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2021, The Basic Mystery -Thoughts by Tomas Tranströmer (Transtromer). Bilingual text sections: English/Swedish
The aim of this paper is to show the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer's mystic attitude expressed in his own words. It also contains a translation of his short prose piece called The Name. Bilingual text sections: English/Swedish
Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
An introduction and presentation of the theology of Josef Ratzinger
Jan Widströmer: Av inre tvång och kärlek till konsten (Out of inner need and love of art), 2019
This book is about Jan Widströmer (b. 1944), a Swedish visual artist, poet, art critic and college teacher. Its subtitle is "Av inre tvång och kärlek till konsten" (Out of inner need and love for art). In the nine chapters of this book, it is demonstrated how Widströmer’s artistic and literary production reflects different cultural, religious and aesthetic influences. To a certain extent, his development as a visual artist seems to be the result of a systematic exploration and variation of a limited number of compositional principles. In the analysis of Widströmer’s visual artworks in chapters 5–8 it is assumed that his main production can be divided into four parts or groups (one for each chapter) which are defined by different principles. These four groups are not to be understood as chronological “periods” but rather as sets of patterns and ideas that are constantly recombined and reinterpreted. A separate analysis in chapters 3–4 of Widströmer's activity as an art critic further aims to clarify his aesthetic and ideological views. Widströmer’s art criticism reveals both an openness towards different art forms and alternatives, and a pronounced scepticism regarding the intellectual claims and pretensions of Post-Modernism in the 1980’s. The short chapter 4 of the book, entitled "Att mäta konstkritikens anatomi" (To measure the anatomy of art criticism), presents a method for quantitative text studies. It has been applied to the corpus of Widströmer’s art criticism. The method is based on counting the instances of adjectives and adverbs in all texts and dividing them according to a taxonomy. In the taxonomy, one category comprises words that imply unambiguous value judgments. Other categories have a more descriptive function; for example naming material features, describing emotional response and showing specialized cultural knowledge. To a certain extent, it is possible to automate the measurements with the aid of available applications for text analysis in the Digital Humanities. These chapters about Widströmer’s art criticism are parts of the research project "Konstkritiken och det nationella" (Art Criticism and the National”) at Åbo Akademi University. Widströmer’s literary production as a poet is the topic of chapter 9, which is written by the literary historian Niklas Schiöler. Schiöler especially stresses the importance of nature and of sensory perception as a source for motives and images in Widströmer’s poetry. Historically and stylistically, he situates Widströmer quite firmly in a Modernist, Swedish tradition. Furthermore, Schiöler describes Widströmer as a typical observer and probably a typical “painter” in his poetry. In a manner similar to the works of Gunnar Ekelöf and other poets influenced by symbolism and surrealism, there are also in Widströmer’s poetry elements characteristic of a secular mysticism. As summarized in the "Slutord" (Final words) at the end of the book, a common feature in Widströmer’s production as both a visual artist and a poet is probably a phenomenological attitude to the world and its events; it is not a question of exposing facts, but of registering how experiences and sense impressions affect one’s state of consciousness. The illustrations of this book reproduce nearly 200 visual artworks by Widströmer. Of these, 182 works are included in the list of figures, with information about technique, format and date. The list of written sources include a full catalogue of Widströmer’s reviews and articles on art.
Temenos - Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion
This article sets out to trace possible influences of Emanuel Swedenborg, the Swedish theosophist and spirit-seer, in the production of the Finnish national poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg. We argue that the influence of Swedenborgianism on nineteenth-century culture in Finland was greater than has generally been suggested by literary scholars. The first part of the article provides a historical background of Swedenborgianism in the country. The latter part indicates a larger epistemic and religious accord between Swedenborg and Runeberg, to be accounted for in greater detail in terms of influence. Both authors subscribed to an emblematic worldview within the Classical discourse of nature as a book, ultimately supported by a framework of logocentrism and theism. Runeberg’s discussion of words and things,and his use of the metaphor of light, places him within a mainstream nineteenth-century spirituality, which may be juxtaposed, in addition to general Romantic views, also with Swedenborgi...
Interlitteraria, 2011
2018
In his work Du Går De Ord, Finland-Swedish modernist poet Gun- nar Björling utilizes a particular type of poetics that are unique to the modern period. Despite the harsh breaks from grammatical and syn- tactic convention within this work, the poetry still carries and conveys meaning. As such, an understanding of Björling’s poetry elucidates the relationship that exists between language and meaning, ultimately pointing to the essential nature of language. The topic of language and its essence is something that the 20th century philosopher and literary critic Walter Benjamin developed extensively within his own body of work. Bringing Benjamin’s theological and mystical understanding of language in conversation with Björling’s poetics allows the reader to penetrate the meanings of the poems and more fully understand how language relates to these meanings. In conclusion, it will be shown that Björling’s poetry has a soteriological quality through its poetics of name.
Aries, 2013
Journal of Continental Philosophy, 2022
Addressing the place of the Austrian poet, Georg Trakl, in the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer, this article turns in particular to Trakl’s poem “A Winter Evening” in order to unfold a sense of language in dialogue with the poet. This engagement equally becomes the occasion for Gadamer to confront Heidegger, whose own reading of Trakl becomes both an inspiration and a challenge.
ЯЗЫКИ ВЛАСТИ: ГОСУДАРСТВО И НАРОД В РОССИИ В НОВОЕ И НОВЕЙШЕЕ ВРЕМЯ Материалы всероссийской с международным участием научной онлайн-конференции 19.05.2023.. Москва, 2024. Московский педагогический государственный университет, 2024
Muchas vidas, muchos maestros, 1988
Continental Philosophy Review, 2024
Being Different: More Neoplatonism after Derrida, 2014
Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2008
2023 IMEKO TC-4 International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Rome, Italy, October 19-21, 2023, 2023
Journal of Clinical Investigation, 1998
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 2015
Transplantation Proceedings, 2008
Journal of Taibah University for Science, 2017