En ton från himmelen: En studie om Linnea Hofgren och mystikernas modersmål.
(2015) KRMM53 20142Centre for Theology and Religious Studies
- Abstract
- Linnea Hofgren (1868-1921) is an unknown name to most people. She was too marked by
her physical sickness to work, but serving her days as a songwriter and pray-er, she found a
spiritual home in the mystic network Flodbergskretsen, that gathered in Stockholm around
the beginning of the 1900s. This essay aims to bring attention to the story of a bed-bound
Christian with a deep human longing, and in particular to investigate the relationship
between experiences of mystic revelations and language. How does Linnea Hofgren find a
language that makes her experiences available to others, at the same time as it still
conceals them? By approaching this essay's primary source material, Hofgren's
unpublished autobiographies, with a... (More) - Linnea Hofgren (1868-1921) is an unknown name to most people. She was too marked by
her physical sickness to work, but serving her days as a songwriter and pray-er, she found a
spiritual home in the mystic network Flodbergskretsen, that gathered in Stockholm around
the beginning of the 1900s. This essay aims to bring attention to the story of a bed-bound
Christian with a deep human longing, and in particular to investigate the relationship
between experiences of mystic revelations and language. How does Linnea Hofgren find a
language that makes her experiences available to others, at the same time as it still
conceals them? By approaching this essay's primary source material, Hofgren's
unpublished autobiographies, with a hermeneutic method, the review leads to a discussion
remarking on the variations of form, content and use of differing lingustic tools in the text.
Based on the results it is suggested that Linnea Hofgren through a combination of
everyday language typical of the period, a mystic-pietistic vocabulary inherited from
predecessors throughout the centuries, poetic excesses, prayer, Bible references, imagery
and silence finds her way to express her story. (Less)
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- author
- Ekström, Maja LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- Melody from heaven: A study on Linnea Hofgren and the native tongue of the mystics.
- course
- KRMM53 20142
- year
- 2015
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Flodbergskretsen, Linnea Hofgren, kvinnliga självbiografier., Mechthild av Magdeburg, Julian av Norwich, KFUK, mystikt språk, kvietism, Hjalmar Ekström, svenska mystiker, Henrik Schager
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 5150211
- date added to LUP
- 2015-03-09 07:43:24
- date last changed
- 2015-12-14 13:35:57
@misc{5150211, abstract = {{Linnea Hofgren (1868-1921) is an unknown name to most people. She was too marked by her physical sickness to work, but serving her days as a songwriter and pray-er, she found a spiritual home in the mystic network Flodbergskretsen, that gathered in Stockholm around the beginning of the 1900s. This essay aims to bring attention to the story of a bed-bound Christian with a deep human longing, and in particular to investigate the relationship between experiences of mystic revelations and language. How does Linnea Hofgren find a language that makes her experiences available to others, at the same time as it still conceals them? By approaching this essay's primary source material, Hofgren's unpublished autobiographies, with a hermeneutic method, the review leads to a discussion remarking on the variations of form, content and use of differing lingustic tools in the text. Based on the results it is suggested that Linnea Hofgren through a combination of everyday language typical of the period, a mystic-pietistic vocabulary inherited from predecessors throughout the centuries, poetic excesses, prayer, Bible references, imagery and silence finds her way to express her story.}}, author = {{Ekström, Maja}}, language = {{swe}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{En ton från himmelen: En studie om Linnea Hofgren och mystikernas modersmål.}}, year = {{2015}}, }