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Arbete, klass och existens hos Karl Östman, sågverksfolkets diktare Labour, class, and existence in Karl Östman, the poet of the sawmill’s people
No full textInvestigates working-class author Karl Östman’s (1876–1953) ways of combining a class-perspective with rhetorical and aesthetic devices provoking a reflective reading
Redemption by offence? Literary terrorism in Flannery O’Connor
No full textFlannery O'Connor (1925-64) is a weird phenomenon of the American South: not only an ardent Catholic within the Protestant Bible Belt, but also a transgressive author of Southern Gothic, widely surpassing Faulkner in grotesque motifs and violent plots. Offence is her main strategy, virtually terrorizing the reader with detailed descriptions of brutal acts, physical defects, and bizarre behaviour. Yet, O'Connor is one of the most highly ranked of American authors. In Sweden, however, she is almost unknown. My paper deals with the reception of literary terrorism and offence as a didactic strategy for religious ends. What presumptions lie behind such a seemingly counter-productive strategy? How is this strategy grasped in previous research? In processing these questions I concentrate on O'Connor's most well known and most studied short story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the title story of her first collection (1955). It depicts a terrorist act, committed by an escaped criminal, who kills a whole family of three generations for nothing, as he contends, but the pleasure of pure meanness. To this slaughter, the narrator-author keeps a neutral distance, just registering the events. As for the significance of the text, scholars pay attention to divergent passages and aspects, also reacting differently. My focus is on their ways of reading and the function of literary terrorism as a religious didactics in the American South of the 1950s
Berättandets och läsandets konst – exemplet Hjalmar Söderberg The art of narrating and reading: the example of Hjalmar Soderberg
No full textThe issue is how narrating and reading interact in the processes of writing and reading. The ‘how’ of this double process is demonstrated by the example of a short story of the Swedish author Hjalmar Soderberg, “Tuschritnigen" [The Pen-and-Ink Drawing] (1898). The analysis shows how the textual strategies build up several different tracks of significance that conteract with one another. The basis of the analysis is reception theory (response aesthetics), but the technical terminology is limited and moved down to the critical apparatus
Anstöt och humor hos Paulus – ett Lars Ahlinskt perspektiv Offense and humour in St Paul and Lars Ahlin
No full textThe chapter deals with three articles on St Paul by the Christian and Modernist Swedish working-class author Lars Ahlin (1915–1997). The focus of Ahlin’s articles is Paul’s idea of the Christian’s low and humble worldly stance as the true meaning of the Christian holy, that is, the Incarnation of God in Christ. Thus, in Christianity low is high and high is low, and the chapter explores how this idea is developed in 1 Chorintians and Romans in a mixture of offensive and humorous diatribes. Also, the strategy of the diatribe is examined. Finally, the relevance of these Pauline ideas and strategies in Ahlin is discussed
Att konstruera en arbetarförfattare. Maria Sandel i litteraturkritiken Constructing a working-class author. Reception of Maria Sandel (1870–1927) in the press of her time
No full textAnalys av den dåtida pressens mottagande av arbetarförfattaren Maria Sandels (1870–1927) prosaverk under arbetarrörelsens genombrottstid i det tidiga 1900-talets Sverige. Arbetarlitteratur var då ett i den borgerliga offentligheten nytt och okänt fenomen som kritikerna hade svårt att benämna och förhålla sig till. Arbetarklassen och dess erfarenheter ansågs inte höra hemma i den erkända (borgerliga) kulturen. Att Maria Sandel dessutom var kvinna var ytterligare ett problem för kritikerna, eftersom det inte ansågs passande för en kvinna att skriva om de ’låga’ och tabubelagda ämnen som aktualiserades inom arbetarklassen. Samtidigt uppfattades denna främmande miljö och dessa tabubelagda ämnen som intressanta, och Sandels djärva och klassmedvetna sätt att angripa sitt stoff väckte både anstöt och fascination. Kapitlet undersöker hur kritiker försöker navigera mellan dessa spänningsfyllda poler och komma tillrätta med både klassperspektivet, det anstötliga stoffet och Maria Sandels genusroll
Snehvide vågner:Om eventyrets genkomst i Walter Benjamins kritikbegreb og i Robert Walsers ‘Schneewittchen´-enakter
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Omvändelseromanen i svensk 1900-talslitteratur : några genrereflexioner
No full textThe Novel of Conversion in Swedish Twentieth-Century Literature: Some reflections on genre The point of departure for this article is an ongoing investigation of the novel of conversion in Swedish twentieth-century literature. After discussion of an appropriate definition of the genre, its origin is located to the spiritual autobiography in the tradition of Augustine's Confessions. A number of quite heterogeneous Swedish texts are presented as representatives of the genre. As a matter of fact, the oldest of these texts, August Strindberg's Inferno (1897), stands out as the most modern (or even post-modern) of them all. This narrative of conversion certainly does not describe an unambiguous development from disbelief to belief, and every putative truth is eventually deconstructed. In comparison Unni Drougge's Regnbågens tid ("The Age of the Rainbow"), published exactly 100 years later in 1997, may give the impression of being very up-to-date as regards New Age beliefs and the latest slang words, but turns out to be be a fairly traditional novel when it comes to composition
”inte kan jag berätta allas historia?” Föreställningar om nordisk arbetarlitteratur
Full text linkDenna boks titel är hämtad ur Kristian Lundbergs vittnesmål från bemanningsföretagens tidevarv, romanen Yarden (2009). Frågan rymmer en viktig förskjutning i föreställningen om arbetarlitteraturens anspråk – från förra sekelskiftets kollektivism till 2000-talets postindustriella individualism.
Hur finns och görs klass, och hur märks detta i arbetarlitteraturen, nu som då? Hur gestaltar arbetarlitteraturen samhällets historiska och politiska förändringar, och hur påverkas den i sin tur av läsekretsens förväntningar? Detta är frågor som hela tiden måste ställas på nytt.
Volymen samlar 14 bidrag som behandlar föreställningar om den nordiska arbetarlitteraturen utifrån följande perspektiv:
arbetarlitterär tradition; genreproblem; reception, medier och offentlighet; genus och sexualitet; religion och existens. Medverkande: Beata Agrell, Christer Ekholm, Anna Forssberg, Anker Gemzøe, Christine Hamm, Carl-Eric Johansson, Bibi Jonsson, Ole Karlsen, Katarina Leppänen, Per-Olof Mattsson, Sandra Mischliwietz, Magnus Nilsson, Birthe Sjöberg och Anders Öhman
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