Published in European Journal of Scandinavian Studies
In the present study, we investigate how the relationship between human and nature is rendered as Norwegian children’s book author Maria Parr’s novel Keeperen og havet [Lena, the Sea and me] is translated into Danish, English, French, German, and Swedish. Our focus is mainly on book cover images, and methodologically we use concepts and tools from ...
This article studies mediated erotic content, especially pornography, as a form of worlding in Michel Houellebecq’s work. Whereas love creates a space of alterity, pornography paradoxically combines the most intimate spatiality of the body with ever-expanding technological systems and global forms of mediation. This short-circuiting of space points...
This article analyses aesthetical–political strategies for the promotion of class consciousness among workers in a few examples of contemporary Swedish working-class literature from different genres that describe and criticize precarious working conditions. Special attention is given to how these texts engage in dialogue with the notion of the prec...
This article analyses aesthetical–political strategies for the promotion of class consciousness among workers in a few examples of contemporary Swedish working-class literature from different genres that describe and criticize precarious working conditions. Special attention is given to how these texts engage in dialogue with the notion of the prec...
This essay is a contribution to literary history that explores Edgar Allan Poe’s criticism of the transcendentalist movement and its key figure Ralph Waldo Emerson through an analysis of the short stories “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “Never Bet the Devil Your Head.” By using genre criticism to define aspects of the Gothic genre, Poe’s criti...
Följande arbete syftar till att analysera bilderböcker som vunnit Augustpriset med fokus på karaktärernas genusframställning. Böckerna har analyserats genom en kvalitativ bild- och textanalys där fokus varit genus och kön. Det är inte bara det biologiska könet som spelat roll i analysen, utan mycket handlar om de handlingar som karaktärerna utför o...
This study aims to identify and evaluate how teachers effectively can bring literature to life in the EFL classroom and promote high school students’ engagement and understanding of the text. Through a comprehensive literature review and analysis of empirical data, this study will provide recommendations for teachers on how to enhance the teaching ...
It is well-known that Kafka had a great fascination with the possibilities and transience of the physical body, as evidenced in his various literary works. Using the theory of "the uncanny", The essay interprets and investigates how and what Kafka writes about others' bodies, as well as his own. It turns out that women's appearances are observed an...
This essay explores how adolescent girls in two pieces of children’s fiction are portrayed in children’s literature from the start and end of the 20th century to examine how they perform their gender in relation to expectations as informed by the Angel in the House discourse. Anne of Green Gables and the Harry Potter series were published at the st...
Studiens syfte är att undersöka hur elevers bokval påverkar lärares arbete med litteratur i klassrummet och vilka möjligheter det finns att skapa läslust i samarbetet mellan skolbibliotekarie och lärare. Resultatet bygger på intervjuer med två lärare i årskurs 2 och en skolbibliotekarie. Elevers val av böcker har synliggjorts genom en insamling av ...
