MÄlet Àr att fÄ en bÀttre kunskap om Jean Prouvé och hans arbete, att förevisa om hans vikt i arkitektur- och designhistorien samt att upplysa om de idéer och ideal som var bakomliggande. En diskussion med nÄgra konkreta exempel förs runt det samarbete han nÀrde med Le Corbusier och Charlotte Perriand. Detta tycks ha varit avgörande i mognaden och utvecklingen av hans stil och produktion. .

This essay examines the poetry of the Swedish writer Ivar Conradson (1885-1968). Itanalyzes his work in the context of the European literary scene of the late 19th century, inparticular symbolism and impressionism. Conradson has been considered a symbolist and amysticist by critics and scholars, who claim that his poetry expresses a strong religious ethos,influenced by biblical rhetoric as regards style.While this study does not refute the common view of Conradson, it argues that his earlyworks differ from his later works, where indeed religious and mystical themes can be found.This difference can thus be seen both on stylistic and thematic levels. Using the structuralistmethod of Roman Jakobson and Jurij Lotman, and a phenomenological analysis based on thephilosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Hannah Arendt, this study examines bothsymbolist and impressionist stylistic devices and themes in Conradson?s literary debutSkyarne (1906).

This essay is a comparative analysis of ideas about how Islamic terrorism is understood in terms of narrative. The narrative being studied is Occidentalism, Orientalism and postcolonial theory; based on these perspectives are possible explanations analyzed of what Islamic terrorism is all about..

VÀgen till Klockrike kan lÀsas som vandringens och vÀgarnas historia i industrialiseringsprocessens skugga. Boken Àr ocksÄ en litterÀr uppgörelse som Harry Martinson gör mot kollegor och motstÄndare i sitt naturengagemang.

Based on Theodor W. Adorno's theories about the relation between society and lyrics, and critical theories about postmodernism, it can be seen in Bob Hansson's lyrics how he tries on the one hand to write in a modernistic tradition but, on the other, is very influenced by postmodernism which results in a conspicuous self-distance and self-contempt..

Denna uppsats fokuserar pÄ King Hus actionestetik och den montagekonstruerade rörelsen, enligt en konkret syftesformulering som lyder: Att öka förstÄelsen för King Hus estetiska val genom att belysa vissa rytmiska rörelsetendenser, sÄsom en konstruktion av filmens montage, och dess relation till tvÄ vitt skilda konstyttringar, med dessa avses Pekingoperan och cinéma pur. Ledande tes genom uppsatsen Àr att Hus visuella stil visserligen Àr starkt prÀglad av ett personligt intresse och en djup förstÄelse för estetiska normer i Pekingoperan, men att han samtidigt genom ett skickligt utnyttjande av cinematiska tekniker skapar en alldeles unik version av kinesisk estetik, som mÄste förstÄs som specifik för filmmediet. Sammantaget Àr förhoppningen att resultatet skall bidra till avmarginaliseringen av Hu som förvaltare till en förment essens av traditionell kinesisk kultur. Metoden bestÄr i en jÀmförande analys av rörligt bildmaterial i tvÄ steg, som illustrativ modell och teoretisk ingÄng till rörelsebegreppet tillÀmpas Heinrich von Kleists marionett och i dess förlÀngning Àven Sergei Eisensteins biomekaniska rakurs.Min analys leder mig till slutsatsen att den rytmiska rörelsen i Hus actionscener har starka likheter med sÄvÀl Pekingoperan som cinéma pur, och jag vill pÄ grundval av detta föreslÄ att Hu snarare bör förstÄs som en nyskapare av kinesisk estetik, dÄ han positionerar sig nÄgonstans mellan traditionalism och modernism genom att skapa en estetisk jÀmvikt mellan teater och film dÀr ingenderas legat gÄr förlorad..

This paper aims to investigate the terms and conditions of a lesbian gaze and a lesbian spectatorship from a feminist and queer theoretical point of view. The empirical material consists of three paintings by the American artist Romaine Brooks (1874-1970).  Brooks was based in Paris in the early 20th century where she was surrounded by a group of intellectual and usually cross-dressing lesbians. The women within this context are the ones depicted in Brooks? paintings and this makes her one of the first artists in modernity to openly portray lesbian and cross-dressing women.

Tage Aurell (1895-1976) var en originell författare som fick ett senkommet erkÀnnande pÄ 1940-talet. Kortromaner han gav ut pÄ 1930-talet gick inte hem vare sig hos kritiker eller lÀsare. Varför?Min uppsats syftar till attklarlÀgga vad det var som gjorde Aurell sÄ egenartad. Det sker genom en noggrann lÀsning och undersökningav hansroman Martina frÄn 1937.

Ett examensarbete i Arkitektur om tvÄ experimentella villor, konst, design, modernism och framtidstro. Allt samlat i en tidning. (svenska / engelska)Villorna Àr belÀgna pÄ en skogstomt i Horndal, i södra Dalarna samt pÄ en havstomt utanför Trelleborg vid Gislövs LÀge..

AbstractTitle:?It?s time to break the rules?, Female writing in a post revolutionary Egypt Year: 2013Author: Teresa Egfors GergesKeywords: the modern Arabic short story, Egyptian female writers, the Egyptian revolution, romanticism, realism, modernism, Modern Standard Arabic, Cairo Arabic.The purpose of this essay is to analyze four stories, written by Egyptian women and published after the Egyptian revolution, namely; A?wal mimm? yanbagh? and Qi??a shatwiyya by Hanan Elbadawi and Bint r?gil and Sam?ra ?-?ar?b?sh? by Shaimaa Elmaria. The stories of the essay are analyzed by the questions:? What are the themes? ? What kind of language and style is it? ? What are the messages?The essay is based on a comparing analyze, the stories are especially analyzed by Sabry Hafez? theories about the modern Arabic short story. Interviews with the two writers have been made.

This thesis scrutinises the material on post World War II Swedish architecture produced by the Swedish Public diplomacy organisation "Svenska institutet" ("The Swedish Institute") during the period of 1945 through 1976. The outset is the dilemma encountered by every such organisation: how can the projected narrative of the own nation relate to as many countries as possible, without becoming too general? And how can the organisation address specific countries, without excluding others?By employing a two-sided model of interpreting the material, where it on the one hand is interpreted from the universal properties projected on the narrated architecture, and on the other hand from the particular ideological notions related to the same, the thesis suggests that the Swedish Institute continously relates the architecture to a West-European and American context by consistently connecting its universal properties to particular ideological notions orientated towards the West.The results underline the malleability in regard to ideological notions connected to modernist architecture. Earlier research in the Swedish context has focussed on how modernist architecture in Sweden, under the local tag "funktionalism", was established in regard to a Swedish audience as a particular Swedish architecture by relating it to a alleged continuos Swedish tradition, as well as to notions of a a progressive welfare state. By studying a similar material, though aimed towards a foreign audience, the thesis suggests that these allegations constitue an elucidatory example of how national and ideological narratives can form within the framework of technological-ideological dynamics of modernist architecture.

Tage Aurell (1895-1976) var en originell författare som fick ett senkommet erkÀnnande pÄ 1940-talet. Kortromaner han gav ut pÄ 1930-talet gick inte hem vare sig hos kritiker eller lÀsare. Varför? Min uppsats syftar till attklarlÀgga vad det var som gjorde Aurell sÄ egenartad. Det sker genom en noggrann lÀsning och undersökningav hansroman Martina frÄn 1937.Det sker ocksÄ genom att berÀttelsen analyseras med hjÀlp av begrepp som litteraturforskarna Wayne CBooth, Seymor Chatman och Gerald Prince lanserat och diskuterat.

This bachelor thesis engages in the question of silence in the writings of Fenno-Swedish modernists Mirjam Tuominen and Gunnar Björling, silence being understood as both a poetic theme and a question of literary form. Alongside this exposition runs a discussion about the possibilities and impossibilities of interpretation in the field of academic literary studies. This query is connected to the different ideological positions of the two writers, conjoined by ideas about anti-comprehensibility. Considering certain weaknesses of classical hermeneutics as well as the theory of deconstruction, especially in the case of reading poetry, this thesis tries to point out possible routs for a practice of a more dynamic interpretation, with special regard to understanding the trope of silence in the modernist poetry of Tuominen and Björling.The composition explicitly applies a ?method of wandering? inspired by Maurice Blanchot?s understanding of the priests of Dionysus in Hölderlin?s writings ? maundering in the holy night ? as a metaphor for a critique-in-the-creating.

This thesis is a study of the history of cultural events in Norrköping from the Agriculturemeetings in 1897until today?s sailfestival, Sail Norrköping. The purpose is to see how the events have effected Norrköping as an eventcity, but also to examine the purpose with a cultureevent. The essay also discusses modernisation?s impact on society.

Like several of her female peers, Marie Under (1883 - 1980) has been denied the international acclaim she deserves. The earliest text on Marie Under in swedish told of her greatness, but in classical fallic maner reduced her poetic production by marking it with pathological symtoms. Though latter texts by author Enel Melberg have put a feminist perspective on Unders work, the theoretical complexity of her poetic images and language, and its polemic relation to contemporary literary currents, has yet to be recognised. This study will seek to portrait Marie Under and her poetry in this new light.The study moves from an installation of Marie Under in the modern discourse she so far has been estranged from, to an analysis of her earlier works (in the 1910?s and 1920?s).