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- Akhoondi, Shahab, et al.
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FBXW7/hCDC4 is a general tumor suppressor in human cancer
- 2007
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Ingår i: Cancer Research. - 0008-5472 .- 1538-7445. ; 67:19, s. 9006-9012
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The ubiquitin-proteasome system is a major regulatory pathway of protein degradation and plays an important role in cellular division. Fbxw7 (or hCdc4), a member of the F-box family of proteins, which are substrate recognition components of the multisubunit ubiquitin ligase SCF (Skpl-Cdc53/ Cullin-F-box-protein), has been shown to mediate the ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis of several oncoproteins including cyclin El, c-Myc, c-Jun, and Notch. The oncogenic potential of Fbxw7 substrates, frequent allelic loss in human cancers, and demonstration that mutation of FBXW7 cooperates with p53 in mouse tumorigenesis have suggested that Fbxw7 could function as a tumor suppressor in human cancer. Here, we carry out an extensive genetic screen of primary tumors to evaluate the role of FBXW7 as a tumor suppressor in human tumorigenesis. Our results indicate that FBXW7 is inactivated by mutation in diverse human cancer types with an overall mutation frequency of ∼ 6%. The highest mutation frequencies were found in tumors of the bile duct (cholangio-carcinomas, 35%), blood (T-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia, 31%), endometrium (9%), colon (9%), and stomach (6%). Approximately 43% of all mutations occur at two mutational "hotspots," which alter Arg residues (Arg465 and Arg479) that are critical for substrate recognition. Furthermore, we show that Fbxw7Arg465 hotspot mutant can abrogate wild-type Fbxw7 function through a dominant negative mechanism. Our study is the first comprehensive screen of FBXW7 mutations in various human malignancies and shows that FBXW7 is a general tumor suppressor in human cancer.
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- Barrett, James, 1969-
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The Ergodic revisited : spatiality as a governing principle of digital literature
- 2015
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation examines the role of the spatial in four works of digital interactive literature. These works are Dreamaphage by Jason Nelson (2003), Last Meal Requested by Sachiko Hayashi (2003), Façade by Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern (2005) and Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day by M. D. Coverley (2006). The study employs an original analytical method based on close reading and spatial analysis, which combines narrative, design and interaction theories. The resulting critique argues that the spatial components of the digital works define reader interaction and the narratives that result from it. This is one of very few in-depth studies grounded in the close reading of the spatial in digital interactive literature.Over five chapters, the dissertation analyzes the four digital works according to three common areas. Firstly, the prefaces, design and addressivity are present in each. Secondly, each of the works relies on the spatial for both interaction and the meanings that result. Thirdly, the anticipation of responses from a reader is evaluated within the interactive properties of each work. This anticipation is coordinated across the written text, moving and still images, representations of places, characters, audio and navigable spaces. The similar divisions of form, the role of the spatial and the anticipation of responses provide the basic structure for analysis. As a result, the analytical chapters open with an investigation of the prefaces, move on to the design and conclude with how the spaces of the digital works can be addressive or anticipate responses. In each chapter representations of space and representational space are described in relation to the influence they have upon the potentials for reader interaction as spatial practice. This interaction includes interpretation, as well as those elements associated with the ergodic, or the effort that defines the reception of the digital interactive texts.The opening chapter sets out the relevant theory related to space, interaction and narrative in digital literature. Chapter two presents the methodology for close reading the spatial components of the digital texts in relation to their role in interaction and narrative development. Chapter three assesses the prefaces as paratextual thresholds to the digital works and how they set up the spaces for reader engagement. The next chapter takes up the design of the digital works and its part in the formation of space and how this controls interaction. The fifth chapter looks at the addressivity of the spatial and how it contributes to the possibilities for interaction and narrative. The dissertation argues for the dominance of the spatial as a factor within the formation of narrative through interaction in digital literature, with implications across contemporary storytelling and narrative theory.
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- Berglund, Per, et al.
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Linking Education and Research : A Roadmap for Higher Education Institutions at the Dawn of the Knowledge Society
- 2019
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Ingår i: Linking education and research. - Basel, Switzerland : MDPI. ; , s. 11-33
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In an era characterized by a move towards a “knowledge society”, universities are central in fostering “knowledgeability”, that is the reflexive understanding of knowledge in knowledge societies. The objective of “knowledgeability” can be met through creating a stronger link between education and research. Furthermore, overall student performance, for example in critical thinking and problem solving, can be improved if research-related activities are incorporated into the curriculum.The aim of this paper is to use international examples to discuss the research- education nexus from four different perspectives, namely context, policy, implementation and quality, with case studies from higher education institutions in Singapore and Sweden.We suggest that different integrative technologies can be used to enhance the links, but it will be essential to consider the inputs of training, service and support in using new technology. Interestingly, the act of evaluating the link between education and research will increase awareness of this linkage by stakeholders involved in both education and research. In turn the link can be strengthened, contributing to increased quality in both education and research.
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- Circiumaru, Alexandra, et al.
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Anti-Citrullinated Protein Antibody Reactivity towards Neutrophil-Derived Antigens : Clonal Diversity and Inter-Individual Variation
- 2023
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Ingår i: Biomolecules. - : MDPI. - 2218-273X. ; 13:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Why the adaptive immune system turns against citrullinated antigens in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and whether anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPAs) contribute to pathogenesis are questions that have triggered intense research, but still are not fully answered. Neutrophils may be crucial in this context, both as sources of citrullinated antigens and also as targets of ACPAs. To better understand how ACPAs and neutrophils contribute to RA, we studied the reactivity of a broad spectrum of RA patient-derived ACPA clones to activated or resting neutrophils, and we also compared neutrophil binding using polyclonal ACPAs from different patients.Methods: Neutrophils were activated by Ca2+ ionophore, PMA, nigericin, zymosan or IL-8, and ACPA binding was studied using flow cytometry and confocal microscopy. The roles of PAD2 and PAD4 were studied using PAD-deficient mice or the PAD4 inhibitor BMS-P5.Results: ACPAs broadly targeted NET-like structures, but did not bind to intact cells or influence NETosis. We observed high clonal diversity in ACPA binding to neutrophil-derived antigens. PAD2 was dispensable, but most ACPA clones required PAD4 for neutrophil binding. Using ACPA preparations from different patients, we observed high patient-to-patient variability in targeting neutrophil-derived antigens and similarly in another cellular effect of ACPAs, the stimulation of osteoclast differentiation.Conclusions: Neutrophils can be important sources of citrullinated antigens under conditions that lead to PAD4 activation, NETosis and the extrusion of intracellular material. A substantial clonal diversity in targeting neutrophils and a high variability among individuals in neutrophil binding and osteoclast stimulation suggest that ACPAs may influence RA-related symptoms with high patient-to-patient variability.
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Cold Matters : Cultural perceptions of Snow, Ice and Cold
- 2009
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cold matters on a number of different levels. It has become a political instrument that helps to establish common ground for the cold regions of the globe. As a metaphor, it suggests an impassioned and controlled outlook on life. Physically, cold produces environments where people can freeze and starve to death. Psychologically, it may serve as the route to self-discovery, since it has the capacity to strip away everything except the most essential aspects of the self. Historically, cold has usually been surrounded by negative associations but more recently, it has become a theme to explore in words and pictures and exploit in marketing strategies. At the beginning of the twenty-first century there are signs that indicate that cold is becoming increasingly “cool.” At such a juncture, it is vital to assess the cultural meaning of snow, ice and cold since conventional ideological and metaphorical connotations of the concepts are destabilised. Cold Matters launches the monograph series linked to The Journal of Northern Studies. This interdisciplinary journal concentrates on life in the northern parts of the globe, and is published by Umeå University and Sweden’s northernmost Royal Academy, the Royal Skyttean Society.
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- Dybris McQuaid, Sara, et al.
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A new geography of reference
- 2019
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Ingår i: Ireland and the North. - Oxford : Peter Lang Publishing Group. - 9781788742894 - 9781788742900 - 9781788742917 - 9781788742924 ; , s. 3-14
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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Fictions of the Irish Land War
- 2014
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The eruption of rural distress in Ireland and the foundation of the Land League in 1879 sparked a number of novels, stories and plays forming an immediate response to what became known as the Irish land war. These works form a literary genre of their own and illuminate both the historical events themselves and the material conditions of reading and writing in late nineteenth-century Ireland. Divisions into 'us' and 'them' were convenient for political reasons, but the fiction of the period frequently modifies this alignment and draws attention to the complexity of the land problem. This collection includes studies of canonical land war novels, publication channels, collaborations between artists and authors, literary conventions and the interplay between personal experience and literary output. It also includes unique resources such as a reprinted letter by the author Mary Anne Sadlier and a reproduction of Rosa Mulholland's little-known play Our Boycotting. The book concludes with a detailed bibliography of land war fiction between 1879 and 1916, which should inspire further reading and research into the genre.
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- Fornander, Lotta, et al.
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Cortical plasticity in patients with median nerve lesions studied with MEG
- 2016
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Ingår i: Somatosensory & motor research. - : TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. - 0899-0220 .- 1369-1651. ; 33:3-4, s. 178-185
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We have previously shown age- and time-dependent effects on brain activity in the primary somatosensory cortex (SI), in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study of patients with median nerve injury. Whereas fMRI measures the hemodynamic changes in response to increased neural activity, magnetoencephalography (MEG) offers a more concise way of examining the evoked response, with superior temporal resolution. We therefore wanted to combine these imaging techniques to gain additional knowledge of the plasticity processes in response to median nerve injury. Nine patients with median nerve trauma at the wrist were examined with MEG. The N1 and P1 responses at stimulation of the injured median nerve at the wrist were lower in amplitude compared to the healthy side (pamp;lt;.04). Ulnar nerve stimulation of the injured hand resulted in larger N1 amplitude (pamp;lt;.04). The amplitude and latency of the response did not correlate with the sensory discrimination ability. There was no correlation between N1 amplitude and size of cortical activation in fMRI. There was no significant difference in N1 latency between the injured and healthy median nerve. N1 latency correlated positively with age in both the median and ulnar nerve, and in both the injured and the healthy hand (pamp;lt;.02 or pamp;lt;.001). It is concluded that conduction failure in the injured segment of the median nerve decreases the amplitude of the MEG response. Disinhibition of neighboring cortical areas may explain the increased MEG response amplitude to ulnar nerve stimulation. This can be interpreted as a sign of brain plasticity.
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- Haghighi, Mona, et al.
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A Comparison of Rule-based Analysis with Regression Methods in Understanding the Risk Factors for Study Withdrawal in a Pediatric Study
- 2016
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Ingår i: Scientific Reports. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2045-2322. ; 6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Regression models are extensively used in many epidemiological studies to understand the linkage between specific outcomes of interest and their risk factors. However, regression models in general examine the average effects of the risk factors and ignore subgroups with different risk profiles. As a result, interventions are often geared towards the average member of the population, without consideration of the special health needs of different subgroups within the population. This paper demonstrates the value of using rule-based analysis methods that can identify subgroups with heterogeneous risk profiles in a population without imposing assumptions on the subgroups or method. The rules define the risk pattern of subsets of individuals by not only considering the interactions between the risk factors but also their ranges. We compared the rule-based analysis results with the results from a logistic regression model in The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study. Both methods detected a similar suite of risk factors, but the rule-based analysis was superior at detecting multiple interactions between the risk factors that characterize the subgroups. A further investigation of the particular characteristics of each subgroup may detect the special health needs of the subgroup and lead to tailored interventions.
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- Hall, Kirsten Sundby, et al.
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Adjuvant chemotherapy and postoperative radiotherapy in high-risk soft tissue sarcoma patients defined by biological risk factors-A Scandinavian Sarcoma Group study (SSG XX)
- 2018
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Ingår i: European Journal of Cancer. - : ELSEVIER SCI LTD. - 0959-8049 .- 1879-0852. ; 99, s. 78-85
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: To investigate the outcome following adjuvant doxorubicin and ifosfamide in a prospective non-randomised study based on a soft tissue sarcoma (STS) patient subgroup defined by specific morphological characteristics previously shown to be at a high-risk of metastatic relapse. The expected 5-year cumulative incidence of metastases in patients with this risk profile has previously been reported to be about 50% without adjuvant chemotherapy.Methods: High-risk STS was defined as high-grade morphology (according to the Federation Nationale des Centres de Lutte Contre le Cancer [FNCLCC] grade II-III) and either vascular invasion or at least two of the following criteria: tumour size >= 8.0 cm, infiltrative growth and necrosis. Six cycles of doxorubicin (60 mg/m(2)) and ifosfamide (6 g/m(2)) were given. Postoperative accelerated radiotherapy was applied and scheduled between cycles 3 and 4.Results: For the 150 eligible patients, median follow-up time for metastases-free survival was 3.9 years (range 0.2-8.7). Five-year metastases-free survival (MFS) was 70.4% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 63.1-78.4) with a local recurrence rate of 14.0% (95% CI: 7.8-20.2). For overall survival (OS), the median follow-up time was 4.4 years (range: 0.2-8.7). The five-year OS was 76.1% (95% CI: 68.8-84.2). Tumour size, deep location and reduced dose intensity (<80%) had a negative impact on survival. Toxicity was moderate with no treatment-related death.Conclusions: A benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy, compared to similar historical control groups, was demonstrated in STS patients with defined poor prognostic factors. Vascular invasion, tumour size, growth pattern and necrosis may identify patients in need of adjuvant chemotherapy.
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- Hansson, Heidi, 1956-
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An Arctic Eden : Alexande Hutchinson's Try Lapland and the Hospitable North
- 2012
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Ingår i: Northern Review. - Whitehorse, Canada : Yukon College. - 0835-3433 .- 1929-6657. ; Spring:35, s. 147-166
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As tourism boomed in the latter half of the nineteenth century, depictions of the Scandinavian North as a testing place for heroes gave way to representations where the region emerges as accessible and hospitable. Travel narratives like Alexander Hutchinson’s Try Lapland: A Fresh Field for Summer Tourists (1870) played an important role in modifying the previously dominant paradigm. This article discusses Hutchinson’s travel book as a transitional text where the North is transformed from a place of danger to a place of leisure. The redefinition of the region includes, among other things, a female gendering of the area compared to the masculine image of the Arctic conveyed in exploration narratives and a projection of the author as visitor and consumer rather than conqueror and explorer. The representation of place is inextricably bound up with the representation of self in the text, and by presenting himself as a middle-class tourist, Hutchinson presents Swedish Lapland as closer to English suburbia than to the North Pole. In this way, he contributes to the place-making that designs Lapland as a tourist destination in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
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- Hansson, Heidi, 1956-
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Anne Enright and postnationalism in the contemporary Irish novel
- 2009
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Ingår i: Irish literature since 1990. - Manchester : Manchester University Press. - 9780719075636 ; , s. 216-231
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Anne Enright has been hailed as one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Irish fiction, but it is very difficult to find a place for her in contemporary Irish criticism. To some extent this is a result of the preoccupation with issues of national identity and the state of Irish society that informs so much of current criticism, which means that literature that avoids these themes easily gets overlooked. Another explanation may be found in Enright’s fragmented storytelling, which means that themes are not always easily detected or obvious.This paper considers Anne Enright’s 2001 novel What Are You Like? as a ‘postnationalist’ text, showing how both her narrative strategies and the themes she addresses can be linked to a position beyond nationalism. In the national story, the search for identity can usually be satisfied through information about genetic – and by extension ethnic – background and identification with the nation, but Enright demythologises many of the staples of earlier Irish fiction, such as rural farm life, family relationships and the moral superiority of nuns, and she does not replace these old stabilities with a new belief in genetics which could have been logical, since the story concerns twins. Instead of showing the primacy of heredity Enright argues, like so many postmodern writers, that identity is in constant process. Such a view is at odds with a vision of nationality founded on ethnic origin, and so both the characters’ personal search for selfhood and Enright’s deconstruction of common Irish myths can be linked to a postnationalist position.A postnationalist reading of Enright’s novel obviously accepts the centrality of ‘nation’ in Irish literature to some extent, and overlooks other aspects of the work, such as its relationship to feminism or how early separation may affect the lives of twins, which is, after all, the novel’s most obvious theme. Given the preoccupation with questions of nation in present-day Irish literature and criticism, however, it is important to include also women’s writing in this context and to add expressions of postnationalism to the equation. The paper therefore primarily considers those elements in What Are You Like? that can be related to a postnationalist outlook.
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- Hansson, Heidi, 1956-
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Arctopias : the Arctic as No Place and New Place in fiction
- 2015
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Ingår i: The new Arctic. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319176017 ; , s. 69-77
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In fiction written from the outside, i. e., not by the indigenous population, an Arctic setting has long been used to emphasise the tough and heroic qualities of predominantly male main characters. The primary genres have been adventure stories and thrillers, with the region depicted as a natural rather than a social world. But there is also a counter-tradition where the Arctic is perceived as the route to or the place of an alternative world. Such utopian, or Arctopian works, appear in the nineteenth century when Arctic exploration maintained public interest and seem to reappear in the form of so-called cli-fi or climate fiction today. The works usually describe new forms of social organisation, and as a result, they contribute to changing persistent ideas about the Arctic as pristine nature. At the same time, genre characteristics rely on conventional ideas of the Arctic as empty space, which means that fantasies of the region continue to play a comparatively important role, despite increasing knowledge about actual conditions.
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- Hansson, Heidi
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Bayard Taylor and the Genders of the North
- 2006
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Ingår i: Edda: Nordisk tidskrift for litteraturforskning. ; :1, s. 18-33
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In nineteenth-century travelogues, representations of nature as feminine commonly serve to underscore constructions of masculinity as dominant, controlled and rational. Feminine language is more readily utilised to describe southern than northern spaces, however. Thus, southern landscapes are quite often seen as picturesque and coded as feminine, whereas northern landscapes are frequently described as awe-inspiring and sublime and given masculine properties. To some extent, the American travel writer Bayard Taylor’s Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Lapland and Norway (1858) conforms to a model which genders the land feminine and the traveller masculine. But a factor that seems to influence how a region is discursively gendered is to what degree the writer is presented as separated from or integrated with the environment. To some extent, Taylor’s representation of the North as a physically demanding region where the traveller is vulnerable works to undermine the conventionally masculine position of much nineteenth-century travel writing. As a result, the narrative vacillates between reinforcing and undermining essentialist gender polarities, highlighting the problem of gendering physical space.
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- Hansson, Heidi, 1956-
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Between Nostalgia and Modernity : Competing Discourses in Travel Writing about the Nordic North
- 2011
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Ingår i: Iceland and Images of the North. - Québec : Presses de l’Université du Québec. - 9782760530850 - 9789979992226 ; , s. 255-282
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- In travel narratives by nineteenth-century visitors, the Nordic North generally emerges as pre-modern and uncivilised. Yet the most widespread view of the Nordic countries today is that they are socially progressive, liberal and politically advanced. The connection between present-day socio-political discourses and cultural discourses of the past thus seems to be very weak or even absent. When a micro-perspective is applied, however, it becomes clear that the idea of a northern modernity has a long history. Current interpretations of the region as a site of progress do not break with previous depictions but constitute the continuation of a counter-discourse that was always present. Nineteenth-century works frequently contain both images of fairy-tale forests and descriptions of modern cities, and sometimes manage to combine the idea of the demanding, masculine-coded North with a view that foregrounds women’s emancipation and opportunities in society. To function as an alternative and an inspiration, however, the region needs to be modern in a different way than London or Paris. It could be said that the modernity the Nordic North was made to represent in the second half of the nineteenth and at the beginning of the twentieth century built on the same features that led to nostalgic interpretations of the region.
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- Hansson, Heidi
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Byatt and Fowles : postmodern romances with feminism
- 1997
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Ingår i: The interpretation of culture and the culture of interpretation. - Uppsala : Uppsala universitet. - 9185178276 ; , s. 27-43
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- Hansson, Heidi, 1956-, et al.
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Cover art and content : selling arctic crime fiction
- 2021
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Ingår i: Visual representations of the arctic. - New York : Routledge. - 9780367460662 - 9780367745325 - 9781003158295 ; , s. 139-156
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Arctic crime novels are primarily consumed by an urban, non-northern audience, and at their best, the stories manage to portray the diversity of the far north. The cover art of books however often relies on topographical or weather-related stereotypes to construct a recognisable Arctic iconography. Dominant colours are blue and white, and whereas people are generally absent from the pictures, wild animals are overrepresented in apparent contradiction to the social dimension of crime literature. This chapter discusses how far the covers of original Swedish and translated versions of Åsa Larsson’s Arctic crime novel Solstorm (2003, Sun Storm) seem to address the expectations of an urban or European/global reading public. The cover image can be understood as part of the translation process, as either a “foreignizing” practice that draws attention to alien elements in the text or a “domesticating” method that smooths out differences. The cover picture consequently functions as both paratext and strategic branding.
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- Hansson, Heidi, 1956-
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Emily Lawless and Botany as a Foreign Science
- 2011
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Ingår i: Journal of Literature and Science. - Glamorgan : University of Glamorgan. - 1754-646X. ; 4:1, s. 59-73
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- Hansson, Heidi, 1956-
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Emily Lawless and History as Story
- 2015
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Ingår i: <em>The Irish Short Story</em>. - Oxford : Peter Lang Publishing Group. - 9783034317535 ; , s. 61-81
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- Hansson, Heidi, 1956-
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English Literary Studies in Sweden 1950-2019 : Doctoral Research Projects and Disciplinary Renewal
- 2021
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of English Studies. - : Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg. - 1502-7694 .- 1654-6970. ; 20:2, s. 29-58
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- The focus of doctoral research is of great significance for the development of an academic discipline and the potential for innovation. A significant number of PhD graduates however expect to be employed as university teachers, and the correlation between competence needs as suggested by the undergraduate curriculum and PhD research appears to be weak. Based on library catalogue data and digital archives, this study investigates interrelations between the initial research orientation of individual scholars and the development of English as a university subject in Sweden. Dissertation topics 1950-1999 indicate a gradual shift from a dominance of linguistics in the earlier decades to a dominance of literary studies towards the end of the period. Dissertations in the field of English-language literature between 2000 and 2019 demonstrate a growing interest in literatures outside England and the United States, a predominance of studies of prose and a move towards contextual modes of criticism centred on social or political theories. Studies of modern or contemporary literature dominate greatly whereas there are few dissertations on older literature. Undergraduate course plans and literature lists for 2020 from the major research universities show a strong connection between first-term literature courses and current research, as indicated by the topics of PhD dissertations from the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The teaching of older literature is not supported by new research to the same extent, however, which means that it may become increasingly difficult to ensure the close links between research and study programmes stipulated in the Swedish Higher Education Act (1992:1434).
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- Hansson, Heidi, 1956-
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Feminine Poles : Josephine Diebitsch-Peary's and Jennie Darlington's polar narratives
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Ingår i: Cold matters. - Umeå : Umeå University and the Royal Skyttean Society. - 9789188466709 ; , s. 105--123
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- From the Eurocentric or Anglo-American point of view, the Arctic and the Antarctic have often been perceived and presented as the last masculine preserves on earth. Outside constructions of the masculine Arctic obviously also disregard the circumstance that people have lived in the region for very long, but there are also non-indigenous women who have spent time or lived in both areas, to begin with usually as companions to their husbands, but in later years as researchers in their own right. Two early narratives about life in the far North and the far South, respectively, are Josephine Diebitsch-Peary’s My Arctic Journal: A Year Among Ice-Fields and Eskimos (1893) and Jennie Darlington’s My Antarctic Honeymoon: A Year at the Bottom of the World (1956). Both women describe life in the polar areas in ways compatible with the gender ideologies of their time. In many respects, however, Diebitsch-Peary’s account presents more radical suggestions for how women might live in the masculine polar environment than Darlington whose conclusion is that the Antarctic should remain a men-only continent.
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- Hansson, Heidi, et al.
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Inledning
- 2010
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Ingår i: Regionernas bilder. - Umeå : Print & Media. - 9789172649644 ; , s. 7-14
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