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- Berglund, Karl, FD, 1983-, et al.
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Apples and Oranges? Large-Scale Thematic Comparisons of Contemporary Swedish Popular and Literary Fiction
- 2019
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Ingår i: Samlaren. - Uppsala : Svenska Litteratursällskapet. - 0348-6133 .- 2002-3871. ; 140, s. 228-260
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Karl Berglund, Department of Literature, Uppsala UniversityMats Dahllöf, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala UniversityJerry Määttä, Department of Literature, Uppsala UniversityApples and Oranges? Large-Scale Thematic Comparisons of Contemporary Swedish Popular and Literary FictionThe aim of this article is to compare thematic trends in contemporary Swedish bestselling and literary fiction with the help of a computational method—topic modelling—which extracts content themes based on statistical patterns of word usage. This procedure allows us to identify trends and patterns that are not easily discovered through manual reading. We track topics in two subsets of Swedish fiction from the period 2004–2017: 1) prose fiction on the Swedish bestseller charts, and 2) prose fiction shortlisted for the August Prize (arguably the most prestigious Swedish literary prize). The results confirm several assumptions about contemporary popular and literary fiction, such as more plot-focused themes in popular fiction and themes more connected to settings in literary fiction. But the outcomes also provide new, and more surprising knowledge, such as food and economy being the most biased themes among the non-crime fiction bestsellers, whereas themes concerning nature are most biased in the literary realm. Moreover, themes relating to sex, intimacy, and violence are biased towards literary fiction rather than popular fiction. In the light of our findings, we argue that both popular fiction and literary fiction seem to be characterised by certain thematic attributes that make it relevant to discuss them as genres also on a textual-thematic level.
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- Berglund, Karl, FD, 1983-
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Beck – "myterna"
- 2016
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Ingår i: Flamman. - 1403-7424. ; :11/2
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Berglund, Karl, FD, 1983-
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Crime Fiction and the International Publishing Industry
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Ingår i: The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction. - Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press. ; , s. 25-45
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Accessible yet comprehensive, this first systematic account of crime fiction across the globe offers a deep and thoroughly nuanced understanding of the genre's transnational history. Offering a lucid account of the major theoretical issues and comparative perspectives that constitute world crime fiction, this book introduces readers to the international crime fiction publishing industry, the translation and circulation of crime fiction, international crime fiction collections, the role of women in world crime fiction, and regional forms of crime fiction. It also illuminates the past and present of crime fiction in various supranational regions across the world, including East and South Asia, the Arab World, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and Scandinavia, as well as three spheres defined by a shared language, namely the Francophone, Lusophone, and Hispanic worlds. Thoroughly-researched and broad in scope, this book is as valuable for general readers as for undergraduate and postgraduate students of popular fiction and world literature.
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- Berglund, Karl, FD, 1983-
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Czy detektywi zabijają rynek literacki? : Boom szwedzkiej powieści kryminalnej w ujęciu statystycznym
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Ingår i: Ambicje literatury popularnej. - Gdansk : Instytut Skandynawistyki, Universytetu Gdańskiego. - 9788378656074 ; , s. 11-28
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Crime novels from Scandinavia are commercial successes all over the world. In Sweden, the dominance of the crime genre on the book market is even more significant. According to Swedish book trade magazine Svensk Bokhandel, twelve of the top twenty books in the bestseller charts of fiction in 2010, were domestic crime novels. This has started intensive debates, where crime novels are blamed for out-competing other genres. Domestic crime fiction has had a commanding position of the commercial side of Swedish publishing business in the 2000s, but this has not always been the case. When did this literary genre-takeover take place? How did it take place? How can it be explained? Even though some research concerning Scandinavian crime fiction has been carried out over the last couple of years, no one has mapped the book market phenomenon as such. This article aims to fill this gap by offering a neutral and extensive description on the role and position of crime fiction in Swedish publishing between 1977 and 2010.
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- Berglund, Karl, FD, 1983-
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De litterära agenternas växande betydelse
- 2019
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Ingår i: Bokens och läsandets förvandlingar. - Stockholm : Stolpe. - 9789189069008 ; , s. 47-58
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Berglund, Karl, FD, 1983-
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Detectives in the Literary Market : Statistical Perspectives on the Boom in Swedish Crime Fiction
- 2012
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Ingår i: Scandinavica - International Journal of Scandinavian Studies. - London : Academic Press. - 0036-5653. ; 51:2, s. 38-57
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Crime novels from Scandinavia are commercial successes all over the world. In Sweden, the dominance of the crime genre on the book market is even more significant. According to Swedish book trade magazine Svensk Bokhandel, twelve of the top twenty books in the bestseller charts of fiction in 2010, were domestic crime novels. This has started intensive debates, where crime novels are blamed for out-competing other genres. Domestic crime fiction has had a commanding position of the commercial side of Swedish publishing business in the 2000s, but this has not always been the case. When did this literary genre-takeover take place? How did it take place? How can it be explained? Even though some research concerning Scandinavian crime fiction has been carried out over the last couple of years, no one has mapped the book market phenomenon as such. This article aims to fill this gap by offering a neutral and extensive description on the role and position of crime fiction in Swedish publishing between 1977 and 2010.
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