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- Berglund, Karl, 1983-
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Mordens marknad : Litteratursociologiska studier i det tidiga 2000-talets svenska kriminallitteratur
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation deals with Swedish crime fiction and its successes on the Swedish book market in the early 2000s. The genre’s expansion, marketing and literary content is mapped and analysed in three studies that together paint a thorough picture of this literary phenomena in Swedish book trade.In study no 1 the development of the genre in Sweden in the last 40 years is discussed from a quantitative perspective. With the base in bibliographies of Swedish crime fiction publication trends are analysed in several ways and concerning topics such as genre growth, gender balance, publishing houses, successful authorships, bestsellers and library lending. The results include: a significant genre expansion in the 2000s; a great dominance for the genre on the bestseller charts in the 2000s; and a shift in the author group, from male dominance to even gender balance.In study no 2 the marketing of the genre is examined through an analysis of book covers, titles and other elements in the concrete packaging of just over 150 Swedish crime fiction paperbacks. With book history as an important theoretical influence book covers and other peritextual elements are understood as a significant part of the marketing of the genre, but also – and wider – as of crucial importance for how genres themselves are established, withheld and re-negotiated in the interplay between different actors in the society of literature – publishers, authors, booksellers, readers.In study no 3 a quantitative content analysis of 116 Swedish crime novels published 1998–2015 is used to chart and discuss recurring themes and tropes within the genre. Focus is primarily directed towards what is understood as the most central parts of crime fiction: murderers and their motives; methods used in committing murder; victims of murder; and detectives and other protagonists. The results include: a distinct dominance of female protagonists; a partial realism, where depictions of everyday life in general is realistic while the murder plots are spectacular and sensational; and a dominance of normality, where main characters and innocent victims confirms normality, while killers and unsympathetic victims are depicted as deviants in stark contrast with normality.
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- Burman, Anders, 1971-
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Politik i sak : C.J.L. Almqvists samhällstänkande 1839-1851
- 2005
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis concerns the political ideas of the Swedish author, journalist and thinker Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793–1866). The main source material consists of his theoretical works and the slightly more than 700 articles that he wrote for newspapers such as Aftonbladet and Jönköpingsbladet between 1839 and 1851. The study consists of an introduction and ten chapters dealing with various aspects of Almqvist’s political thinking, among them his view of man, history, religion and educational policy as well as his commitment to the Scandinavist movement and his standpoint in the question of the Swedish representative system.The dissertation shows that Almqvist had well-reasoned ideas in all these areas and that he argued from a liberal point of view throughout. He was a political reformist who emphasized individualism, freedom and tolerance. He also had confidence in man’s ability to decide his own destiny and a negative attitude towards the old privilege society and all kinds of institutions regarded as irrational. In addition, he believed that society becomes more and more democratic and that in the long run all adults, even women, servants and unpropertied, should become citizens with political rights, even if it was still not time for a truly democratic system. So even if Almqvist had an ideal of a consistent democracy with universal suffrage, he did not consider the society of his day to be ready for such a reform. First, the people have to raise their level of political awareness and learn what a democratic form of government really implies. In that process the educational system, the press and political associations may have an important function.Almqvist always tried to combine his utopian visions with concrete reform proposals. He did not only dream of a utopian society; he also tried to show some possible paths towards attaining that society. Besides the utopian feature in his political thinking, there is an unmistakable striving after concreteness and a desire to exert an influence on the contemporary society.
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- Dahlern, Tanja von, 1978-
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Moving Images of Literature : Transformations of Literature in Contemporary Video and Film Installation Art
- 2015
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study aims to contribute to a better understanding of the many engagements with literature beyond the literary field. More specifically, it studies different ways of staging and transforming literature in video and film installation since the 1990s. The dissertation presents a close reading of four artworks, each representing a key approach to transformation: Stan Douglas’ Der Sandmann (1995), based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s 1817 short story of the same title; Gerard Byrne’s 1984 and Beyond (2005–07), a staging of a conversation between science fiction writers, originally published in Playboy magazine in 1963; Fiona Tan’s Disorient (2009), which takes Marco Polo’s travelogue from the late thirteenth century as its point of departure; and Kutluğ Ataman’s The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (2009), derived from Shakespeare’s plays. Video and film installation occupies an important position in contemporary art, often using pre-existing cultural material from other media. Its specific temporal and spatial structure makes it a particularly rich art form for the study of how literary works are transformed, and what images of literature, in its broadest sense, are used and set in motion. The focus is on processes of transformation through selection and modification, interpretation, reframing, and shift in media. The study is informed by theories from the fields of intertextuality, intermediality, adaptation studies, and artistic appropriation.Each of the artists turn to widely-known works or authors. The approaches to literature range from the projection of alphanumeric text to the staging of a conversation between authors, which shifts the focus from the literary work to the discourses and conditions of literature. It becomes clear that the artists, in their installations, do not necessarily perform retellings of their sources. Literature is discussed in its role as a vehicle for cultural values, as a place where narrative conventions are negotiated, and where cultural space is mediated and constructed. All the studied artists employ a variety of devices of estrangement. The dissertation especially discusses the oscillation between source and derived work in relation to the installations’ self-reflexive form.
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- Dellstig, David, 1986-
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Den efterfrågade vetenskapen : Universitetsbibliotek, akademiska tidskrifter och vetenskapliga förlag 1968–2018
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- What is the value of academic publications? How are they valued? What affects the processes of valuation? These are the central questions dealt with in this dissertation. By studying academic infrastructure, consisting of university libraries, academic journals and academic publishers, this thesis aims to explore and understand what creates value in an international market for academic journals and publications. I argue that in this market, value is affirmed through different measures of academic diffusion or dissemination. These measures work in a self-reinforcing manner: measures of diffusion create value that, in turn, leads to further diffusion, which generates more value.By studying library acquisitions in Sweden, and the reasoning behind these decisions since the beginnings of the e-journal in the 1990s, I show that bundles of academic journals, created by international publishers, have been, and are still, in high demand during the 21st century, despite ever-growing costs. The value of these bundles is measured and affirmed through different forms of user statistics.Additionally, I study the economy of two specific academic journals and what they require to function. I argue that all journals must either be viable as a market product or be subsidized by external funds. Both of these dependencies pose challenges to the journal.Between the libraries and the journals stand the academic publishers and their business model of bundled journals, which causes the libraries to subscribe to certain journals over a long period of time. I argue that this, in turn, causes these journals to become more diffused in order to acquire a solid source of income. A journal that does not fit the publisher’s business models cannot reap the same benefits.I further argue that since libraries ascribe great value to user statistics, international publishers will increase the value of their bundle by including journals that are likely to boost these statistics in many libraries. Hence, this measure of diffusion, through the actions of libraries, causes further dispersion among the journals that the publishers select. International dissemination of academic publications is also something that affects all evaluations that build upon citation analysis, another measure of academic diffusion.
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Frida och andra
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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