Sökning: "aestheticism"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 uppsatser innehållade ordet aestheticism.
1. "For the pleasure of your company" : En adaptionsstudie av TV-serien Raffles
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)Sammanfattning : This thesis examines how the aesthetic and queer themes in E. W. Hornung’s Raffles stories have been transmediated in the TV-series Raffles. Hornung’s Raffles stories were not only immensely popular in their time, but were also a reflection of the fin-de-siècle and of the cultural role aestheticism played in the late Victorian society. LÄS MER
2. ‘The Fisherman and his Soul’ Revalued : A Significant and Singular Fairy Tale in Oscar Wilde’s Work
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenSammanfattning : The period 1889-1891 has been regarded as crucial in Oscar Wilde’s (1854-1900) career. Having been somewhat unsuccessful as a writer during the 1880s, and turning to journalism to earn a living, Wilde in this period saw the publication of his dialogues which led to his sole novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (hereafter, Dorian), serialised in 1890 before being republished as a novel in 1891. LÄS MER
3. The Happy Prince : A Paradoxical Aesthetic Tale and a Dual Critique of Victorian Times
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för lärarutbildningSammanfattning : This essay highlights The Happy Prince’s advantageous use of conventions of the fairy tale genre to stress critical issues of the Victorian period: the challenge of the established Christian socio-moral order, the rising of the bourgeois industrial society, and the advent of aestheticism as a response. Using the close reading technique supported by the Victorian socio-historical background, the analysis establishes that the criticism proceeds by double associations. LÄS MER
4. "Jedoch war es zu spät?" Die Chancen der geistigen Erlösung Aschenbachs in Thomas Manns Novelle Der Tod in Venedig
Master-uppsats, Avdelningen för tyskaSammanfattning : The aim of the following study was to illustrate that the death of the protagonist in Thomas Mann’s novel, Death in Venice, was, in the end, not just a corporeal, but rather a spiritual one, and ultimately the result of his failure to explore the potential and true depth of human feeling. The definition of the term decadence as a state "against nature: the revulsion against both physical and human nature, preference for the artificial" (Ritter 1992, 87) served as the main theoretical basis of the study and proved helpful in articulating the protagonist’s tragic flaw, namely, his preference for the shallow image of mere physical beauty. LÄS MER
5. Aesthetic Principles in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
Kandidat-uppsats, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)Sammanfattning : This study problematizes the criticism Oscar Wilde received for his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and aims to explore the aesthetic style he employed when writing the novel. The theoretical approach used in this essay is based on the perspectives of New Historicism; Wilde’s life and how people reasoned during his lifetime are brought into focus and different influences on his work are examined, especially evidence of biographical aspects as well as aesthetic elements in the novel. LÄS MER
