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6. Vår tids ledare : en studie av den svenska dagspressens politiska opinionsbildning
Sammanfattning : The objective of this dissertation is to audit political opinion making by the Swedish press on the editorial pages by analyzing editorial production conditions and content and the role of the editorial in local democracy. Three main questions are of central interest in this effort: By whom are editorials written and what guides the work of the editorial writers? What is written in editorials? Who reads editorials and what role do editorials play in local democracy? These questions may be said to be linked to a journalistic scholarly ambition to illuminate a trend within the journalistic genre where in the relationship between the press and the party no longer seems to be playing the same role for editorial writers and editorials. LÄS MER
7. We Call upon the Author : Contemporary Biofiction and Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sammanfattning : This thesis studies fictional representations of Fyodor Dostoevsky in contemporary biofiction. The aim of the study is to present an intermedial theoretical framework for biofiction, a genre defined as fictional biographical and often metafictional narratives in which a biographical subject serves as the focal point for the story or plays a role integral to the narrative. LÄS MER
8. "Honourable" or "Highly-sexed" : Adjectival Descriptions of Male and Female Characters in Victorian and Contemporary Children's Fiction
Sammanfattning : This corpus-based study examines adjectives and adjectival expressions used to describe characters in British children’s fiction. The focus is on diachronic variation, by comparing Victorian (19th-century) and contemporary (late 20th-century) children’s fiction, and on gender variation, by comparing the descriptions of female and male characters. LÄS MER
9. The Global Art World, Inc. : On the globalization of contemporary art
Sammanfattning : This study examines certain segments of the art world-system in which geographical distances seemed to vanishing as a result of faster and more intense interaction levels. This particular art world-system has been conceptualized in contradictory ways. LÄS MER
10. Epistolarity in a Post-Letter World : Five Contemporary American Case Studies
Sammanfattning : The rapid development of digital communication technologies over the past three decades has given rise to faster and more immediate forms of interpersonal communication, which, in turn, have brought an experience of reduced spatiotemporal distance between correspondents. Alongside these developments, epistolarity has made a powerful return in contemporary literature; a trend that has scholars of the form calling for new approaches. LÄS MER
