Sökning: "Alfred Tennyson"
Hittade 4 uppsatser innehållade orden Alfred Tennyson.
1. Fängslad skönhet : En ikonografisk/ikonologisk analys av Julia Margaret Camerons fotografi The Rosebud Garden of Girls
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för musik och bild (MB)Sammanfattning : This study aims to analyze the motif of Julia Margaret Cameron’s photograph The Rosebud Garden of Girls from 1868 regarding its literary sources, codes and how the women are depicted. The purpose is to find out whether the photograph romanticize or challenge the Victorian conventions. LÄS MER
2. UR EN KUNGS IDYLL : En ord- och bildstudie av Alfred Tennysons diktsamling, illustrerad av Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikSammanfattning : The 19th century's Victorian England revived interest in medieval traditions and myths, including King Arthur and the knights of the round table. British artist Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale painted a set of watercolor illustrations that were published in an edition of Idylls of the King, A collection of poems about the legend of King Arthur, written by Lord Alfred Tennyson. LÄS MER
3. A Paradise Fading : Perceptions of Wild Nature in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Howard Pyle's Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : This thesis explores representations of wild nature in two Arthurian texts – one British and one American – produced in an age characterised by rapid social transformation: Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King (1859-1885) and Howard Pyle’s Story of King Arthur and His Knights (1903). By investigation of the textual descriptions of wilderness and the portrayals of characters living there, the study aims to investigate what attitudes towards unkempt nature are displayed in the two texts. LÄS MER
4. From the Italian Shore : Tracing the Petrarchan Tradition in Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam
Master-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkulturSammanfattning : This essay is focused on Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam, interpreting the poem against the background of a Petrarchan tradition. In this text I show how Tennyson’s work exhibits several parallels to the traditional elements of Petrarchism, both in terms of the themes it explores and of itsmore formal aspects. LÄS MER