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- Brödje, Catrine, 1959-
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Ett annat tiotal : En studie i Anna Lenah Elgströms tiotalsprosa
- 1998
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis investigates the literary texts by Elgström in relation to the political, cultural and literary context of the years between 1910 and 1920.Among her contemporaries Elgström was important, but today she is completely unknown. The literary criticism of her time is one of the reasons why her writings have been transferred to the periphery. When she made her début, Elgström was very positively received. After that, the literary critics were not capable of seeing the innovative aspects of her prose of that period and a discussion of incomprehensibility was initiated, in which words like hysterical, extatic and exalted became catchwords. It appears that Elgström created a form of expression that was not yet accepted in literature. The male dominated literary criticism was at a loss and Elgström was ignored.The prose she wrote during the period in question has a distinctly experimental approach. In her literary texts, that are violating the standard conventions, Elgström appears as a female modernist and creates alternative images in the form of feminist and pacifist utopias. Expressionism is the modernist movement that can mainly be related to her prose of this period. Like the expressionists, she expresses a new sense of life which is permeated with religious conceptions.In the study the female modernism is seen in a feminist perspective, as well as in a perspective of gender theory where networks constitute an important basis. Elgström often worked in female networks and thus she became an important figure in the context of female literature and female politics of that time.By showing Elgström's kinship with the nation-wide early Swedish modernism, the Finno-Swedish modernism and the German expressionism, as well as by illustrating Elgström's position in the context of female literature and female politics of that time, the study contributes to a different image of the 1910s.
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- Choi, Sun-Kyoung, 1967-
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Kraften att älska, makten att tjäna : religion, emancipation och den kvinnliga skapande kraften i Jeanna Oterdahls sagor 1908–1927
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation studies the Swedish author Jeanna Oterdahl (1879–1965), and the fairy tales and stories she wrote in the period 1908–1927. Oterdahl was a well-known Christian public intellectual in her day. Besides being an author, she worked as a teacher and a lecturer, and was importantly involved in a number of organizations for societal development, such as the Association of the Christian Social Life [Förbundet för kristet samhällsliv] and the Settlement Movement [Hemgårdsrörelsen].The purpose of this study is to investigate the religious elements in her fairy tales and stories, and to study how these elements relate to the ideology of the early Swedish women’s emancipation movement. This movement rejected the conservative Christian faith of the Lutheran State Church, and aligned itself with the liberal form of Christianity that, to a greater extent, recognized the equality of men and women before God.Part I deals with the Christian message of love and its relation to emancipatory elements in Otherdahl’s stories. The point of departure for the analysis is Bremer’s interpretation of the Virgin Mary’s response to God’s calling, "Behold, the Lord’s servant" [Se, Herrens tjänarinna] and its emancipatory meaning. The women of Oterdahl’s stories take the role of servants of the Lord – not Lords [Herrens tjänarinna, inte herrarnas]Part II studies the female characters’ quest for their true (female) selves and their true home where alienation between the sexes will cease to exist and a spiritual kinship can take its place. This true home need not necessarily be a physical place; it can be in the form of an idea or a faith in something higher – such as God – where the self can live and reach its full personal potential. Part II analyzes Oterdahl’s understanding of the female characters’ quest against the background of Emilia Fogelklou’s interpretation of the role of Eve in the Genesis creation narrative (presented in her work “Two fairy tales” [Två sagor]), and against the background of one of Oterdahl’s own lectures, “How We Create a Home” [Hur vi skapa ett hem].The study ends with a discussion of how the concepts of freedom and power figure in Oterdahl’s stories. “Freedom” in Oterdahl’s stories is not a pursuit of power, but has to do with the use of one’s special gifts and with service to others. Freedom, in other words, means to take on responsibilities not only in the private home, but also in the community. Fogelklou describes this as a “human cause” [människosak] – something for women and men to strive for together.By examining how the Christian message of love is expressed through the emancipatory efforts of the female protagonists in Oterdahl’s stories, the dissertation highlights a new dimension in her work, and puts in question the common description of her stories as reactionary. Reinterpreted against the background of the Christian concept of calling/vocation and the ideology of the early emancipationist movement, the seemingly reactionary stories can be understood as emphasizing the importance of women in a changing society.
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- Heggestad, Eva, professor, 1946-
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Adelaide Ristori. Världsstjärnan som ideal eller avskräckande exempel
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Ingår i: LIR.journal. - Göteborg. - 2001-2489. ; :5, s. 75-87
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article deals with the famous Italian actress Adelaide Ristori (1822–1906) who toured all over the world during the second half of the 19th Century. Her celebrated performan- ces in Stockholm in 1879 and 1880 are witnessed in contem- porary memories, diaries, and biographies, but also in fiction during the 1880s by autors like Emilie Lundberg Elin Améen, Frans Hedberg, and Josefina Wettergrund. While the more biographical articles discuss Ristori’s performances and greatness as an artist, her function in the fictional stories is more symbolic and she is regarded as either a threat or an enticement.
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- Heggestad, Eva
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Alice Lyttkens : i och om 1930-talet
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Under 1930-talet aktualiserades en rad frågor som rörde kvinnans ställning. var hennes plats i hemmet eller i yrkeslivet? fanns det en möjlighet att förena dessa verksamhetsfält? Alice Lyttkens skrev under 1930-talet sex romaner, där hon placerar sina protagonister i korselden av tidens frågor. men decenniet återkommer också i hennes senare produktion, både i romare skrivna ca 30 år senare, då hon kommer att inta positionen som en mer renodlad underhållningsförfattare, och i hennes memoarer, i vilka hon skildrar sina egna upplevelser av 1930-talet. I denna bok diskuterar och jämför Eva heggestad Alice Lyttkens olika skildringar av 1930-talet. Förutom hennes uppfattning i kvinnofrågan, behandlas frågor som rör genreanpassning och återbruk. Men också Lyttkens egen ställning i 1930-talet tas upp. hur mottogs hennes kontakter med förlaget? Vilken betydelse hade hennes man för hennes framgångsrika författarkarriär? Vid sidan av Alice Lyttkens romaner och memoarer bygger boken även på ett stort recencionsmaterial och på hennes korrespondens med maken Yngve Lyttkens och Bonnierförlaget.
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- Heggestad, Eva
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Alice Lyttkens och det kluvna trettiotalet
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Ingår i: I görningen. - Uppsala : Centrum för genusvetenskap, Uppsala universitet. - 9197568023 ; , s. 34-55
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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