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- Edfeldt, Chatarina, 1963-, et al.
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Northern Crossings : Translation, Circulation and the Literary Semi-periphery
- 2022
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- This open access book uses Swedish literature and the Swedish publishing field as recurring examples to describe and analyse the role of the literary semi-peripheral position in world literature from various perspectives and on meso, micro and macro levels, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. This includes the role of translation in the semi-periphery and the conditions under which literature travels to and from that position. The focus is not on Sweden, as such, but rather on the semi-peripheral transitional space as exemplified by the Swedish case.Consisting of three co-written chapters, this study sheds light on what might be called the semi-peripheral condition or the semi-periphery as an area of transition. As part of the Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures series, it makes continuous use of the concepts of 'cosmopolitan' and 'vernacular' – or rather, the processual terms, cosmopolitanization and vernacularization – which provide an overall structure to the analysis of literature and literary phenomena. In this way, the authors show that the semi-periphery is an ideal point of departure to further the understanding of world literature, because it is a place where the cosmopolitan (the literary universal) and the vernacular (the rootedness in a particular culture or place) interact in ways that have not yet been thoroughly explored.
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- Ekman, Stefan, 1972
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Writing Worlds, Reading Landscapes: An Exploration of Settings in Fantasy
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In fantasy literature, the setting is as important to the story as are characters and plot; but although many fantasy scholars have pointed this out, there is very little criticism that explores the role of the setting in fantasy. The aim of this study is to use a topofocal (place-focused) perspective to examine four aspects of the fantasy setting, including the way in which settings function in terms of their respective worlds and stories. Chapter 2 considers the division of a setting into text and image by investigating the fantasy map through a survey of a random sample of fantasy novels, as well as through a close reading of two maps from The Lord of the Rings. Fantasy maps, while generally adhering to a pseudomedieval aesthetics, may reveal much about the world of their respective works. Chapter 3 explores geographical divisions which also divide different realities. Borders between, for instance, mundanity and Faerie, and between the realms of life and death, may appear to be sharp demarcations but are often gradual transitions from one reality to another. Other areas – polders – are particular realities protected from the outside world by a boundary. These polders are bubbles of the past which extend the world’s topology as well as its history. The chapter demonstrates how a fundamental function for such boundaries and borders is to join opposing realities rather than keep them apart. Chapter 4 examines the relation between nature and culture in four fantasy cities. Each city portrays a highly dissimilar relation compared to the others: where nature is a symbol of just governance in one place, the element of opposition is used as part of a social critique in another; the two domains dissolve into each other in the third, and in the fourth city, nature is a liminal phenomenon between various cultural zones. In each story, however, the nature/culture relation displays a connection to a key theme or concern. Finally, chapter 5 shows how the fantasy genre allows the division between ruler and realm to be bridged, discussing the direct link between them. After an overview of such links, some specific tropes are considered, including the Fisher-King figure and the Dark Lord, and the importance of a non-metaphorical reading of the ruler/realm connection is demonstrated. The topofocal approaches in the four chapters reveal much about the works under consideration, such as their underlying attitudes and central concerns, and prove to be valuable critical strategies in demonstrating how plot, character, and setting are interwoven.
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- Hildeman Sjölin, Mette, 1987-
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“I’m a slave now, for all my fine clothes” : Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and the Dido Myth
- 2023
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Ingår i: Shaw. - State College, PA : Penn State University Press. - 0741-5842 .- 1529-1480. ; 43:1, s. 50-64
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Shaw’s Pygmalion is commonly thought of as an adaptation of the myth of Pygmalion, the sculptor who fell in love with his own sculpture. However, the name of “Pygmalion” in ancient mythology is shared by Dido’s brother, Pygmalion of Tyre. This article suggests Pygmalion as playing with these two mythological Pygmalions by moving through the play from the myth of Pygmalion the Cypriot sculptor to the myth of Dido, who escapes from her tyrannous brother, Pygmalion of Tyre. It is particularly relevant that Dido’s alternative name is “Elissa,” which in Dryden’s translation of Virgil’s The Aeneid is spelled “Eliza.” Dido, therefore, shares the first name of Eliza Doolittle, the heroine of Shaw’s Pygmalion, who escapes from the arguably tyrannous Henry Higgins at the end of the play. Reimagining Eliza and Higgins as Dido and her brother leads to a reading in line with Shaw’s anti-romantic vision of Pygmalion.
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Våra favoriter bland Viktor Rydbergs dikter
- 2008
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- This antology includes 24 poems by Viktor Rydberg. Each poem has an introducing essay written by a scholar, a teacher, a journalist or an author.
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- Beynet Fröjd, Gwénaëlle
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Un Manuscrit du Roman de la Rose en Suède : le manuscrit Vu 39 de la Bibliothèque royale de Stockholm
- 2023
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Ingår i: Pecia. Le livre et l'écrit. - 1761-4961. ; 25:2022, s. 11-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is still quite an unknown and unexploited manuscript of the popular medieval French allegorical poem The Romance of the Rose in Stockholm which is curated in the National Library of Sweden under the number Vu 39. This article has as a goal to give the first information and hypothesis we have about it: the origins of this manuscript which is a version of the XVth Century, a description of its illuminations and some details, also a discussion about a probable centre of illuminations in Paris which made it. It claims to be the first step to place this manuscript in the long tradition of this literary work.
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- Hildeman Sjölin, Mette, 1987-
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'|Y]oung Hamlet' : Shakespeare for Swedish Children
- 2023
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Ingår i: Critical Survey. - Oxford : Berghahn Books. - 0011-1570 .- 1752-2293. ; 35:4, s. 94-112
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Shakespeare’s Hamlet has been retold in children’s versions several times in Sweden in recent years. It was the subject of the first episode of the children’s television programme På teatern [At the Theatre], written and directed by Christina Nilsson for SVT in 2001–2002, where Shakespearean actors meet their child or grandchild backstage after a performance to tell and partly enact the story of the play. In 2005–2006, Lotta Grut wrote the plays Lille Hamlett och spöket [Little Hamlett and the Ghost] and Offelia kom igen! [Offelia Come Again!] for the theatre company Unga Roma. In these fairy-tale versions, the children Hamlet and Ophelia are confronted with death, grief, anger, oppression and erasure. This article argues that the På teatern episode is an adaptation of Hamlet while Grut’s two plays are appropriations. © 2023 Berghahn Books
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