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- Käck, Elin, 1983-
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A Spatiotemporal Collage Aesthetic : Poets and Poetry in Siri Hustvedt's Memories of the Future
- 2024
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In: Journal of Modern Literature. - : Indiana University Press. - 0022-281X .- 1529-1464. ; 47:2, s. 82-97
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the structurally and thematically elaborate novel Memories of the Future (2019), Siri Hustvedt foregrounds the relationship between poetry and the novel. Two poets stand out as especially important to matters of plot, theme, and narrative: the modernist avant-garde poet Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and the New York School poet John Ashbery. These poets belong to different, but similarly pivotal moments in the evolution of American literature, one being a prescient—now recognized as iconic—modernist and the other an established, leading postmodernist. Despite their many differences, their output within poetry and the arts point to a collage aesthetics that provides a new way of probing the relationship between poetry and prose, as well as to a focus on the Bakhtinian notions of dialogism, polyphony, and voice, which inform the novel's structure and themes.
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- Käck, Elin, 1983-
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Besides Zurich and Beyond Europe : Decentering Euro-Centrism in Tender Is the Night
- 2017
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In: The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review. - University Park : Penn State University Press. - 1543-3951 .- 1755-6333. ; 15:1, s. 34-50
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- While the cosmopolitan gestures and racial markers in Tender Is the Night have generated thought-provoking readings in Fitzgerald scholarship, the novel's profound exploration of Eurocentrism has been overlooked. This article considers the novel within the frameworks of spatial theory and geo-criticism to uncover its interrogation of Eurocentrism. It argues that Fitzgerald's Europe is part of a relational geography activated by the novel's global network of geographical locales and that it is a made space. Set mainly in Europe, the novel insistently presents a global geography that rests upon the economic transactions that enable the characters' experience and crafting of Europe. It is not some essence of Europe, its historical heritage or cultural hegemony that warrants its position as central, but its function as an amorphous space that has become malleable through economic consumption. The places described are almost exclusively European, but minor characters, slips, and transformations trouble Europe's explicit centrality in the novel. Europe's places lose their singularity with Hollywood replicas superimposed onto existing monuments, but foreign currency is steadily directed at Europe, which means that it retains its status as a central locus. While the novel thus challenges the notion of Europe as center, it nonetheless reiterates much of the Eurocentric argument.
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- Käck, Elin, 1983-
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"En kuslig diagnos på Amerikas framtid", understreckare om William Carlos Williams, Svenska Dagbladet, 18 januari, 2023.
- 2023
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In: Svenska Dagbladet. - Stockholm, Sverige : Svenska Dagbladet AB & Co.. - 1101-2412. ; , s. 22-22
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)
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- Käck, Elin, 1983-
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En POTUS för poesin
- 2020
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In: Stjärnspäckat. - Sundsvall : Mittuniversitetet. - 9789188527714 ; , s. 73-
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Book chapter (pop. science, debate, etc.)
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- Käck, Elin, 1983-
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Kittys kartografi : Platser, artefakter och agens i fyra Kittyböcker
- 2022
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In: Barnboken. - : The Swedish Institute for Children's Books. - 0347-772X .- 2000-4389. ; 45, s. 1-18
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Within children’s and young adult literature, movement betweendifferent places is often intricately linked to the agency of the characters.The Nancy Drew series is no exception, as it is characterized by a widegeographical area and a high level of mobility for the characters, who alsohave substantial agency. This article examines how places, geographies,cartographies, and spatial movements inform the plot in four Swedishtranslations of Nancy Drew mysteries where travel and place constitutea substantial part of the plot:Mystery of the Winged Lion(1982), andthe 1992 trilogy comprisingSwiss Secrets,Rendezvous in Rome, andGreek Odyssey. Informed by spatial literary theory, the analysis focuseson the aspects of place, artifacts closely linked to a specific place, andagency, respectively. The article shows that place, travel, and artifacts arecentral to the mysteries, which depend on touristic, well-known sites, andon the transformations which occur when these sites become potentiallydangerous. At the core of the mysteries, we encounter iconic, at timeshistoric artifacts that sometimes situate the detective series in a realm ofhistory. At times these artifacts even direct the story, and can thus be seen asto some extent agentic. Finally, the travelogue-informed genre, with its tiesto the historic (predominantly male) Grand Tour, creates new possibilitiesfor character development and reflection in the detective series.
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- Käck, Elin, 1983-
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Linguistic Transformation as Counter-Hegemonic Operation in Kora in Hell and Spring and All
- 2016
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In: William Carlos Williams Review. - : Penn State University Press. - 0196-6286 .- 1935-0244. ; 33:1-2, s. 81-100
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article seeks to expand our understanding of the counterhegemonic aspects of Williams’s 1920s work by focusing on commonly overlooked and seemingly minor linguistic transformations. These transformations, the article argues, form a parallel to the overtly polemical statements that are more readily acknowledged as counter-hegemonic and demonstrate the scope of Williams’s engagement with the question of American writing in relation to what I view as the European hegemony at the time. Using the figure of the imagined puma interrupting an opera performance in The Great American Novel as the starting point for discussing the implications of the European hegemony in the realm of literature and the arts in the 1920s, this article subjects specific linguistic operations in Williams’s work to extensive analysis. The article argues that these linguistic transformations, offer important insights into Williams’s conception of poetry as resistance, i.e. into what might be called poetic agency.
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- Käck, Elin, 1983-
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Mediating Poetry in the ESL Classroom : A Study of Swedish ESL Textbooks for Secondary School
- 2019
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In: Moderna Språk. - Linköping, Sweden : Riksföreningen för Lärarna i Moderna Språk - L M S. - 2000-3560. ; 113:1, s. 215-231
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article situates the ESL textbook within current scholarship on intermediality and multimodality and, with poetry as the main focus, considers how the media ecology within the covers of the ESL textbook, as well as that implied outside those covers, e.g. web pages, workbooks, audio files and so on, affects the literary text. This qualitative study of how poetry figures in the Swedish ESL textbook series Wings 7, 8, and 9 analyses the case of Emily Dickinson’s poem “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died,” included in Wings 9, at length to uncover the rich textual web of which a poem in a textbook forms part, as well as the resources it asks learners to mobilize in the emergent event of classroom learning.The inclusion of poems in ESL textbooks typically requires no editorial interventions in terms of abridgement, which makes this genre useful for considering the implications of the medium on the text itself. Poems in ESL textbooks continuously interact with other texts, themes, images and tasks within the textbook. Thus, the medium of the textbook has a transformative effect on the original literary texts it comprises.
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- Käck, Elin, 1983-
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Signs of Language Beyond Calculation : Williams's Use of Foreign Languages, Citation and Collage against Consumerism
- 2022
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In: William Carlos Williams Review. - PA, United States : Penn State University Press. - 0196-6286 .- 1935-0244. ; 39:1, s. 59-77
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article analyzes Williams’s use of foreign words, primarily in Kora in Hell, as well as his employment of signs in various poems, in order to consider his poetic response to a consumerist society characterized by inequality. Drawing on Adorno’s theory on the use of foreign words, this article argues that Williams crafts his challenge to the entanglement between market forces and language in part through recourse to foreign languages. Moreover, within the overall frame of a socially inequitable consumer culture, the article discusses Williams’s inclusion of wandering or immobile figures, such as vagrants, and his own conflicted position in relation to these presences in his poems. The insertion of foreign words and the inclusion of socially marginalized, wandering figures are here, together with procedures of citation and collage, seen as employed in order to expose the ways in which we are bound by a language that is made to serve consumerism and market forces and which only art has the capacity to challenge.
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- Käck, Elin, 1983-
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Spring and All No Longer in Peril
- 2024
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In: William Carlos Williams Review. - : Penn State University Press. - 0196-6286 .- 1935-0244. ; 41:1, s. 1-11
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- Käck, Elin, 1983-
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"They fix 'em so you can't win nothing" : Agency in The Grapes of Wrath
- 2017
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In: The Steinbeck Review. - University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press. - 1546-007X .- 1754-6087. ; :2, s. 184-200
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- While The Grapes of Wrath highlights specific social and institutional structures that direct the course of action of its main characters, shifting the analysis from structure to agency opens up the novel to new readings. This article considers how Steinbeck's novel problematizes agency and argues that it troubles distinctions between human agency and nonhuman agency. Traditional novels generally rely on the actions of their characters, but in The Grapes of Wrath such action is repeatedly thwarted or fails to lead to the desired outcome. Instead, the characters are acted on through various machines or chains of actors that lead back to a vague and bodiless entity, such as the monster-bank. The novel's emphasis on the tractor, the automobile, the handbill, and the bank provides the basis for my reading, together with more subtle instantiations of material agency as seen in the phonograph, the slot machine, the kerosene, and the sticker displayed on the red truck. Agency has traditionally rested on the notion of free will and intention, but recent theories, such as actor-network-theory, or ANT, highlight material agency and move beyond the subject in favor of networks and distribution of agency. This article uses theories on agency to reread Steinbeck's classic novel, but also attempts to show how Steinbeck's novel can increase our understanding of the concept of agency more broadly.
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- Käck, Elin, 1983-
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Troubling Space : Dispersal of Place in The Sun Also Rises and The Garden of Eden
- 2018
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In: The Hemingway Review. - Philadelphia : University of Idaho Department of English. - 0276-3362 .- 1548-4815. ; 37:2, s. 98-112
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Sun Also Rises (1926) and The Garden of Eden (1986) contain a large number of place names, particularly European ones. This essay examines Hemingway's use of place names as a poetic strategy that forms part of an inquiry into the meaning of space and place. While place names appear to be stable referents denoting specific geographical locations, the background of war underscores the arbitrariness involved in borders, place, and location. Hemingway's novels challenge the view of place names as stable referents and demonstrate the crucial role played by artistic representation in the creation of place.
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