<p>The aim of this thesis is to study the Swedish art field during the 1980s, from the perspective of the artistic production of Lars Nilsson. During this decade he became one of the most well known young artists associated with postmodernism.</p><p>The thesis is divided into three parts, where the first part examines different influences and aspects of the art of Lars Nilsson, as well as the contexts he was a part of. This is performed through a chronological as well as a categorizing presentation, based upon different exhibitions where Nilsson participated during the 1980s.</p><p>In the second part the subject is the Swedish art field, and how Lars Nilsson came to be part of a a new established category of a young generation of artists, mostly born in the 1950s, who were associated with youth, postmodernism and contemporaneousness. This part also puts attention to the importance of Lars Nittve, then art critic and curator, in introducing postmodernism, as well as establishing this new categorization of artists in Sweden.</p><p>The last part of the thesis studies four different group exhibitions, and how they all exemplify how "a younger generation of artists" were to be connected with notions of postmodernism and contemporaneousness through curatorial practice. Lars Nilsson participated at the thirst three of these exhibitions. This is followed with a last group exhibition, where the idea of younger artists as <em>the</em> most contemporary were to be questioned. The thesis ends with a summary and a discussion.</p>

The aim of this thesis is to study the Swedish art field during the 1980s, from the perspective of the artistic production of Lars Nilsson. During this decade he became one of the most well known young artists associated with postmodernism. The thesis is divided into three parts, where the first part examines different influences and aspects of the art of Lars Nilsson, as well as the contexts he was a part of. This is performed through a chronological as well as a categorizing presentation, based upon different exhibitions where Nilsson participated during the 1980s. In the second part the subject is the Swedish art field, and how Lars Nilsson came to be part of a a new established category of a young generation of artists, mostly born in the 1950s, who were associated with youth, postmodernism and contemporaneousness. This part also puts attention to the importance of Lars Nittve, then art critic and curator, in introducing postmodernism, as well as establishing this new categorization of artists in Sweden. The last part of the thesis studies four different group exhibitions, and how they all exemplify how "a younger generation of artists" were to be connected with notions of postmodernism and contemporaneousness through curatorial practice. Lars Nilsson participated at the thirst three of these exhibitions. This is followed with a last group exhibition, where the idea of younger artists as the most contemporary were to be questioned. The thesis ends with a summary and a discussion.

兩岸的女性小說在八０年代呈現出若干相似性，而這裡頭除了主題性傾向之外，主要包括了作品形式；換言之，別於同代的男作家對於後現代、後設小說（台灣）或先鋒尋根小說（中國大陸）的著迷，兩岸的女作家在此時段中基本上都守住了寫實手法，而並沒有像其男性同仁那麼大量的投入實驗性寫作。同時，這一點（兩岸女作家對於寫實手法的偏愛），加上就作品內容而言，與日後的女性文學比較起來，八０年代的女性小說的確表現出較為狹窄的格局，如上兩個因素恐怕逐漸造成此時段的女性文學最近極少成為學者的研究對象。 因此，為了突破既有的研究成果且開闢一些新的研究面向，本論文則除了主題性之外主要從寫實主義觀點切入，將小說形式結構與內容主題相結合進行探析；同時，也注意當時女作家所表現出來的自主性及自覺性，將之視為八○年代兩岸女性文學過去較未受到矚目的重要表現。此外，就「寫實主義」這個觀念而言，本文參考了這一二十年來中、西方學者對於寫實主義的再發現、再詮釋的成果，將寫實主義定義為一種不間斷的「過程」、一個需要不斷加以潤飾修正的文學形式，並且透過這個較為彈性的觀念，選取兩岸代表性的女作家各五位，藉由她們的作品，對兩岸女性文學在八０年代所經歷的從「現實」到「寫實」的過程進行了分析且比較。 首先，如果就台灣女性文學而言，從「現實」到「寫實」描述的是女作家與所處的社會之間的互動，即女作家對於轉型時期女性社會「現實」的高度關懷促使她們在不放棄各自藝術理想之同時有意地選擇「寫實」文學，成為作者與讀者之間主要溝通管道及作家參與、影響社會的工具（甚且社會性愈發強烈的作家／文本，其寫實成分也跟著提高而藝術性相對減少），那麼就對岸的女性文學來講，從「現實」到「寫實」所描寫的則是當時大陸女作家，包括整個新時期文學，從「現實主義」（即社會主義寫實主義）到一般觀念之下的「寫實主義」的轉變過程（把「寫實主義」當作刻意的抉擇要到「新寫實」才出現）──無可諱言，相對於具備了穩固且良好文學個性化與獨特化基礎的台灣（女性）文學，背負了長大幾十年「文學／家為政治服務」的歷史及文化債務之中國新時期（女性）文學，則不得不先經歷一個從「革命／現實主義」到作為創作論而允許作者發揮自己各自的藝術及創作理想的「寫實主義」之演變過程，我們才在論文中被稱為代表了「個人化」寫作路線的王安憶、池莉及方方的小說那裡看到像八○年代台灣女作家類似，大陸的女作家也開始按照自己所設想的創作目的及創作／審美原則（而不是集體化理想衝動所使然）來選取最為恰當的書寫模式及創作技巧。 本論文透過比較視野及文本語境化，分別探討了台、中兩岸女性文學在八○年代所經歷的從「現實」到「寫實」的特定過程，以期勾勒當時女作家的自覺性面向及兩岸女性文學的風貌，並且在彼此對照之下，重新評估八○年代女性寫實小說的價值及其意義。 / During the 1980s, women’s literature from both sides of the Taiwan Strait manifested certain number of similarities, that, apart from the subject matter, include also similarities in structure and form. In other words, in opposition to male writers’ enthusiasm for postmodern fiction and metafiction (Taiwan) or avantguarde and root-seeking literature (Mainland China), both Taiwanese and Chinese women writers favoured realist fiction throughout the whole decade. However, it is my belief, that it is precisely their preference for realist modes of writing (widely criticized since the heyday of poststructuralism) together with the allegedly rather limited scope as far as the subject matter of the 1980s women’s novels is concerned, that gradually caused its inevitable “downfall” – while previously hailed as the “Renaissance period of women’s fiction” in both Taiwan and Mainland China, the 1980s women’s literature from these two regions has in recent years become a topic shunned by both scholars and postgraduate students alike. In order to challenge the existing studies and open up new vistas for future research, this thesis adopts realism as an important point of departure, combining subject matter analysis together with the formal and structural analysis of the texts while also paying close attention to the strong self-consciousness of most of the women authors that should, in view of this author, be reexamined as one of the previously overlooked aspects of the 1980s women’s fiction in both Taiwan and Mainland China. Moreover, following the renewed interest in realist literature within academia during the last ten to twenty years, this thesis adopts a rather “flexible” definition of realism as a continuous “process”, or, in other words, a literary form in a state of flux, that is in a constant need of polishing and amendment. This concept is then applied to a textual analysis of ten representative women authors from both sides of the Taiwan Strait (namely Li Ang, Xiao Sa, Liao Huiying, Su Weizhen, Yuan Qiongqiong; and Shen Rong, Zhang Jie, Wang Anyi, Chi Li, Fang Fang) in a further attempt to describe and evaluate the process from “reality/socialist realism” to “realism” that characterizes Taiwanese and Chinese women’s literature during this particular period.

A década de 1980 ficou conhecida no Brasil como a década perdida. Certamente, os anos 1980 expressaram fortemente o que representou a chamada crise da dívida para os países periféricos, especialmente, os latino-americanos. Os governos da Ditadura militar condicionaram as políticas econômicas para o pagamento da dívida externa. A dívida foi internalizada e estatizada ao longo dos anos 1980, o que deixou o país à beira do colapso, com queda do produto interno, altas taxas de inflação e com o Estado paralisado por conta do endividamento externo e interno. O governo Sarney, apesar de ser o primeiro governo civil após a Ditadura, não foi eleito pelo voto do povo. A transição democrática, feita em comum acordo com os grupos que deixavam o poder, levou à mudança somente na aparência, mas a essência permanecia a mesma. Sarney era presidente do partido (PDS) sucessor da Arena e sustentáculo político civil da Ditadura. Deixou o partido em junho de 1984, portanto, menos de um ano antes de tomar posse como presidente da República, em uma coalização aparentemente de oposição. Assim, essa dissertação busca compreender de que forma as políticas econômicas do governo Sarney também representaram uma continuidade em relação aos governos anteriores, apesar dos sucessivos planos de estabilização, que grande parte da historiografia econômica considerou como não-ortodoxos. / 1980s were recognized as the lost decade. Certainly this period expressed what represented the known debt crisis for underdeveloped countries especially the latin americans. The military government engaged the economical policies to payment of external debt. The debt became public at 1980s and this induced a fall on the internal product, a high inflation rates and had the effect on the State leading to a standstill period caused by the external and internal debts. Sarney was not elected by people vote even he was the first president after military government. The democratic transition period was achieved by pact with the left group power and this fact changed appearance only and not the essence. Sarney was the president of PDS, followed by the Arena witch sustained the military government; he has left this party in June 1984, one year before become president of Republic seeming opposition grouping. This study aim to understand the economical policies of Sarney government is continuing of previous governments although stabilization plans were attempt and that the economical historiography considers as not orthodox.

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Thus, it was possible to reflect on the relationship between cultural identity and language from some rock music at the time given, and thus open a view to articulate the concept of identity and discursive subject from the lyrics of the songs studied. It is a bibliographical research, qualitative, with analytical-descriptive orientation. As theoretical-methodological support adopted for this research were triggered concepts of the French line of discourse analysis, with emphasis on the postulates of Michel Foucault and Michel Pêcheux. The corpus of the survey consists of nine rock lyrics of the decade in question, three of each band / singer: Cazuza: Ideology, Bourgeoisie and Girl from Bauru; Legião Urbana: Chemistry, Eduardo and Monica and Generation Coca-cola; Titans: Food, Fun and State Violence. Therefore this research was divided into four stages: 1) national rock brief history 1980s, highlighting the Brazilian youth culture with an emphasis on production Music; 2) information on the analysis of the French line of discourse, highlighting concepts used in the course of the analysis of the letters, as well as the conditions production of this musical segment in the period; 3) highlight concepts related to identity, particularly in the context of the difference and the Relationship between identity and address; 4) reading of chosen letters, that were related theoretical concepts of discourse analysis with identity, enabling the achievement of objectives. In these letters it verifies that certain subject positions corroborate materialized subjectivities in speech, point to identity constructions within the difference. This research sought to analyze how the rock lyrics in the 1980s "Build" the identity of these young fellows. / O presente estudo propõe uma leitura de letras de música do rock brasileiro da década de 1980, a fim de apontar a construção de identidade jovem por meio dos discursos construídos nas letras selecionadas para esta pesquisa. O rock nacional da década supracitada apresenta como característica peculiar o público jovem, já que as bandas musicais que surgem nesta época têm como seus integrantes pessoas jovens. Nesse período, acontece uma liberdade de expressão artística e, consequentemente, uma expansão da indústria fonográfica. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a construção da identidade jovem no discurso das letras de músicas do rock brasileiro dos anos 1980. Assim, foi possível refletir sobre a relação entre identidade cultural e linguagem a partir de algumas músicas do rock, na época dada, e, assim, abrir uma perspectiva para articular o conceito de identidade e sujeito discursivo a partir das letras das músicas estudadas. Trata-se de uma pesquisa bibliográfica, de caráter qualitativo, com orientação analítico-descritiva. Como suporte teórico-metodológico adotado para esta pesquisa, foram acionados conceitos da análise do discurso de linha francesa, com ênfase nos postulados de Michel Foucault e Michel Pêcheux. O corpus da pesquisa é composto por nove letras de músicas do rock da década em questão, sendo três de cada banda/cantor: Cazuza: Ideologia, Burguesia e Garota de Bauru; Legião Urbana: Química, Eduardo e Mônica e Geração Coca-Cola; Titãs: Comida, Diversão e Estado Violência. Assim, esta pesquisa foi dividida em quatro etapas: 1) breve histórico do rock nacional da década de 1980, destacando a cultura jovem brasileira com ênfase na produção musical; 2) elementos sobre a análise do discurso de linha francesa, destacando conceitos utilizados no transcorrer das análises das letras, bem como as condições de produção desse segmento musical no referido período; 3) destaque de conceitos relacionados à identidade, sobretudo no âmbito da diferença, bem como a relação entre identidade e discurso; 4) leitura das letras escolhidas, em que foram relacionados os conceitos teóricos da análise do discurso com os de identidade, possibilitando a concretização dos objetivos propostos. Nessas letras, verifica-se que determinadas posições de sujeito corroboram as subjetividades materializadas no discurso, apontam para construções identitárias no âmbito da diferença. Dessa forma, a pesquisa procurou analisar como as letras de rock dos anos 1980 “constroem” essa identidade do sujeito jovem.

The 1980s is a formative decade in American history. America sought to reestablish itself as a global power and to reassert the dominant ideology of white, patriarchal capitalism. Likewise, media producers in the 1980s sought to reassert the dominance of the white, male, muscled body in filmic representations. The identity politics of the 1980s and the depictions of the white, muscled body once prominent in the 1980s have been the site of conservative nostalgia for a young, male-dominated, cult audience that is a subset of a larger cultural trend known as retro film culture. This thesis provides historical context behind the populist 1980s B-action films from Cannon Group, Inc that celebrate violent masculinity in filmic representations with white, male action heroes. Equally important is the revival of VHS collecting and how this 1980s-inspired subculture reinforces white, patriarchal capitalism through the cult films they valorize and their capitalistic trading practices despite their claims of oppositionality against mainstream taste and Hollywood films. Lastly, this thesis reveals how a new cycle of contemporary films primarily produced outside of Hollywood reasserts and celebrates the dominance of the white, male, muscled body in filmic representations despite a postmodern and hyperconscious exterior. Overall, I argue how these areas of nostalgia are distinct, yet not unrelated, because they reassert white, patriarchal capitalism through the revival of conservative nostalgia for the 1980s.

This thesis is concerned with the depiction of working-class Dublin in Roddy Doyle's first three novels, The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van, known as The Barrytown Trilogy. The first part of the thesis provides a short overview of Doyle's early work in the context of modern Irish fiction with a focus on working-class protagonists and outlines Ireland's and specifically Dublin's cultural and economic background in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The second part is based on a comparative analysis of the three books in which the author celebrates everyday life in Barrytown, a fictitious neighbourhood in the north of Dublin, through the eyes of a typical working-class family. One section is also dedicated to the language of the trilogy used as a means of achieving greater authenticity. KEYWORDS Roddy Doyle, The Barrytown Trilogy, The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van, Irish literature, Dublin, working class, family, 1980s, 1990s

Cette thèse examine l’image de mode éditoriale en contexte(s), au sein de la presse magazine américaine entre les années 1960 et les années 1980, à travers une étude de cas sur les publications mainstream Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar et un nouveau magazine, Interview. On postule que la production photographique de ces trois titres représente à la fois le cœur de leur activité et de ces objets matériels, en raison de leur positionnement, de leurs codes et de leurs objectifs. On étudiera comment, dans ce cœur et à travers ses « grandes » séries éditoriales, se dégage un certain rapport à l’image comme plateforme entre une production collaborative et des réceptions, ainsi qu’une fonction de négociation par rapport au contexte historique. A travers l’étude des conditions de production des images, puis à travers leur analyse, et enfin par l’examen de leurs circulations, on démontrera l’existence d’une norme mainstream manifestant un certain conservatisme. Puis nous nous interrogerons sur les négociations éventuelles avec cette norme, sans cesse contestée, changeante en surface mais tenace.Un examen attentif de l’ensemble des tensions et des compromis au fil des moments de flottement que sont les décennies 1960 à 1980 nous permettra d’aboutir, sur la période étudiée, au constat qu’il existe bien un système articulé autour d’un discours hégémonique très difficile à questionner tant il est puissant et, en fin de compte, fermé. Ainsi, de manière transversale à tout notre travail, il émergera que l’ensemble des images de mode éditoriales est varié, mais lissé par un discours des magazines construit sur le long terme. Pourtant, il offre aussi bien des modèles que des contre-modèles, des contre-discours et des contre-points qui tous se déploient dans un cadre strict et souple, fermement orienté et adaptable, même s’il comporte quelques possibilités de subversion, toujours exercées à la marge. On conclura, en définitive, à la puissance de ce système, normé quoique toujours à l’équilibre entre des tensions contradictoires, structuré autour d’un format très fort, se nourrissant et s’exprimant par l’image de mode qui reste son fleuron. / This doctoral thesis examines fashion editorials through a case study of three American magazines in context, from the 1960s to the 1980s: Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, two mainstream publications, and a new magazine then, Interview. It is postulated that the photographic editorial production of those magazines is central to them – as material objects, and as the core of their activity as well, both aspects enabling and unfolding their positions, their codes and their purposes. By looking at major editorial series, I explore how these images stand out as "contact zones" between a highly collaborative production process and their receptions, and how their function is also one of negotiation with regards to its context.A close analysis of the conditions of production, the content and the circulations of these images demonstrates that magazines express undeniable conservatism through the perpetuation of a mainstream norm. However, as this norm constantly changes on the surface, I argue that conditions regularly emerge for it to be negotiated. An attentive study of the tensions and compromises unfolding in the « uncertain moments » that characterize the period running from the 1960s through the 1980s demonstrates the existence of a powerful system. Structured around a coherent and hermetic narrative, it proves indeed hard to challenge. Yet, as this thesis argues, the ensemble of editorial fashion images homogenized by these long-term processes is in fact varied and diverse. If these images construct models, they also offer counter-models, counter-narratives and counter-points. All these possibilities converge into a strict but agile framework, firmly oriented by its producers but adaptable, even though its subversive potential is only realized at the margins.This system—structured around a powerful format—is highly restrictive yet it still performs a constant balancing act between conflicting tensions and goals, fueled by and unfolded in the fashion images at its core.

Material artefacts to be used during sex is today commonly known as “sex toys”. This thesis has aimed to understand the discursive practices preceding this late-modern conceptualization, and what the previous historical conceptualizations testified to in terms of sexual morality and constructions of sexuality. The focus has been on a Swedish expert-led discursive context, spanning from the late seventies to the mid-nineties. Despite a general idea of Swedish sexual progressiveness, the results show that the discourse around these objects were all but welcoming. The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (RFSU) considered the selling of “sexual technical aids” as a difficult topic. Good sexuality was to share an emotional loving connection. Thus, it should not overemphasize sex and the body, which sex aids did by being used for sexual functioning or corporeal sensations. I have shown how a discussion of sex aid-use by men with certain physical disabilities dealt with this problem, by providing a context of enabling sexual activity within a romantic union between the men and their partners. Thus, erective aids were especially in focus. I argue that this shows a somatification of male sexuality, which has previously been discussed as taking place in Sweden after the introduction of pharmaceutical erective pills in the late 1990s. Parallel to this, I show a development of heralding female use of “sex toys” in the early 1990s media. Whereas male masturbation with sexual objects were still ridden with an idea of social inadequacy, women were increasingly championed to consume to masturbate. I argue that the developments of how to conceptualize sex aids in Sweden indicate a larger discursive change regarding sexuality. Not only were men and women increasingly considered as beings with separate sexualities, and thus given separate sex aid-markets to court this – but acceptable sexual expression overall broadened. Good sexuality in the Swedish 1990s had begun to embrace the bodily sensations felt during sex, as well as accept sex itself as an independent aim, and in consequence sex aids – or “sex toys” – as a more acceptable means to this end.

This dissertation studies the critical reception of Hilma af Klint trough three exhibitions: Spiritual in Art – Abstract Painting 1890-1985 (Los Angeles, 1986), Secret Pictures by Hilma af Klint, (Helsinki, 1988) and Hilma af Klint – A Pioneer of Abstraction (Stockholm, 2013), addressing the crucial prominent figures and voices in the discursive field around af Klint. The aim is carried out through the Critical Discourse Analysis by Norman Fairclough, coupled with Pierre Bourdieu's concept of the cultural field and habitus. Judith Butler's theory of gender performance completes the theoretical framework by addressing issues of gender in both af Klint's practice as well as in the analysed critical reviews. The thesis examines how the discourses about af Klint changed during different periods of time in the 1980s and the 2010s. The central hypothesis is that this case study can be used as an example to see how the art field presents women artists as a marginal phenomenon instead of including them in the general art historical canon. But the reception of af Klint cannot be fully understood through the lens of gender; thus, e.g. the closeness to the occult is considered both as a leading mechanism in the artistic practice, creating interest towards af Klint, and as an identity which pushes her to the marginal. The results of this study lead to a better understanding of critical articles' role in the cultural phenomena's narrative creation.