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This essay explores how an image can be shaped and influenced by several different interests, motives, and schools of thought. The work getting analysed is Till minnet av en älv by Anja Örn. It contains video art, sculptures, and text with a number of different frameworks and references.In the background descriptions made, concepts such as ecofeminism and Anthropocene play a role. The essay also touches upon industrial history and cultural heritage which lifts the interesting question of who's history is being written.It's about how our shared memories are shaped in relationship to the landscape, and who gets represented when these memories are transferred to the next generation.

Denna studie undersöker temat ”hembygden” i Helmer Grundströms tidiga diktning. Metodengrundar sig på en kombination av hermeneutisk tematik och ett biografiskt material, för att på så viskunna sammankoppla författarens liv med hans diktning. Tematiken härleds ur avsnittet kallat”Mallarmés poetiska universum”, ur Jean-Pierre Richards L'univers de Mallarmé, men avviker fråndenna på vissa punkter. Detta grundar sig dels på den biografiska aspekten i min studie, vilket intetäcks in av nämnda text, men också på grund av att jag väljer att endast fokusera på ett enda tema.Helmer Grundströms norrländska bakgrund har i hög grad färgat av sig på de texter som han senareskrev, och dikterna speglar därför till viss del de komplicerade känslor som han hyste införhembygden. Därför förväntas det biografiska materialet förstärka mina påståenden och antaganden.    I uppsatsens analys uppmärksammas olika detaljer i texten, och dessa detaljer diskuteras sedan iförhållande till liknande inslag. Utifrån dessa mindre delar urskiljs olika motiv i diktningen, somtillsammans bildar den tematiska helhetsbilden. En stor del av motivurvalet i Grundströms diktningkretsar också kring hembygden. Huvudmotiven är, enligt min uppfattning, de kontrasterandeaspekterna hemlängtan och behovet av att ge sig av, vilka båda inryms i hembygdens tematiskahelhet. Dessa motiv utvecklas och diskuteras utifrån textexempel, och kompletteras med utsagor omförfattarens samtida livssituation. Även andra motiv urskiljs i diktningen, för att sedan knytas an tilltemats två redan nämnda huvudaspekter. Sammanfattningsvis kommenteras temat sedan i sinhelhet. Det utgör således huvudmålet i min studie: att se det stora genom de små detaljerna, vilketRichard också förespråkar.

This master’s thesis discusses who Nora Helmer could be today in different parts of the world. With an idea for an modern adaptation of A doll house (with three Noras from different cultural perspectives) as a starting point the purpose is to research the following questions: Who Nora could be today, how Nora could be portrayed through different cultural perspectives, what similarities and differences there are, if anything in the play has to be changed to relate to a contemporary context and what the essence of Nora is. These questions are being explored through in-depth interviews with five different female actors in different continents: North America, Asia, Oceania, Africa and Europe. The actors thoughts are presented through different themes: Who Nora is, motherhood and marriage, Nora’s favourite color, the ideal woman and who Nora could be in their context today. The last part discusses the different versions of Nora, how a classical play can open up for conversations about current gender equality issues and how this material can be used in the continued work towards a stage production.

This master thesis explores the image of Japan in the artistic creations during Japonism in Sweden. Japan and Sweden first started trading in 1868 and knowledge about Japan in Sweden were limited at best. With the emergence of the Western art movement known as Japonism, ranging from 1858 to 1914, fascination for the unknown country grew in Europe. As the art movement Japonism became the first era of interest of Japan in Sweden, the portrayal and subsequent image of the country that emerged during this time is of interest to examine, as to better understand how Japan was imagined by Sweden. Herein, this study aims to analyse the portrayal of Japan in artworks from Swedish artists during Japonism in order to examine what components and ideas composed the image of Japan conveyed during Japonism. A collection of visual artworks depicting Japanese elements, based on Japonism associated artists and creators, have been collected using digital archives and databases to assess what is depicted and how by the creators. Japanese elements, such as objects, clothes, people and landscapes were subsequently analysed using a visual analysis based on researcher Jules David Prown’s three-step method of analysing historical objects. Using the concept of the image, as defined by scholar Torsten Burgman, as the basis of the analysis the depictions of Japanese elements are examined and categorised into several larger and smaller components. The examination is conducted within a framework of ethnocentrism and orientalism to contextualise the image of Japan with the thought structures in 19th century Sweden, as the creators portrayed Japan from both a Swedish and Western Eurocentric colonial perspective. As the source material is artistic depictions, an additional aesthetic framework was applied to contextualise the image of Japan with its artistic medium. Four major image components were found in the material: Japan presented as a commodity; Japanese things as something feminine; Japan as something faraway and exotic, contrasting the West; and Japan as a reference or commentary on the ongoing Japonism movement. The image of Japan found in these depictions of Swedish Japonism was a Eurocentric and ethnocentric understanding of the country. Japan and Japanese things, were imagined as something exotic and beautiful, and usually conveyed as exotic commercial flair for Western women.