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Parables for Modernity: The Secularization of Biblical Myth in Modernist Swedish Literature and Film
Parables for Modernity: The Secularization of Biblical Myth in Modernist Swedish Literature and Film
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105647
- ISBN
- 9798270247690
- DDC
- 839.6
- 서명/저자
- Parables for Modernity: The Secularization of Biblical Myth in Modernist Swedish Literature and Film
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 298 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-06, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Brantly, Susan.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약At the end of the twentieth century, a series of longitudinal sociological surveys declared Sweden one of the most secular countries in the world. Despite this irreligious reputation, many of Sweden's most celebrated authors, from Bellman to Lagerkvist, revised and reenacted biblical myths in their novels, poetry, and plays, often to critical and popular acclaim. This peculiar contradiction of a thoroughly secular society, interested in reading biblical adaptations, raises questions about the Bible's complex role in Swedish cultural life, especially given the nation's well-documented ambivalence toward religious practice. This study analyzes Swedish biblical adaptations across four centuries, paying closest attention to the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and concludes that Swedish intellectual elites have long desacralized scripture and used it for secular purposes in their works. These writers frequently challenged the Bible's divine claims while retaining its status as a work of cultural significance. This finding supports the view that Lutheranism in Sweden functions as a "cultural religion"-a source of national identity and cultural memory rather than supernatural belief. Examining adaptations from Sweden's age of empire to the turn of the twentieth-first century, this study traces the origins and development of this refrain of "biblical modernism," which maturated in twentieth-century Swedish literature. These works secularized familiar biblical myths, expatiated marginal biblical figures' biographies, and posed existential questions that challenged religion's claims to absolute truth, while exploring the ideological diversity of the modern age. This study argues that Sweden's secularized "biblical modernism," in literature, visual art, and film, served as a platform for renegotiating national identity in the wake of Sweden's social democratization, theological liberalization, and industrialization. Comparative analysis of twentieth-century Finnish biblical adaptations suggests this secular biblical refrain may be more pronounced in Sweden than in neighboring Nordic countries. The study concludes with suggestions for further comparative research on biblical adaptation in Nordic and European literary traditions.
- 일반주제명
- Scandinavian studies
- 일반주제명
- Literature
- 일반주제명
- Religious history
- 키워드
- Film studies
- 키워드
- Secularization
- 기타저자
- The University of Wisconsin - Madison Scandinavian Studies
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-06A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■500 ▼aSource: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-06, Section: A.
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■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2025.
■520 ▼aAt the end of the twentieth century, a series of longitudinal sociological surveys declared Sweden one of the most secular countries in the world. Despite this irreligious reputation, many of Sweden's most celebrated authors, from Bellman to Lagerkvist, revised and reenacted biblical myths in their novels, poetry, and plays, often to critical and popular acclaim. This peculiar contradiction of a thoroughly secular society, interested in reading biblical adaptations, raises questions about the Bible's complex role in Swedish cultural life, especially given the nation's well-documented ambivalence toward religious practice. This study analyzes Swedish biblical adaptations across four centuries, paying closest attention to the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and concludes that Swedish intellectual elites have long desacralized scripture and used it for secular purposes in their works. These writers frequently challenged the Bible's divine claims while retaining its status as a work of cultural significance. This finding supports the view that Lutheranism in Sweden functions as a "cultural religion"-a source of national identity and cultural memory rather than supernatural belief. Examining adaptations from Sweden's age of empire to the turn of the twentieth-first century, this study traces the origins and development of this refrain of "biblical modernism," which maturated in twentieth-century Swedish literature. These works secularized familiar biblical myths, expatiated marginal biblical figures' biographies, and posed existential questions that challenged religion's claims to absolute truth, while exploring the ideological diversity of the modern age. This study argues that Sweden's secularized "biblical modernism," in literature, visual art, and film, served as a platform for renegotiating national identity in the wake of Sweden's social democratization, theological liberalization, and industrialization. Comparative analysis of twentieth-century Finnish biblical adaptations suggests this secular biblical refrain may be more pronounced in Sweden than in neighboring Nordic countries. The study concludes with suggestions for further comparative research on biblical adaptation in Nordic and European literary traditions.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0262.
■650 4▼aScandinavian studies
■650 4▼aLiterature
■650 4▼aReligious history
■653 ▼aBiblical adaptation
■653 ▼aFilm studies
■653 ▼aNordic literature
■653 ▼aSecularization
■653 ▼aSwedish literature
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■71020▼aThe University of Wisconsin - Madison▼bScandinavian Studies.
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■792 ▼a2025
■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17360983▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.


