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1	Hvad dunst ur din aska : Om 1700-talets lukter i Fredmans epistlar Svenningsson, Susann January 2020 (has links) This study examines how smells were perceived in 18th century Stockholm by analyzing odor references in the poetry collection Fredman’s Epistles (1790) (Sw. Fredmans epistlar) by Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795). Using a specific form of contextualizing, the purpose of the study is to show how the meaning of smells in 18th century Stockholm appears when the smelling objects in the epistles are put in a relevant context. By extension, the investigation will show how the smell sensations in the epistles reveal attitudes towards life, death and certain social and cultural phenomena. I argue that the inhabitants of Stockholm in the 18th century, depending on their social and cultural belonging, shared many of the attitudes towards places, people and phenomena that are reproduced in the epistles. I also argue that 18th century Stockholm was not as dominated by foul smells as has been claimed by previous research. This study sheds new light on how different smells were perceived, described and understood in 18th century Stockholm. sensory history odors smells Fredman's epistles Carl Michael Bellman 18th century Stockholm context lukter 1700-tal Stockholm Fredmans epistlar Carl Michael Bellman sinneshistoria kontext History of Ideas Idé- och lärdomshistoria
2	Alla ska bli konnässörer : Individualisering, gemenskap och svettiga hästar i Levande livet 1983-1984 Soldal, Johannes January 2013 (has links) A part of the Swedish TV-show Levande livet that aired between 1983 and 1984 was devoted to wine. This was the first time a wine tasting was being broadcasted in Sweden. Terms as ”sweaty horse” and ”moulded pile of leaves” – that the wine connoisseurs Carl Jan Granqvist and Knut-Christian Gröntoft used to describe the wines – became objects of both appreciation and ridicule. Their way of talking about wine reminds of Robert Parker’s wine language, which grew of importance from the 1970s and onwards. The purpose of this thesis is to try to write a history of taste. By researching how the TV-show was received by the daily press in Sweden, it is possible to come to terms with what kind of opinions and attitudes a wine tasting challanged. This thesis shows how the viewers, by tasting wine and trying to articulate their taste experiences in the language provided by Granqvist and Gröntoft, became members of a taste community. This taste community was not only being sustained by a shared language for taste experience, it also affected the viewers own taste of the wine. By doing this it is possible to describe in what way everyone was urged to practice their own taste and become a connoisseur.

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Hvad dunst ur din aska : Om 1700-talets lukter i Fredmans epistlar

Alla ska bli konnässörer : Individualisering, gemenskap och svettiga hästar i Levande livet 1983-1984