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- Andersson, Pär-Yngve, 1954-
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Modernist Technique and Provincial Life : Tage Aurell as Prose Artist
- 2019
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Ingår i: Scandinavica - International Journal of Scandinavian Studies. - London : Norvik Press. - 0036-5653. ; 58:1, s. 96-112
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Tage Aurell's breakthrough as an author came in the early 1940s, about a decade after his debut. His narrative technique is very distinctive, and some of his short stories are minor classics, but he is not among the best-known Swedish aurthors of the twentieth century.While Aurell travelled and studied in Europe in the 1920s, during the age of high modernism, he then settled in the village of Mangskog in Western Sweden. From this rural vantage point he wrote most of his laconic and profoundly local stories.My aim in this article is to show how the laconism and fragmentary style of Aurell’s narrative texts entails the creation of new artistic forms. Examples of his narrative technique are gathered from ‘Pingstbrud’ (‘The Whitsun Bride’), ‘Grindstolpe’ (‘Gatepost’) and ‘Gamla landsvägen’ (‘The Old Highway’). In ‘Pingstbrud’, Aurell depicts in sparse scenes a rural community and how it reacts to the illness and death of a young woman. In ‘Grindstolpe’, two very different kinds of stories are intertwined in an unusual way. ‘Gamla landsvägen’ is Aurell’s most experimental text, a montage. I show the resemblance with Guillaume Apollinaire’s poem ‘Lundi Rue Christine’, and propose that Aurell looks at his rural village through the lens of modernism. Although the village people he describes seem hardly influenced by modernity, his textual composition is modernist. In these and other short stories Aurell renewed 1940s Swedish prose in a remarkable way.
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- Arping, Åsa, 1968
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Precarious University Life in Post-Welfare Sweden: Time, Place and Identity in Isabelle Ståhl’s “Just nu är jag här” (2017)
- 2020
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Ingår i: Scandinavica: An international journal of Scandinavian studies. - 0036-5653. ; 59:2, s. 89-106
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How are today’s precarious life conditions and complex class distinctions processed in contemporary fiction? Since class has become more and more of a floating concept (Standing, 2011), the need for new approaches is imminent. In recent years, a group of Swedish novelists have described precarious life among university students, which in an age of mass education can no longer be considered a middle-class reserve. Though these depictions differ in many ways, their protagonists share similar struggles to ‘pass’ in the uncertain and competitive university environment, and in late-modern existence as a whole. This article deals with one of these works, Isabell Ståhl’s novel “Just nu är jag här” (Right Now I am Here, 2017). The novel depicts first-person protagonist Elise’s aimless drifting through urban neo-liberal reality –poor, depressed and detached. Even though class is immanently present, its nature often appears obscured in the narration, and I address how this is linked to Elise’s evasive experiences of the world and apparent unwillingness to assert a specific identity or lifestyle. I also reflect on what challenges these seemingly distant, emotionally numb depictions – not conforming to the edifying, emancipatory demands usually imposed on ‘political’ literature – evoke for literary researchers interested in the complex dialogue between art and society.
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- Bachmann, Anne, 1976-
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Souvenirs from the Selma Lagerlöf silent film adaptations : How ‘beautiful’ book editions and prestige cinema collaborated in Swedish visual culture around 1920
- 2012
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Ingår i: Scandinavica - International Journal of Scandinavian Studies. - 0036-5653. ; 51:2, s. 184-207
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- From 1917 to 1930, several of Selma Lagerlöf’s literary works that were adapted into films in Sweden were reissued in editions illustrated with film stills. The article analyses these book editions in relation to the cinema souvenir programme, placing them within the double context of Swedish publishing and cinema culture. and argueing that increased expenses associated with World War I generated this finely tuned interaction between book and film production o. Through the lens of media materiality, this particular piece of cross-media print culture questions the boundaries between visual and printed media, unveiling the connections between the ‘golden’ era of ‘quality’ film production in Sweden around the 1920s and the stable impact of Selma Lagerlöf in Sweden through continuous publication and re-publication.
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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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- Burman, Lars, 1958-
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The Lost Cause of a Northern Petrarchist
- 1993
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Ingår i: Scandinavica - International Journal of Scandinavian Studies. - 0036-5653. ; 32:2, s. 149-176
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Clavier, Berndt, et al.
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Art and the Management of the Racial Archipelago : What is Äga Rum in the Million Homes Programmes in Malmo?
- 2019
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Ingår i: Scandinavica. - : Norvik Press. - 0036-5653. ; 58:3, s. 37-66
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 2015, the Swedish government allocated 130 million SEK to Äga rum ('Taking Place'): a three-year program of arts projects across Sweden to address low voter turnout in certain housing areas, but which, in effect, target the immigrants. We argue-through a short account of Foucault's take on the state, biopolitics, race, and governmentalisation-that this is an example of contemporary state racism, which is best understood as an inextricable part of biopolitical governmentalisation through forms of veridiction. We further analyse a specific governmental program (Äga rum) and a specific project (anonymised) within that program which takes place in two Miljonprogrammet housing areas in Malmö. Although both the program and the project have clear political agendas of empowerment and anti-exclusion, we argue that they nevertheless end up producing racial divisions and what we call a 'racial archipelago.'
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- Hedling, Erik
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Swedish Cinema Alters History: Ingeborg Holm and the Poor Laws Debate
- 2000
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Ingår i: Scandinavica - International Journal of Scandinavian Studies. - 0036-5653. ; 39:1, s. 47-64
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article traces the reception of the the Swedish film Ingeborg Holm in 1913. The film created a fierce debate regarding the Swedish poor laws. This debate eventually led to changes in the law in 1918.
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