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11	The Danse Macabre in Richard Daye’s A Booke Of Christian Prayers (1581): Prescriptive Instruction To Promptly Prepare For Death Chura, Amanda Jane 03 August 2011 (has links) This research focused on Richard Daye's 1581 publication of A Booke of Christian Prayers, an overtly Protestant document. Specifically, this study looked at how images were used as an educational tool in prescriptive literature. The illustrations in the danse macabre of A Booke of Christian Prayers reflected and reinforced changes to the English religious culture surrounding death and the dead. Printers utilized such images of death to teach viewers about how good Christians should live. The danse macabre instructed sixteenth-century people on the importance immediate and sustained preparation in order to have a good Protestant death. A numerical analysis of the social standing, age, and gender of the danse macabre figures revealed that Daye printed A Booke of Christian Prayers for men who occupied professional and middling positions. Such imagery instructed Christians to quickly incorporate these changes into daily practice because Death could appear at anytime to anyone. / Dr. Lynn A. Botelho Dr. Steven Schroeder Dr. Irene Kabala Death England Reformation
12	Musical Means in Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death: A Singer’s Study Guide Fuh, Jason 29 August 2017 (has links) No description available. Music Performing Arts Slavic Literature Mussorgsky Songs and Dances of Death danse macabre Golenishchev-Kutuzov Russian IPA
13	The phenomenon of the grotesque in modern southern fiction : some aspects of its form and function Haar, Maria January 1983 (has links) After a general historical outline of the term and concept 'grotesque' attention is focused on the grotesque in Southern fiction and an attempt is made to explain the abundance of this mode in the literature of the South. It can seemingly be linked to the distinctiveness of that region as compared to the rest of the United States—a distinctiveness that has been brought about by historical, geographical, sociological and economic factors.Basing the discussion on the theory of Philip Thomson, who defines the grotesque as "the unresolved clash between incompatibles in work and response," various critical approaches to the Southern grotesque are examined, all of which are found to be too all-embracing. An effort is then made to analyse the grotesque as displayed particularly in Caldwell, Capote, Faulkner, Goyen, McCullers, O'Connor and Welty. The study deals first with the macabre-grotesque, then the repulsive/frighten-ing-grotesque and finally the comic-grotesque. The last chapter is devoted to more recent authors writing in the 1960s. Their works reveal that the South is still a breeding ground for the grotesque. / digitalisering@umu Caldwell Capote Faulkner Goyen McCullers O'Connor Welty macabre-grotesque repulsive/frightening-grotesque comic-grotesque Philip Thomson Det groteska i litteraturen
14	Death and commemoration in late medieval Wales Hale, David January 2018 (has links) This study examines the attitudes to, and commemoration of, death in Wales in the period between the end of the thirteenth century and the middle of the sixteenth century by analysis of the poetical work produced during this period. In so doing, this is placed in the wider context of death and commemoration in Europe. Although there are a number of memorial tombs and some evidence of religious visual art in Wales which has survived from the late medieval period, in comparison with that to be found in many other European countries, this is often neither so commonplace nor so imposing. However, the poetry produced during this period very much reflects the visual material that was produced in other parts of Europe. The poetry shows that the Welsh gentry at that time were familiar with many of the themes surrounding death and commemoration so obvious in European visual art such as the macabre and the fate of both the body and the soul after death. With war, famine and disease being so commonplace during the Middle Ages, and the late medieval period witnessing the effects of the Black Death, it is, perhaps, little wonder that macabre imagery and concerns about the fate of the soul were so often produced in European visual art of the time. These concerns are reflected in the Welsh poetry of the period with several poets composing quite vivid poetry describing the fate of the body as a decomposing corpse after death or allusions to the personification of Death appearing to claim its victims. The tension that many felt between the role of God on Judgement Day and God as Redeemer is also apparent in a number of the poems composed at this time. This study shows how important the role of the poet was amongst the gentry in Wales during the late medieval period, a role which ensured that the patrons of the poets were immortalised in words rather than by physical memorials. It also highlights the importance of poetical works of the period as an important primary source for historical research. Many of the poems give a contemporaneous account of important events of the period such as symptoms of plague victims which confirm that the Black Death was indeed the bubonic form of the plague.
15	Les représentations de la mort dans la création artistique actuelle : histoire, contextualisation, comparaisons / The representations of death in present artistic creation : history, contextualisation, comparison Heyd, Marie 10 April 2015 (has links) Alors que les individus dans la société contemporaine sont unis non par une propriété mais par un devoir et par une dette, par un manque, par une limite prenant la forme d’une charge pour celui qui en est affecté, la postmodernité rend à la mort et à l’absence toute sa densité. À travers la répétition, entre jubilation et désespérance, les artistes figurent la temporalité de l’épreuve par une écriture qui travaille l’instant. Ils racontent ces évènements infimes qui sont les plus fragiles, les plus précaires, ayant pourtant une forte efficacité. Il s’agira ici d’étudier les nouvelles postures devant l’événement historique, quand l’artiste se tient au plus singulier. / While individuals in contemporary society are united not by property but by a duty and a debt, a lack, by a limit taking the shape of a responsibility for the one who is affected, postmodernism returns to death and absence all its density. Through repetition, between jubilation and despair, the artist represents the temporality of the event. His writing works the moment. He tells these tiny events that are the most fragile, the most precarious, having nevertheless a strong efficiency. This thesis will try to study the new postures in front of the historic event, when the artist stands in the most singular. Crâne Orbite Danse macabre Trauma Étrange Corps liquide Cérémonie Rituel Vanité Fantôme Archive Grotesque Ironie Skull Orbit Dance of death Trauma Strangeness Liquid body Ceremony Ritual Vanity Ghost Archive Grotesque Irony 735.23 735.24
16	Revenants from the Church to literature Livermore, Christian January 2016 (has links) Factual accounts of revenants – the risen dead – seized the medieval imagination in the early eleventh century, and were recorded by serious historians and ecclesiastics as true. They then began to appear in secular imaginative literature and art, growing progressively more elaborate and frightening throughout the Middle Ages whilst retaining many of the religious overtones expressed overtly in the ecclesiastic tales. By the early modern and modern period, the tales were removed from any overt religious context and were told as purely imaginative literature. The academic half of this thesis explores the influence on the tales of the Christian doctrine of resurrection and the cult of the body of Christ and of the saints, then traces the migration of those tales into imaginative literature from the Middle Ages to the present. It identifies key motifs from the medieval chronicles and imaginative literature that continue to appear in modern stories, and explores the extent to which Christian eschatology altered perceptions of the dead and why, in an increasingly secular context, fascination with such tales continued into modern literature, what part fear of death played throughout this period, and how that fear was expressed, first in an ecclesiastical context, then in imaginative literature through horror stories. The creative half of my thesis is a literary fiction novel updating a medieval revenant tale, the Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead, to twenty-first century New England. 820.9
17	Vývoj etiky umírání s příklady dobových uměleckých děl a s důrazem na křesťanský pohled. / History of ethics of dying with artworks examples accented on Christian perspectives. Stuchlá, Vladimíra January 2018 (has links) The development of ethics with samples of period fine art pieces with the emphasis on Christian view. (Range 14.-16. century). The base of this thesis is a brief description of eschatology, developing in the frame of Christian ethics in the midstream of the pestilence's apocalypse of the late Middle Ages. The main part of the thesis is focused on changes in individual as well as social perception of death during the very demanding era of extreme wave of pestilence's epidemic in late Middle Ages even early modern history. The changes in approach and coping with the attribute of death are being observed. The aim of the thesis, on the basis of literary studies, is to gather and analyze the changes in interpretation of death during the mentioned period, evaluate their influence of people's behavior by verification or denial of given hypothesis. The accessible materials are supplemented by previews of period fine art pieces showing the attitude of people in given era towards the perception of their own death. Key words Ars moriendi, Bible, carpe diem, pestilence, eschatology, flagellant, macabre art, dying memento mori, death, death dances, vanitas.
18	Den dödlige narren : En studie av satir och humor i dödsdansen av Hans Holbein den yngre / The deadly jester : A study of satire and humor in Hans Holbein the younger's dance of death Karadh, Sofie January 2023 (has links) Hans Holbein's Dance of Death has fascinated researchers for centuries, and in the shape of the book Les Simulachres et historiées de la mort, published in 1538, it was going to change the perception of the dance of death theme for a long time ahead. What most researchers point out about Holbein's pictures is its underlying sense of satire or irony – but is typically glossed over as a matter of fact. The aim of this study is to explore what makes satire and humor apparent in Holbein's dance of death. The study mainly focuses on four separate images from Holbein's series, that represent different social standings and professions to compare and study the difference in satire depending on this factor. By using Panofsky's iconographic method, Kemp's reception theory and Bachtin's theory about the carnivalesque and the grotesque, the study shows that Holbein was inspired by the earlier traditions of the Dance of Death theme but made certain new changes that were related to renaissance culture and ideas. These factors in combination with the ideas of the grotesque turned the frightful Death into something more than just a sudden harbinger of death – it was also part of carnival culture and laughter. Dance of death Hans Holbein the younger Satire Satire in art Renaissance Medieval Iconography Carnevalesque Grotesque realism Dödsdans Danse Macabre Hans Holbein den yngre Satir Satir i konst Renässansen Medeltiden Panofsky Kemp Bachtin Ikonografi grotesk realism Art History Konstvetenskap
19	Tintamaresken- en folklig verfremdung! Björnsson, Hillevi January 2014 (has links) I en iterativ process i ett utforskande arbete undersöker jag om tintamaresken kan användas i fler sammanhang än inom den folkliga komiken. Genom litteraturstudium hittar jag en väg från den svenska bondkomiken till fjärmningseffekter i internationella teatertraditioner. Med hjälp av laborationer och kontrollexperiment prövar jag förhållningssättet och gestaltningar tillsammans med tintamaresken. Arbetet leder fram till begrepp och metoder man kan använda för att arbeta med tintamaresken i framförallt episk men också dramatisk teater. tintamaresk Tintamaresque tintamareskteater tintamarre bondkomik commedia dell arte fysisk teater dramapedagogik narren clown bouffon mask kuliss brecht verfremdung lecoq grotesken bachtin kasperteater shakespeare hamlet gestaltning sotie sottie episkteater amatörteater karneval mälhammar oreglia uno myggan ericson maskerad dödsdans dansemacabre danse macabre mumin moomin emond Arts Konst

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