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- Forselius, Tilda Maria, 1952
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‘Aber mein Lieber Schneider’: The Printer as a Media Actor and the Drama of Production in Then Swänska Argus (1732–34)
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Ingår i: Journal of European Periodical Studies. - : Ghent University. - 2506-6587. ; 1:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Then Swänska Argus, a weekly journal in the Spectator pattern, was published in Stockholm between 1732 and 1734. Whereas the editor and author Olof Dalin (1708–63) has gained much fame for the enterprise, not much is known about the printer Benjamin Gottlieb Schneider (16??–1738). In this essay I focus on the available evidence about the printer and printing conditions, as well as on the fact that several essays and shorter segments in Then Swänska Argus are addressed to the printer or deal with printing issues. My thesis is that this content played a part in the identity formation of the medium, as it stands for the editor’s interest in the printer and related technology at a time when the moral weekly was new in Sweden. By displaying the making of the medium and the difficulties around it, these passages enable readers to witness the drama of production where the printer plays a leading role. Furthermore, as the narrator Argus is addressing the readers directly and pleading with them to be loyal followers in spite of the printing errors or other potential problems, Argus is also making them actively aware of their part in this drama. In so doing, an education of the readership in questions pertaining to the production process is taking place.
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- Forselius, Tilda Maria, 1952-
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Probing Pioneer Girl Sleuths : Puck Larsson and Nancy Drew in 1950s Girls' Book Series in Sweden
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Ingår i: The Lion and the unicorn. - Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press. - 0147-2593 .- 1080-6563. ; 35:1, s. 24-46
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Sweden, girl sleuth series in juvenile fiction appeared as a new phenomenon in the early 1950s. Deducing American influence, I compare the initial novel in the first series originally written in Swedish, Uno Modin’s Puck jagar en skugga (1951) with the first novel about Nancy Drew, Carolyn Keene’s The Secret of the Old Clock, launched in Swedish the year after. The analysis shows that although there are some basic similarities between the heroines, their contexts and agency significantely diverge. Also, whereas the Nancy Drew story is narrated in a fable-like manner, the Puck story has realist traits and a more advanced and ”literary” language. These differences, together with the post-war time context, help explain the immense popularity of the Nancy Drew novels in relation to the Swedish series.
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- Forselius, Tilda Maria, 1952
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The body and the decent inner self: Letters by Julie Björckegren, wife of a Swedish Mayor, 1789-91
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Ingår i: Women's Writing. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0969-9082 .- 1747-5848. ; 13:1, s. 121-138
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The body of the individual aroused special interest in discourses of the European Enlightenment. One of the questions at stake in literary, rhetorical and epistolary practices concerned what can be inferred about a person's inner self on the basis of his or her bodily appearance. In the second half of the 1700s, the new epistolary rhetoricians recommended that letter writers throw off the stiff personas of classical rhetoric and instead perform the discourse of the heart. The proposed performance, however, was constrained by new parameters, not least strong gender biases. The impact of these cultural discourses are discussed in relation to letters written between 1789 and 1791 by Julie Björckegren, the wife of a Swedish mayor, to Count Carl Sparre, her former lover. Her writing about her body and her social roles is interpreted as a self-reflective practice formed within the constraints of the rhetorical and cultural context. By this practice she shapes her subjectivity and constructs her self as a bourgeois woman.
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- Forselius, Tilda Maria, 1952
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The impenetrable M and the mysteries of narration: Narrative in Minette Walters's The Shape of Snakes
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Ingår i: Clues: A Journal of Detection. - 0742-4248. ; 24:2, s. 47-61
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The author analyzes the narrative of Minette Walters's The Shape of Snakes, focusing on the role of the interpolated letters, the gothic references, and the construction of the first-person narrator-protagonist, who proves to be unreliable. Eclectic uses of genre conventions mean that reading strategies must be reconsidered during reading.
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