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- Renard, Fredrik, 1987-
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Arbeit am Zufall : Die Formierung des modernen deutschen Romans im 18. Jahrhundert
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The present dissertation deals with the relationship between chance and the form of the German novel during its modernization in the eighteenth century. In novels by Wieland, Moritz and Goethe, ‘chance’ poses a complex of problems that the novels process in the course of their narrations and that in turn also influences how the German novel itself, as a new genre in the late eighteenth century, began to gain definition. The overarching thesis is that neither chance as it appears in the novel nor the novel itself have a fixed form in modernity, but that both arise as part of the same dynamic and evolve in interaction with one another. In this context, the ‘work on chance’ describes the process whereby the novels under consideration seek to define their form by exploring different ways that chance can be given shape in the narrative. The work on chance is thus at the same time an examination of the possibilities of the form of the novel, which the narratives of Wieland, Moritz and Goethe undertake in three different ways. What ultimately unites them is the way that the form of the novel emerges as the protagonist of the story being told, thus making the novel itself the hero of the modern German novel.
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Allusions and Reflections : Greek and Roman Mythology in Renaissance Europe
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- In June 2012, scholars from a number of disciplines and countries gathered in Stockholm to discuss the representation of ancient mythology in Renaissance Europe. This symposium was an opportunity for the participants to cross disciplinary borders and to problematize a well-researched field. The aim was to move beyond a view of mythology as mere propaganda in order to promote an understanding of ancient tales and fables as contemporary means to explain and comprehend the Early Modern world.With the Renaissance, pagan religion ceased to pose a threat to Christianity and its mythologies found a way to coexist with Christian doctrine. Old Greek and Roman tales came to play a crucial role in Renaissance culture, partly because the ancient sources, both literary and artistic, many of them recently uncovered, provided rich material for the writers and artists of the period. Mythology provided a network of allusions and references for contemporary poetry and art, reinforcing the possibilities of allegorical interpretation. Furthermore, it offered moral guidance since deities could easily be materialized into personifications of vices and virtues. All artistic expressions, visual and textual, whether they belonged to a secular or a religious tradition, made use of mythology. This volume exemplifies how Renaissance writers’ and artists’ acquaintance with mythological accounts from Homer to Apuleius was of utmost importance for their creative work, as it was for their readers and those contemporary patrons of art who saw themselves as the living embodiment of some remote ancient deity. By posing new questions and suggesting alternative answers to old ones, the contributors to this volume provide a better and more detailed understanding of the struggles and strategies of recycling, recuperating and transforming ancient mythology during the Renaissance. All chapters here have a common focus on the re-configuration of classical myths in Early Modern Europe, in political, erotic and ceremonial contexts. By returning to the classical world of cosmic strife and harmony, of gods and metamorphoses, Renaissance poets and artists were able to express their aesthetic ideals, personal preoccupations and moral attitudes. Ancient mythology offered them a full set of useful metaphors, which could take on new meanings in a new cultural context.
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- Becker, Christine, 1979-
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Kulturbezogenes Lernen in asynchroner computervermittelter Kommunikation : Eine empirische Untersuchung von Online-Diskussionen im universitären Landeskundeunterricht
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The omnipresence of digital media in all parts of our daily life raises the question of how it can contribute to language learning. This research project focuses on the potential of asynchronous computer-mediated communication for cultural learning in the context of language learning. The study was conducted in the seminar on Landeskunde at Stockholm University which integrates language learning and content learning about the ‘culture’ of German-speaking countries. The concept of cultural learning that underlies this seminar rests upon a knowledge-based concept of culture: Language learners are supposed to acquire parts of the explicit and implicit knowledge that is shared by the speakers of the target language. In the context of language learning, asynchronous computer-mediated communication is mainly used for two reasons. First, it allows learners to reflect to a greater extent on the content and the language of their written contributions (in comparison to face-to-face-discussions). Second, it facilitates interaction between the learners which can result in the co-construction of knowledge. As there are no studies on cultural learning in asynchronous computer-mediated communication, this qualitative research is exploratory. The data consists of the written contributions in a discussion forum. Furthermore, students who participated in the discussions were interviewed about their experiences during the course. By describing features of the online-discussions (e.g. length of the written contributions) and factors that influence the activity of the students (e.g. task, teacher role, teaching context), the first part of the analysis constitutes the background for the second part of the analysis and shows that computer-mediated communication is a meaningful tool for content and language integrated learning because it supports language and content leaning. Different modes of task processing are identified in the second part of the analysis: Summary of facts, Reflection about terms and interpretations, Present-day relevance, Change of perspective and Narrative practices. Those modes are analysed with regard to their potential for cultural learning in asynchronous computer-mediated communication. The analysis shows that all modes have a potential for cultural learning but only contributions which contain Reflection about terms and interpretations and those which identify the Present-day relevance of historical events lead to interaction between the students. In summary, this study identifies factors that influence students’ actions in an asynchronous online discussion forum and the potential of their practices for cultural learning.
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- Christensen, Henrik, 1984-
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We Call upon the Author : Contemporary Biofiction and Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis studies fictional representations of Fyodor Dostoevsky in contemporary biofiction. The aim of the study is to present an intermedial theoretical framework for biofiction, a genre defined as fictional biographical and often metafictional narratives in which a biographical subject serves as the focal point for the story or plays a role integral to the narrative. Drawing on contributions from prior studies within different areas—biopics, the biographical novel, intermediality, transmedial narratology—the thesis identifies the most salient tenets of an increasingly important and ubiquitous genre—its fictional, intermedial, and metafictional properties—to suggest a medium-spanning definition. From this intermedial definition of the genre, it is suggested that biofiction studies should move beyond medium-specific analysis. By situating the genre firmly within the realm of fiction, the thesis underlines the fact that it is exactly the fictional element that allows the genre to open up important ways to engage with a certain biographical subject. Overall, the biofiction definition presented in the thesis is inspired by Jacques Derrida’s différance.Arguing that contemporary biofiction arose from the larger aporetic shift in theory and fiction in the 1960s, which was directed toward various presuppositions undergirding epistemological, metaphysical, and ontological projects, it is contended that biofiction fictionalizes subjects to engage with and reassess the assumptions that suffuse our understanding of the subject. From their metafictional perspective, biofictions also employ subjects for various purposes to interrogate contemporary issues. Biofictions are thus turned toward both a historical moment and its own contemporary context. Buttressed by the intermedial perspective, it is argued that biofictions often employ sustained intermedial strategies—for instance, intermedial references and formal imitation—to engage not only with artistic subjects such as Dostoevsky and their work but also with the premises of creating art.The thesis centers on five Dostoevsky biofictions within film and literature: Aleksandr Zarkhi’s biopic Twenty-Six Days from the Life of Dostoevsky (1980), Leonid Tsypkin’s novel Summer in Baden-Baden (1982), J. M. Coetzee’s novel The Master of Petersburg (1994), Lara Vapnyar’s novel Memoirs of a Muse (2006), and Vladimir Khotinenko’s television series Dostoevsky (2010). As contemporary biofictions, these fictional representations of Dostoevsky were all produced or written in the wake of the aforementioned aporetic shift and therefore comprise examples of the reflexive and metacritical form of biofiction that is discussed in the thesis. The inclusion of Dostoevsky biofictions is, in part, connected with the various critical perceptions of the writer; it is maintained that biofictions such as those analyzed in the thesis proffer new readings of issues that have been overlooked or have not received due attention, such as how Dostoevsky engaged with and augmented the rivalry polemics of his day; the ways in which his conceptualization of Russian identity rested as much on inclusion as exclusion; how Dostoevsky has been employed to propagate certain models of the muse, the genius, and canonicity; and how, in today’s Russia, the writer is employed to embody and express the hyperreal politics of Vladimir Putin’s administration.
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- Hammar, Isak, et al.
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Sverige måste värna den språkliga kompetensen
- 2020
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Ingår i: Göteborgs-Posten. - 1103-9345.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- På senare tid har betydelsen av språk kommit att debatteras med stor iver i offentligheten, inte minst frågan om svenskans ställning i förskola, grundskola och gymnasium. Vikten av en välfungerande språkundervisning gäller hela utbildningskedjan och inte minst för högskolan, skriver bland andra Isak Hammar, fil. dr i historia och verksamhetsledare för tankesmedjan Humtank.
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