This thesis analyses the literature debate in the overlooked Swedish magazine Samtid och Framtid 1944–1949. The magazine was first published at the end of World War II on the initiative of publisher Johan Hansson. After an interesting start, the terms of the debate in the magazine were changed after a power struggle on the editorial level. Thus, the magazine never became the influential arena for literary discussions that it first had potential of becoming. With its initial focus on how to construct a new post-war world, the debates in the magazine, however, provide an interesting material for an investigation of attempts to renegotiate the position of literature in society. This is conducted through a perspective that focuses on the debaters’ use of metaphors, but also their specific experiences of the past and their expectations on the future. Central oppositions between aesthetic and committed ideals are highlighted, but also between individualism and collectivism. It is also demonstrated that the debates successively turned more concrete, not least focusing on the very influential Swedish literary generation of the 1940s.

A partir do estudo de um caso específico – a performance Porquê Choras?, de Rogério Nazari e Telmo Lanes, ocorrida em 14 de agosto de 1985, em Porto Alegre, e que contou com a participação do grupo de rock Defalla – este trabalho busca narrar uma História (Roqueira) da Arte, apontando momentos no século XX em que o campo das artes visuais foi cruzado com o da cultura popular massiva representada pelo rock. Em paralelo, esta pesquisa também propõe reflexões acerca do fazer da própria história da arte e das maneiras de produção da chamada pós-crítica. / From the study of a specific case – the performance Porquê Choras?, by Rogerio Nazari and Telmo Lanes, which occurred on August 14, 1985, in Porto Alegre, and had the participation of the rock group Defalla – this paper seeks to narrate a Rock My Art Story, pointing moments in the twentieth century that the field of visual arts has crossed with pop culture represented by rock’n’roll. In parallel, this research also proposes reflections on the making of the history of art and on the ways of production of the so called post-criticism.

A partir do estudo de um caso específico – a performance Porquê Choras?, de Rogério Nazari e Telmo Lanes, ocorrida em 14 de agosto de 1985, em Porto Alegre, e que contou com a participação do grupo de rock Defalla – este trabalho busca narrar uma História (Roqueira) da Arte, apontando momentos no século XX em que o campo das artes visuais foi cruzado com o da cultura popular massiva representada pelo rock. Em paralelo, esta pesquisa também propõe reflexões acerca do fazer da própria história da arte e das maneiras de produção da chamada pós-crítica. / From the study of a specific case – the performance Porquê Choras?, by Rogerio Nazari and Telmo Lanes, which occurred on August 14, 1985, in Porto Alegre, and had the participation of the rock group Defalla – this paper seeks to narrate a Rock My Art Story, pointing moments in the twentieth century that the field of visual arts has crossed with pop culture represented by rock’n’roll. In parallel, this research also proposes reflections on the making of the history of art and on the ways of production of the so called post-criticism.

A partir do estudo de um caso específico – a performance Porquê Choras?, de Rogério Nazari e Telmo Lanes, ocorrida em 14 de agosto de 1985, em Porto Alegre, e que contou com a participação do grupo de rock Defalla – este trabalho busca narrar uma História (Roqueira) da Arte, apontando momentos no século XX em que o campo das artes visuais foi cruzado com o da cultura popular massiva representada pelo rock. Em paralelo, esta pesquisa também propõe reflexões acerca do fazer da própria história da arte e das maneiras de produção da chamada pós-crítica. / From the study of a specific case – the performance Porquê Choras?, by Rogerio Nazari and Telmo Lanes, which occurred on August 14, 1985, in Porto Alegre, and had the participation of the rock group Defalla – this paper seeks to narrate a Rock My Art Story, pointing moments in the twentieth century that the field of visual arts has crossed with pop culture represented by rock’n’roll. In parallel, this research also proposes reflections on the making of the history of art and on the ways of production of the so called post-criticism.

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. Though a number of adaptations were made in the early 20th century, none of them adapted Hornung’s original stories to the same extent as the 1975-77 Yorkshire TV-series.  In this study, material such as original scripts, notes, and correspondence from screenwriter Philip Mackie’s personal collection are examined from an adaptation theoretical perspective in relation to Hornung’s books and the finished TV-series. At the same time, a queer reading of the screenplays and of the televised series is made and compared to previous academic queer readings of Hornung’s stories. The adaptation is discussed in context with the time period in which it was produced and with the various factors that have formed it, such as financial restraints and medium related conventions.  The study demonstrates that both aesthetic and queer themes that correspond to those found in Hornung’s stories can be found in the TV-series. It argues that the political climate of the 1970s both restrained how Raffles and Bunny’s relationship was portrayed in the series but also allowed for a more faithful adaptation of Hornung’s stories, including their aesthetic and queer themes, than had previously been possible.