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1. 16. “One of the Most Intensely Exciting Secrets” : The Antarctic in American Literature, 1820-1849

   Författare :Johan Wijkmark; Åke Bergvall; Mark Troy; Orm Øverland; Karlstads universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Adam Seaborn; Symzonia; James Fenimore Cooper; Monikins; Sea Lions; Edgar Allan Poe; “MS. Found in a Bottle; ” Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym; Peter Prospero; “The Atlantis; ” Antarctic literature; 19th-century American literature; utopia; Symmes; hollow earth; evolution; great chain of being; race; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; Engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This study examines a small body of 19th-century American literature about the Antarctic: Adam Seaborn's (pseud.) Symzonia (1820), Edgar Allan Poe's "MS. Found in a Bottle" (1833) and The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), Peter Prospero's (pseud. LÄS MER

3. 17. Samtalets möjligheter : Om litteratursamtal och litteraturreception i skolan

   Författare :Michael Tengberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literature discussions; literary reception; book talk; literature education; interaction; interaction analysis; classroom discourse; reader-response theory; reception study; didactics; forms of reading; literature instruction; teaching of literature; meta-cognition; reading research; dialogue; immergence; video analysis; Comparative Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; literature discussions; literary reception; book talk; literature education; interaction; interaction analysis; classroom discourse; reader-response theory; reception study; didactics; forms of reading; literature instruction; teaching of literature; meta-cognition; reading research; dialogue; immergence; video analysis;

   Sammanfattning : The objective of this dissertation is literature discussion as a learning activity in school. The aim is to examine the conditions under which literature discussions may help students to develop their reception of a commonly read text, and to examine whether, and how, the discussions may provide the students with opportunities to learn more about, or to develop specific attitudes or perspectives towards, literary reading in general. LÄS MER

4. 18. A World of Myths : World Literature and Storytelling in Canongate's Myths series

   Författare :Malin Nauwerck; Johan Professor; Paula Docent; Torbjörn Forslid; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sociology of Literature; World Literature; Book History; Publishing Studies; Sociology of Translation; Marketing; Storytelling; Book Trade; Metafiction; 21st Century; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis discusses contemporary publishing within the global, literary system through the prism of the transnational publishing project the Myths series, initiated by Scottish publishing house Canongate Books in 2005. By combining the perspectives of world literature studies and sociology of literature, I explore the conception, development and communication around the Myths series (today published in forty countries) in relation firstly to the contemporary changes in the publishing industry, situated within a more general literary debate on globalisation and cultural diversity and secondly the rise of a social order epitomised under the umbrella term “new economy”, in which the practice of strategic communication or marketing storytelling has become increasingly common. LÄS MER

5. 19. Hemsökt barndom : Bilder av barnet i gotisk barnlitteratur

   Författare :Peter Kostenniemi; Elina Druker; Magnus Öhrn; Maria Andersson; Christensen Nina; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; gothic children’s literature; children’s literature; Scandinavian literature; childhood; subjectivity; high modernity; technologies of power; technologies of the self; governmentality; self-governing; agency; growth; the competent child; gothic other; litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

   Sammanfattning : The 21st century has seen an increase in the publication of Gothic literature for children and young adults. The aim of this study is to explore this development and to discuss images of the child in Scandinavian Gothic fiction for children in relation to ideas about childhood in a contemporary context. LÄS MER

7. 20. Den kroppsliga läsningen : Bildningsperspektiv på litteraturundervisning

   Författare :Djamila Fatheddine; Per Bäckström; Christina Olin-Scheller; Silwa Claesson; Eva Hultin; Karlstads universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Reading literature; Literature education; Embodiment; Bildung; Hermeneutics; Phenomenology; Comparative Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis explores aspects of reading literature, embodiment and Bildung with a specific focus on literature education in compulsory school. The main purpose of this study is to discuss and problematize literature education in Swedish compulsory schools by focusing on embodiment and Bildung. LÄS MER