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- Adolfsson, Jan, et al.
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Clinical characteristics and primary treatment of prostate cancer in Sweden between 1996 and 2005
- 2007
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In: Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0036-5599 .- 1651-2065. ; 41:6, s. 456-477
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- OBJECTIVE: The incidence of prostate cancer is rising rapidly in Sweden and there is a need to better understand the pattern of diagnosis, tumor characteristics and treatment. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Between 1996 and 2005, all new cases of adenocarcinoma of the prostate gland were intended to be registered in the National Prostate Cancer Register (NPCR). This register contains information on diagnosing unit, date of diagnosis, cause of diagnosis, tumor grade, tumor stage according to the TNM classification in force, serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels at diagnosis and primary treatment given within the first 6 months after diagnosis. RESULTS: In total, 72,028 patients were registered, comprising >97% of all pertinent incident cases of prostate cancer in the Swedish Cancer Register (SCR). During the study period there was a considerable decrease in median age at the time of diagnosis, a stage migration towards smaller tumors, a decrease in median serum PSA values at diagnosis, a decrease in the age-standardized incidence rate of men diagnosed with distant metastases or with a PSA level of > 100 ng/ml at diagnosis and an increase in the proportion of tumors with Gleason score <6. Relatively large geographical differences in the median age at diagnosis and the age-standardized incidence of cases with category T1c tumors were observed. Treatment with curative intent increased dramatically and treatment patterns varied according to geographical region. In men with localized tumors and a PSA level of <20 ng/ml at diagnosis, expectant treatment was more commonly used in those aged > or =75 years than in those aged <75 years. Also, the pattern of endocrine treatment varied in different parts of Sweden. CONCLUSIONS: All changes in the register seen over time are consistent with increased diagnostic activity, especially PSA testing, resulting in an increased number of cases with early disease, predominantly tumors in category T1c. The patterns of diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer vary considerably in different parts of Sweden. The NPCR continues to be an important source for research, epidemiological surveillance of the incidence, diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.
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- Bäckström, Anders, 1944-, et al.
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Welfare and Religion in 21st Century Europe : Volume 2. Gendered, Religious and Social Change
- 2011. - 1
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Book (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This is the second of two volumes emanating from the Welfare and Religion in a European Perspective - project at Uppsala University. It includes four different analysis of the results from a comparative study of eight countries in Europe (Sweden, Finland, Norway, England, France Germany, Italy and Greece), a sociological, gender, theological and general theoretical analysis.
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- Bäckström, Anders, 1944-, et al.
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Welfare and Religion in 21st Century Europe : Volume 1. Configuring the Connections
- 2010. - 1
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This is an overview of the relationship between welfare regimes and majority churches in eight selected countries in Europe. It shows that there is a connection between the evolution of the respective welfare regime and the religious organisation prevalent in the country studied. It also shows that a changing role of the welfare state and of religious institutions give religious organisations both an innovative role and a voice in the public debate on solidarity values.
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- Gjengset, Gunnar Hauk, 1946-
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Matti Aikio - verk og virke
- 2011
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Denne avhandlingen studerer de litterære verkene til den samiske forfatteren Matti Aikio, samt det nedslag hans verk hadde i samtidens Norge. Aikios romaner, artikler, skuespill og billedkunst ble skapt i tidsrommet 1904-29, en periode da Norge som ny selvstendig nasjonalstat hadde begrenset toleranse med sin samiske minoritet. En slik etnisk kultur-forståelse var i samsvar med samtidens rådende sosial-darwinisme, på overgangen fra kolonialisme til imperialisme. I slike omgivelser fremsto Matti Aikio som norsk forfatter med bøker skrevet på norsk – men med et selvvalgt samisk-lydende kunstnernavn. Det er avhandlingens mål å avdekke en mulig notsetningen mellom storsamfunnets forventning om assimilasjon og Aikios diskrete presentasjon av samiske verdier i sitt verk og virke. Det blir diskutert om nettopp valg av virkemidler førte til mistenkeliggjøring fra samtidens samiske talsmenn, men at ettertiden har vist at Aikios insistering på samarbeidslinje ville gi bedre langsiktige resultater for samisk språk og kultur. Samtidig søker analysen å underbygge at Aikio selv fikk en økt forståelse for den samiske kulturens mangfold i løpet av sin karriere – samtidig som taktikken endret seg i forfatterens langsiktige strategi om full likestilling for den samiske minoriteten. Fra å hevde at den ekte samiske kulturen bare fantes i Karasjok, endte han med en mer moderne og inkluderende forståelse av en samisk folkegruppe med et mangfold av språk og kulturuttrykk.
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Literary history : towards a global perspective Vol. 1 Notions of literature across times and cultures
- 2006
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective is a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). Initiated in 1996 and launched in 1999, it aims at finding suitable methods and approaches for studying and analysing literature globally, emphasizing the comparative and intercultural aspect.Even though we nowadays have fast and easy access to any kind of information on literature and literary history, we encounter, more than ever, the difficulty of finding a credible overall perspective on world literary history. Until today, literary cultures and traditions have usually been studied separately, each field using its own principles and methods. Even the conceptual basis itself varies from section to section and the genre concepts employed are not mutually compatible. As a consequence, it is very difficult, if not impossible, for the interested layperson as well as for the professional student, to gain a clear and fair perspective both on the literary traditions of other peoples and on one's own traditions.The project can be considered as a contribution to gradually removing this problem and helping to gain a better understanding of literature and literary history by means of a concerted empirical research and deeper conceptual reflection. The contributions to the four volumes are written in English by specialists from a large number of disciplines, primarily from the fields of comparative literature, Oriental studies and African studies in Sweden. All of the literary texts discussed in the articles are in the original language.Each one of the four volumes is devoted to a special research topic.
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-
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Analogier från litteratur till verklighet
- 2005
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In: Det öppna rummet. - Helsingfors : Söderström Förlag Ab. - 9515222850 ; , s. 157-167
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-
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"Barbaric Yawp" in Swedish
- 2013
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In: Rocznik Komparatystyczny / Comparative Yearbook. - Szczecin. - 2081-8718. ; 4, s. 265-272
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-
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[Book Review] Ivan Callus, James Corby, and Gloria Lauri-Lucente, eds. Style in Theory: Between Literature and Philosophy. London, New Delhi, New York, and Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2013. Pp. 366. ISBN: 9781441128935.
- 2014
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In: Recherche littéraire / Literary Research. - : University of Western Ontario. - 0849-0570. ; 30, s. 30-34
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-
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Comparative literature in Sweden
- 2017
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In: Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada. - Rio de Janeiro : Universidade Federal Fluminense, Instituto de Letras. - 0103-6963. ; 18:30, s. 32-39
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- O artigo oferece um panorama dos estudos literários comparativos na Suécia desde o século XIX até hoje.
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-
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Comparative literature in Sweden
- 2021
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In: Comparative literature around the world. - Paris : Honoré Champion. - 9782745354693 - 9782745354709 ; , s. 95-103
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-
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Europe
- 2022
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In: Literature. - Chichester : John Wiley & Sons. - 9780470671900 - 9781119775751 - 9781119775737 ; , s. 141-213
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Most of geographical Europe was inhabited by groups of people without writing, peoples known to us exclusively through archaeology or accounts by their southern neighbors. The oldest Greek literature preserved to our days consists of four epics. The Iliad (Ilias) and the Odyssey (Odysseia) are associated with the name of Homer, while the Theogony (Theogonia) and the Works and Days (Erga kai hemerai) are ascribed to Hesiod. Literary forms that combined music, movement, and words were also the starting point of Greek drama, perhaps the most original of all Greek literary creations. Alexander's wars became a watershed in Greek history and culture. Native Roman literary culture all but disappeared in the encounter with the Greeks. During the first century bce, Latin literature successively acquired a new set of native classics, and these writers were felt to stand comparison with the best Greek authors.
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-, et al.
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Europe
- 2022
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In: Literature. - Chichester : John Wiley & Sons. - 9780470671900 - 9781119775751 - 9781119775737 ; , s. 596-669
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The chapter looks at Byzantine literature, Arabic literature in Europe, and literature in Latin. Then a series of sections are devoted to western European vernacular literature – the central, emergent European tradition. The chapter considers its early manifestations in drama, narrative poetry and prose, and lyric poetry. It moves on to traditions more peripheral during our period – to traditional Celtic and Germanic literature and to Slavic literature. The chapter describes some literary-sociological reflections concerning audiences, conditions of authorship, and text production, reflecting, among other things, on the importance of Johannes Gutenberg's invention of a new type of printing press toward the very end of our period. The cultures on the western, northern, and eastern fringes of Europe – Celtic, Germanic, Slavonic, and others – had poetic traditions of their own, but those were slowly being made obsolete by the new, Christian civilization spreading across all parts of Europe dominated by the Roman Catholic Church.
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-
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Experience-oriented reading of literature versus literary criticism
- 2023
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In: Literatures of the world and the future of comparative literature. - Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers. - 9789004538498 - 9789004547179 ; , s. 172-181
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- It should be obvious that literary texts are written primarily for being read and experienced by an unspecified audience of interested readers, not primarily for being made the object of critical analysis or interpretation by professional critics. However, it is a common idea that literary critics are doing the same things as lay readers do, just doing it better. (Toril Moi, Aleida Assmann, and Peter Lamarque) I argue that this common way of thinking distorts our understanding of both the ordinary reading of literature and literary criticism. The ordinary reading of literature for the literary experience—what I call “experience-oriented reading”—is being cast as something simplistic and second-rate, while it is arguably the kind of reading that literature is intended for. At the same time, it must be wrong to portray the literary critic as essentially a reader. The specific role of the literary critic is not to read literature but to have interesting things to say about literature—a secondary activity, compared with experience-oriented reading, but naturally an important pursuit in its own right. Critics will of course have read the works on which they comment, but just reading does not make anybody a critic. Also, to describe critics as extra good readers is to give a far too simple image of the array of highly diverse activities and projects conventionally viewed as literary criticism.
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-
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Factuality and Literariness
- 2020
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In: Narrative Factuality. - Berlin : Walter de Gruyter. - 9783110482805 - 9783110486278 - 9783110484991 ; , s. 601-612
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-
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How Literature Changes the Way We Think
- 2012
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In: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. - Notre Dame, US : University of Notre Dame Press. - 1538-1617.
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Review (peer-reviewed)
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-, et al.
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Introduction
- 2011
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In: Why literary studies?. - Oslo : Novus Forlag. - 9788270996643 ; , s. 11-28
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-
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Introduction to Volume 1 : the world before 200 CE
- 2022
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In: Literature. - Chichester : John Wiley & Sons. - 9780470671900 - 9781119775737 - 9781119775751 ; , s. 1-6
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the first volume of Literature: A World History, the authors introduce and discuss the early literatures of the world, setting the end of that initial period to about 200 CE. With the spread of writing, oral texts of particular importance to their culture eventually began to be written down, and new written texts in prose and verse began to be produced. Well before 200 CE, major literary traditions in writing had evolved in many parts of Asia, in northern Africa, and in southern Europe. Humankind and its immediate ancestors stem from Africa, and hominins of different species successively spread from there. The volume concludes with a brief consideration of important similarities and differences between some of the literatures introduced.
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-
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Kafka's The Judgement : experience-oriented reading and literary criticism
- 2021
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In: Lessons from Kafka. - Praha : Filosofia. - 9788070076811 ; , s. 285-309
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The paper focuses on Kafka's short narrative The Judgement (Das Urteil, 1912). However, although the contribution may be of some interest for the understanding of this Kafka story and of Kafka's achievement in general, The Judgement is being discussed primarily as an illustrative example. The main point of the paper is to sketch an overall perspective on the ordinary reading of literature. it is commonly believed that interpreting critics and ordinary readers basically have to perform the same task: that of understanding the meaning of the text in question. The author argues that this view seriously misconstrues the activities of both critic and reader. He also discusses, in a more tentative fashion, what one is rationally justified to demand from ordinary readings of literature performed for the sake of understanding and experiencing a literary text.
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-
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Literary Experience, Paraphrase, and the Idea of a Text
- 2007
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In my paper, I will revisit the problem of paraphrase described by Cleanth Brooks in “The Heresy of Paraphrase” (1947). A poem by the Swedish author Tomas Tranströmer (b. 1931), “Fire-Jottings” (“Eldklotter”, 1983) will be used for exemplification. I intend to stress that literary texts are meant to be read and experienced. Properties of a kind usually called formal affect the reader’s experience significantly. In the course of my argument, I will give a concise analysis of the form of the Tranströmer poem and make some observations about possible effects of the formal qualities. A literary text can be conceived of as a potential source of literary experiences. Every change in the text, for instance its replacement with a paraphrase, will inevitably alter some of its properties and hence, potentially, its effects on a reader. Although paraphrases of literary texts can have legitimate uses there is, consequently, an important sense in which literary texts cannot be paraphrased. For obvious reasons, it is also impossible to equate a literary experience with a paraphrase of it. One may question whether it is justified to push literary experience into the foreground as resolutely as I do. Does not the impossibility of literary paraphrase have to do, rather, with the inexhaustibility of the literary text itself? I will meet objections in this vein by relativizing the very idea of a text, such as it is ordinarily conceived, as resting on a metaphoric basis, and by explaining why the question of paraphrase is best addressed without the help of that metaphor.
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-
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Literary studies and human priorities
- 2011
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In: Why literary studies?. - Oslo : Novus Forlag. - 9788270996643 ; , s. 29-59
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-
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Literatures before 200 CE : concluding remarks
- 2022
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In: Literature. - Chichester : John Wiley & Sons. - 9780470671900 - 9781119775751 - 9781119775737 ; , s. 222-228
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In several cases, the literary cultures described in the first volume of Literature: A World History influenced each other more or less deeply. In particular, cultural and literary impulses going between western Asia, Egypt, and southern Europe have surfaced again and again in our history. Societies before 200 CE were of many different kinds, and literatures varied greatly in character and social function over that large time span. Purely oral literary cultures represent, themselves, a heterogeneous category. Oral literature no doubt also flourished in literary societies before 200 CE. The earliest fully developed systems of writing were difficult to use, and in societies like ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia writing and reading were typically performed by specially trained scribes. The Sanskrit literary tradition had a decidedly more religious character than its Chinese and Greco-Roman counterparts. The literary cultures themselves have comparatively little to offer of general reflection on the theory of literature.
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-
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Meaning in literature
- 2010
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In: Neohelicon. - : Springer Verlag. - 0324-4652 .- 1588-2810. ; 37:2, s. 433-439
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The concept of meaning is often treated as if it were a unitary concept, also when it is used about literature. Yet literary meaning is not all of a kind, and hence one cannot generalize about its overall characteristics. What is commonly called meaning in literature comprises a number of separate phenomena. A simple distinction between linguistic meaning, applicatory meaning, and critical meaning is introduced with the help of a literary example, Edith Södergran’s poem “My Childhood Trees” (“Min barndoms träd”, 1922). The dangers of treating literary meaning as a homogeneous phenomenon are then illustrated by considering the standpoints of two theorists: Jonathan Culler, who describes literary meaning as indeterminate, and Robert Stecker, who portrays it as determinate. In reality, linguistic meaning will have to be understood as being determinate, applicatory meaning as indeterminate, and critical meaning, existing in many varieties, as sometimes the one, sometimes the other. Problems analogous to those besetting the concept of meaning also arise in connection with the critical use of several other key literary-theoretical notions, such as “literature”, “text”, “form”, and “genre”.
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-
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Meaning in Literature
- 2007
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-
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On Literary Meaning
- 2022
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In: Neohelicon. - : Springer. - 0324-4652 .- 1588-2810. ; 49:1, s. 167-181
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-
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On the concept of world literature
- 2022
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In: World Literature Studies. - Bratislava : Slovak academy of Sciences. - 1337-9690 .- 1337-9275. ; 14:3, s. 12-23
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The expression “world literature” is currently being used in several ways: about various cul-turally and temporally inclusive bodies of literature and about various ways of studying such literature. In the article, special attention is devoted to the editorial concept of world literature in The Cambridge History of World Literature (2021), edited by Debjani Ganguly. Formula-tions about world literature sometimes cast it as a mind-independent entity, sometimes as a scholarly construction. It is argued that the choice between these alternatives is important, since it has significant consequences for the logic of thinking and reasoning about world literature.
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-, et al.
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Présentation
- 2010
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In: Diogène. - Paris : Presses Universitaires de France. - 0419-1633 .- 2077-5253. ; :1/229-230, s. 3-5
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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-
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Reply to Wilkinson
- 2021
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In: American Society for Aesthetics Graduate E-Journal. - : American Society for Aesthetics. - 1946-1879. ; 13:1, s. 23-24
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