The thought of Friedrich Nietzsche is often taught, but seldom sufficiently understood, and thus what ought to be most challenging to us about Nietzsche – that is, the rationalistic basis of his rejection of liberal democracy – is not squarely confronted. I propose to lay the ground for such a confrontation. / text

Halloween arrived in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century with the surge in immigration from the British Isles — especially Ireland. However, the folk holiday did not gain widespread attention until the late 1870s and 1880s when descriptive pieces containing both accounts of Halloween's long history increasingly appeared in some newspapers and periodicals. Over the next couple decades, these descriptive pieces became more prescriptive, instructing women how to throw a "proper" Halloween party; what food to serve, games to play, and atmosphere to evoke. By the turn of the twentieth century and up through the 1920s, the middle-to-upper class — specifically women — adopted the holiday all across the country and characterized it with parties, decorative displays, and the propagation of literature, imagery, and ephemera. Since Halloween had existed as an ethnic folk tradition in America for several decades, why and how did this particular group of Americans adopt — and adapt — Halloween to meet their needs? Which Halloween traditions did they retain and how did they shape the holiday for their own purposes? Finally, how did this particular celebration of Halloween reflect the interplay of certain values among these celebrants through literature, imagery, and ephemera? This study of Halloween asks what the celebration of holidays and rituals can tell us about the culture in which they are celebrated. By employing a method which gives equal weight to historical context, audience, and imagery, we gain valuable insight about the stratum of American society which made Halloween an American tradition. / Master of Arts / Until the late nineteenth century, Halloween in the United States amounted to barely anything more than a couple informational inches of column space in October newspapers. By the 1920s, however, full-page advice pieces for Halloween parties and advertisements for themed costumes, decorations, and food were not only in newspapers, but magazines and catalogs as well. Overwhelmingly thanks to white, middle-to-upper-class women, Halloween had transformed from a foreign, ethnic folk holiday of Ireland and the British Isles to an annual, widespread American tradition. These people embraced Halloween as an occasion to both celebrate the imagined simplicity of a shared ancestral past and take advantage of the modern industrial and commercial boom that would fuel the mass production of Halloween-themed goods and novelties. This thesis examines newspapers, magazines, postcards, and a line of holiday catalogs to show how the text and imagery of Halloween products successfully integrated conflicting values and secured the holiday a place in the American seasonal canon.

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Allant d’une autobiographie où la fictionnalisation du vécu confine à l’invraisemblable, à des biographies imaginaires où des personae de l’auteur construisent librement la figure de leurs « biographiés », Anthony Burgess jongle avec les pactes de vérité et la fabulation-affabulation. Les vertiges cognitifs des métabiographies postmodernes affleurent en filigrane, mais à la mélancolie de l’impossible résurrection textuelle du sujet biographique, les biofictions érudites de Burgess substituent la prolifération d’existences virtuelles, de mythes, fantasmes et simulacres, pour mieux mettre en question les formes institutionnelles du genre, savantes et commerciales. Au cœur de l’entreprise [auto]biofictionnelle de Burgess, se dessine une tension contradictoire entre un désir de restituer ces « vies » dans leur réalité charnelle, individuelle, démythifiée, et l’inclination mytho-poétique du romancier qui leur impose le filtre de sa vision du monde catholique et manichéenne. Le Marlowe, le Shakespeare, le Mozart, le Napoléon, le Keats de Burgess ne sont-il que des spectres romanesques, dont les référents historiques ont été vampirisés par le romancier-biographe ? Les biofictions de Burgess, où se rencontrent, en même temps que plusieurs subjectivités artistiques, divers modes d’appréhension de l’écriture et de la vie [essai critique, chronotope biographique, flux de conscience moderniste, citation intertextuelle], réaffirment le caractère indissociable de la vie, de la création et de l’oeuvre. Sa quête romantique-humaniste qui cherche à restaurer la singularité existentielle de ses prédécesseurs conteste de l’intérieur la textualité thanatographique moderne. / In his autobiography, where his fictionalizing his « real life » borders on the unbelievable, as well as in his fictional biographies, where authorial personae freely create the figures of their biographees, Anthony Burgess juggles his way between authorial truth commitments and blatant invention. The epistemological void revealed by postmodernist metabiographies is not thoroughly absent, but Burgess’s erudite « biofictions » eschew such melancholy brooding on the impossibility to resurrect the biographee, and, instead, celebrate virtual possibilities of existence, myths, fantasies and simulacra – and, doing so, deflate the naïve seriousness of academic or popular versions of the genre. At the core of Burgess’s literary experiments in the [auto]biographical mode lies a contradictory tension between his desire to fully convey the bodily, individual, de-mythified reality of these lives, and the novelist’s mytho-poetical tendency to filter them through the lens of his Catholic and Manichean worldview. Are his Marlowe, Shakespeare, Mozart, Napoleon and Keats but spectral fictional figures, whose historic real selves have been cannibalized by the idiosyncrasy of the novelist-biographer ? Burgess’s « biofictions » are a confluence of several artistic selves, but also of several ways to comprehend the relationship between life and writing [critical essay, biographical chronotope, modernist flow of consciousness, intertextual quotation], thus reasserting the organic connection between life, creation, and the work of art. His romantic-humanist quest for the singular existential selves of his artist predecessors challenges, from within the text, modern thanatographic textuality.

Den här uppsatsen undersöker tre valda huvudspår i Julius Evolas (1898–1974) andliga och filosofiska tankevärld som går att återfinna hos svensk extremhöger idag. De valda huvudspåren handlar om strävan efter en återgång till en andlig världsbild istället för materialism, en naturlig social hierarki istället för en konstgjord baserad på materiella tillgångar – och kvinnor och män i den heliga hierarkiska ordningen. Dessa idéer identifieras inom ramen för undersökningen också i tre av Evolas egna skrifter - Revolt against the modern world, Ride the tiger och Men amongst the ruins. Undersökningen utgår från kritisk diskursanalytisk teori och genomförs i form av en fallstudie på följande samtida svenska högerextrema tankesmedjor och alt-right-medier på internet: ”Motpol.nu”, ”Maskulint.se” och ”Svegot.se”. Där analyseras publicerat material under perioden 2018-01-01 till 2020-04-30, för att ge en bild av de fenomen, särdrag och företeelser som där framträder i en nationell diskurs i olika politiska budskap och som går att härleda till Evolas andliga föreställningsvärld.

La Renaissance de la photographie entre la fin des années 1920 et le début des années 1930 en France était-elle liée au seul cercle des avants-gardes ? Les historiens de la photographie ont longtemps orienté leurs recherches sur le fait que les photographes de la Nouvelle Vision avaient sorti la photographie des errements du pictorialisme et lui avait rendu son autonomie vis-à-vis des arts graphiques, toutefois ils ont négligé une remarque formulée dès 1930 par Carlo Rim selon lequel « les images abstraites de Man Ray et de Tabard, qui annoncèrent une réaction heureuse […] ne fur[ent] qu’une vogue éphémère ». Si la Nouvelle Vision fut considérée comme un nouvel âge d’or, elle fut rapidement éclipsée en France par un retour « à l’image la plus nette du sujet le plus pauvre » généré par la redécouverte des photographes primitifs.C’est à cette part de l’histoire de la photographie que cette étude sur le photographe Emmanuel Sougez (1889-1972) est consacrée. Car si Sougez a été élevé au rang des maîtres de la photographie et célébré jusque dans les années 1950 comme le plus grand photographe français vivant, c’est pour avoir réintroduit l’usage de la chambre photographique de grand format et le tirage par contact. Ce faisant, cette étude fait apparaître une autre face de la Renaissance de la photographie en France à partir d’une figure oubliée, en évoquant le rôle crucial que Sougez a joué entre le Premier Salon indépendant de la photographie en 1928 et le dernier Salon national de la photographie en 1959. Aussi, en soulignant l’apport de ce photographe à l’histoire de son art, cette thèse révèle des aspects inédits de la photographie dans la première moitié du XXe siècle. / Is it possible for the renaissance in the field of photography that took place in France between the 1920’s and early 1930’s to be traced to a single group of avant-garde artists ? Photography historians have traditionally concentrated their research on the fact that the photographs of the New Vision released photography from the mistakes of pictorialism and gave it back its autonomy in terms of graphic arts. However, they neglected a remark made in 1930 by Carlo Rim: “the abstract images of Man Ray and Tabard, which foreshadow a joyful reaction, are nothing but an ephemeral fad.” Though the New Vision can be considered to be photography’s new golden age, in France it was rapidly eclipsed by a return “to the most in focus image of the poorest subject,” generated by the rediscovery of early photographs.It is to this era in the history of photography that this study of the photographer Emmanuel Sougez (1889-1972) is devoted. Sougez’s rise to the ranks of the masters of photography and his celebration until the 1950’s as one of the greatest living French photographers, is largely due to his reintroduction of the use of a large format view camera and contact prints. Thus, this study brings to light another facet of the renaissance of photography in France, within the context of a forgotten figure, by assessing the crucial role that Sougez played between the First Independent Salon of Photography in 1928 and the last National Salon of Photography in 1959. Furthermore, in emphasizing the photographer’s contribution to his art, this thesis reveals previously unseen aspects of photography in the first half of the 20th century.