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  1. 6. Skogsrået, näcken och Djävulen : erotiska naturväsen och demonisk sexualitet i 1600- och 1700-talens Sverige

    Författare :Mikael Häll; Historia; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; nature spirit; demon; sexuality; devil; forest nymph; water spirit; troll; monster; incubus; succubus; magic; early modern; Sweden; popular belief; folklore; demonology; natural philosophy; witchcraft; bestiality; reformation; religion; crime; sin;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines conceptions of erotic nature spirits and their association with demonic sexuality in 17th and 18th century Sweden. Its purpose is to reconstruct the various cultural and symbolic meanings which such notions had for the society of the day. LÄS MER

  2. 7. Den ensamma sjöjungfrun : Om Carina Rydbergs jagberättande ur ett genreperspektiv

    Författare :Tamara Andersson; Maria Jönsson; Elisabeth Hästbacka; Annelie Bränström Öhman; Anna Forssberg; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Carina Rydberg; autofiction; autobiography; identity narrative; the Gothic; female Gothic; genre; Swedish literature; identity; gender; sex; femininity; monstrosity; female authors; transgression; the uncanny; intelligibility; Carina Rydberg; autofiktion; självbiografi; jagberättande; gotik; genre; svensk litteratur; identitet; genus; kön; femininitet; monster; kvinnliga författare; författarroll; transgression; det kusliga; das Unheimliche; begriplighet; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; gender studies; genusvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The focus of this study is the two autobiographical novels Den högsta kasten (1997) and Djävulsformeln (2000) by Swedish author Carina Rydberg. Both novels generated lively public debate regarding how they ought to be read and understood, what genre they belonged to, and the ontological status of the narrating “I”. LÄS MER

  3. 8. De mörka labyrinterna : Gotiken i litteratur, film, musik och rollspel

    Författare :Mattias Fyhr; Jönköping University; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gotik; gotisk roman; gotisk litteratur; skräckromantik; skräck; Inger Edelfeldt; Mare Kandre; Per Hagman; Alexander Ahndoril; Nikanor Teratologen; Magnus Dahlström; Bruno K Öijer; Åsa Grennvall; Horace Walpole; Ann Radcliffe; Matthew Gregory Lewis; Mary Shelley; Charles Maturin; Edgar Allan Poe; Lovecraft; Bret Easton Ellis; Neil Gaiman; Lovecraft; The Cure; Cortex; The Damned; Emperor; Fields of the Nephilim; Freddie Wadling; Joy Division; Sisters of Mercy; Lucio Fulci goth; vampyrer; monster; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  4. 9. Navigating Female Power : (De-) Constructing the Space of the Immortal Threat in Homer’s Odyssey

    Författare :Paulina Partanen; Gabriella Beer; Jörgen Magnusson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Homer; Odyssey; Queer; Queer theory; Power; Space; Spatial analysis; Sexuality; Gender; Judith Butler; Jack Halberstam; Kim Knott; Circe; Calypso; Sirens; Scylla; Charybdis; Greek Myth; Monster.; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to locate spatial manifestations of power, and acts of agency, by conducting a subversive reading of the female immortal threats in Homer’s Odyssey. With an aim to question preconceived notions on sexuality, gender and power, I draw on the theoretical perspectives of gender theorists J. Butler and J. LÄS MER

  5. 10. Marknaden som mönster och monster : Ekonomiska experter och nyheter om ekonomi i Rapport 1978-1998

    Författare :Dino Viscovi; Växjö universitet; []
    Nyckelord :television; news media; economy; discourse analysis; economists; experts; globalization; capitalism; disembedded economy;

    Sammanfattning : The two starting points of the thesis are (i) a structual change, i.e. the disembedding or globaliza¬tion of the Swedish economy, and (ii) a discursive change in economics, more specifically the orientation from Keynesianism to neo-classical economics. LÄS MER