neuroscience

    Author : Lennart Karlsson; Filosofiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophical logic; dream symbolism; neuroscience; delusional states; visual awareness; lucid dreaming; Phenomenology; dreaming; Teoretisk filosofi; logik;

    Abstract : This treatise examines what I call the ‘traditional view’ on the phenomenology of dreaming. According to this view, dreams are experienced in more or less the same way as waking reality – that is, our experience of “being-in-the-dream” is very much like our experience of “being-in-the-world”. READ MORE

  7. 15. Spiritual transcendence and androgyny within Swedish and Finnish transnational Symbolism

    Author : Birte Bruchmüller; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; turn of the twentieth-century art; Symbolist art; transnational art movement; Swedish historiography; Finnish historiography; spiritual transcendence; androgyny; Magnus Enckell; Olof Sager-Nelson; Ellen Thesleff; Beda Stjernschantz; Tyra Kleen;

    Abstract : This Doctoral thesis is an examination of a group of Swedish and Finnish artists and their role as important and active participants in a transnational Symbolist movement. It deals with the depiction of the spiritually enhanced human body in the work of the Swedish artists Olof Sager-Nelson and Tyra Kleen, and the Finnish artists Magnus Enckell, Ellen Thesleff and Beda Stjernschantz, as one central topic within the European Symbolist art movement. READ MORE