Sökning: "Edmund Burke"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 uppsatser innehållade orden Edmund Burke.

  1. 1. Tantalizing Terrors and Transcendent Thrills : Unveiling the Sublime Aspects in Three Works by Edgar Allan Poe

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Elin Åhlén; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Edgar Allan Poe; horror; irony; the sublime; aesthetic theory; the uncanny;

    Sammanfattning : This essay explores the sublime aspects in Edgar Allan Poe’s fictional horror, namely "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843), "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) and "The Raven" (1839). The aim is to show that the sublime – an aesthetic experience articulated by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant amongst many – can make the reader oscillate between horror and safety. LÄS MER

  3. 2. DEN GAMLA VÄGEN FÖR EN NY TID : En idéanalys av konservatismen applicerat på segregationens kontemporära problem i Sverige

    Kandidat-uppsats, Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik

    Författare :Carl Wredling; Joel Bäckebo; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Political theory; conservatism; segregation; rationalism; community; historical experience; culture; law and order; freedom; justice;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of the study at hand is to convey a conservative theoretical perspective on the contemporary issues of segregation in Sweden. The aim has been to forth bring answers from a presented definition of conservatism through an idea analysis, which contains the main points of the conservative formation of ideas. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Den barmhärtige samariten och det sublima - En undersökning om varför en altartavla, skapad av Staffan Hallström till Bodums kyrka, refuserades.

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Författare :Margareta Gustafsson; [2019]
    Nyckelord :History of Art; the church of Bodum; altarpiece; The Good Samaritan; Staffan Hallström; modernism; sublime; the Museum of Sketches; rejection; Arts and Architecture;

    Sammanfattning : The Good Samaritan and the sublime – an investigation of why an altarpiece, painted by Staffan Hallström to the church of Bodum, was rejected The following thesis investigates why an altarpiece ordered by the local church border in Bodum, was rejected. The artist, Staffan Hallström was a modernist (expressionist) who worked with abstractions in form and colour. LÄS MER

  5. 4. “När anden svävar högt” : En pedagogisk filosofisk studie om det sublimas innebörd och möjlighetsrum i ett litet barns tillvaro

    Magister-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Pedagogik

    Författare :Kristina Pautkina; [2019]
    Nyckelord :det sublima; sublimitet; förskola; tidig barndom; estetik; Edmund Burke; Immanuel Kant; transformation; transcendens;

    Sammanfattning : The study intends to examine the phenomenon of the sublime in relation to early childhood. The aim is to explicate what meaning the sublime can take in the existence of a little child, the various aspects of the sublime children are able to experience and where the possibilities of such experiences dwell. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Romantic Sensibility : Nature and Human Emotion in An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Carl-Ludwig Davidsson; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Robert Louis Stevenson; An Inland Voyage; Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes; the beautiful; the sublime; the picturesque;

    Sammanfattning : In the latter half of the 19th century, Robert Louis Stevenson set off on two journeys through Belgium and France, two travels that were to become the subject of his early travelogues An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes. In these two travelogues Stevenson elaborates extensively on depictions of nature, and through these depictions, Stevenson suggests that there exists a special relationship between natural beauty and human emotion. LÄS MER