Horror has been one of the most popular forms of entertainment for centuries. Stephen King's horr... more Horror has been one of the most popular forms of entertainment for centuries. Stephen King's horror novels are among the most widely read fiction. At the cinema, horror films are popular box office hits and they are always in demand.
In an attemt to explain the popularity of horror fiction, this study examines the genre-bound tehmes and narrative techniques that act togehter, both to evoke a sensation of horror in the preseumed audience and to transform the emotion into aesthetic pleasure.
In the first part of the study, horror as a genre is described and its themes and narrtive technikques is discussed, based on a selection of novels and films. A distniction is drawn between suspense and horror and the analyses shows how the narrative technique of the horror stoy engages the audience's feelings and creates a state of expectant uncertainty. In particular, the interrelationship of identifcation and anticipation in the act of reading and watching is analysed.
The investigation of the aesthetics devices of the horror story forms a basis for a discussion of the emotional reaction which fictional horror storis arouses in the presumed audience. The power of the fictional horror story's depition of menance and persecution to generate an enhoyable feeling of horror is analysed and related to aesthetic theories of the relationship between fiction and emotion. The study concludes with a discussion of how the genre-bound form of the fictional horror story transforms our sense of horror into and entertaining emotional experience, an aesthetic pleasure
The book explores the Gothic tradition in Swedish literature – including Swedish-language literat... more The book explores the Gothic tradition in Swedish literature – including Swedish-language literature by Finland-Swedish writers. It aims to give an overview of the development of Swedish Gothic from the Romantic age until today, and to highlight the characteristic features of the Swedish tradition of Gothic in relation to transnational developments, in particular in relation to the Anglo-American tradition. By using a contextualising comparative perspective, it highlights the most prevalent and prominent feature of Swedish Gothic, the significance of the Nordic landscape, the wilderness and local folklore.
Speglingar av feelgood. Genre, etikett eller känsla? red. Maria Nilson och Piia K. Posti, 2022
Artikeln undersöker vad som gör romantiska amerikanska julfilmer till feelgood-berättelser och va... more Artikeln undersöker vad som gör romantiska amerikanska julfilmer till feelgood-berättelser och varför vi attraheras av denna typ av berättelser.
Printed version of Bibliographical database SWED
Included authors: CJL Almqvist, PDA Atterbom, V... more Printed version of Bibliographical database SWED
Included authors: CJL Almqvist, PDA Atterbom, V Benedictsson, A Blanche, F Bremer, MJ Crusenstolpe, E Flygare-Carlén, G af Geijerstam, A Hedenstierna, S von Knorring, S Lagerlöf, AC Leffler, J Nyberg, CF Ridderstad, V Rydberg, MS Schwartz, W Stålberg, E Tegnér, Z Topelius, CA Wetterbergh
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the dissemination and reception of Swedish nineteent... more This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the dissemination and reception of Swedish nineteenth-century novels. It provides a revised history of Swedish literature in both a national and an international context. It demonstrates that 150 years ago, Sweden was primarily know for its women writers. Fredrika Bremer, Emilie Flygare-Carlén, and Marie Sophie Schwartz were bestselling novelist in both Europe and the United States from the mid-nineteenth century onward. At the same time, their male colleagues - Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Viktor Rydberg, Zacharias Topelius - attracted little attention outside Scandinavia. Thus, the findings challenge established arguments in Swedish and European literary studies by presenting new ways of understanding literary history, publishing, reception, and canonisation.
Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth ce... more Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, with a main focus on the development of Gothic from the 1990s onwards in literature, film, TV and new media. The volume gives an overview of Nordic Gothic fiction in relation to transnational developments and provides a number of case studies and in-depth analyses of individual narratives. It creates an understanding of this under-researched cultural phenomenon by showing how the narratives make visible cultural anxieties haunting the Nordic countries, their welfare systems, identities and ideologies. Nordic Gothic examines how figures from Nordic folklore function as metaphorical expressions of Gothic themes and Nordic settings are explored from perspectives such as ecocriticism and postcolonialism. The book will be of interest to researchers and post- and- undergraduate students in various fields within the Humanities.
The aim is to investigate the transnational dissemination and reception of Swedish nineteenth-cen... more The aim is to investigate the transnational dissemination and reception of Swedish nineteenth-century literature, in particular women's writing. Five case studies illustrate the rapidly changing conditions of literary tranfer during the century, and the central role played by women writers. A chapter on the Romantic poet Julia Nyberg (Euphrosyne) demonstrate the significance of poetry in both translation and reception. Two chapters on the novelists Fredrika Bremer and Emilie Flygare-Carlén highlight new aspects of the transcultural and transmedial dissemination of top-selling writers in the mid- and late 19th century. The chapter on Anne Charlotte Leffler, the premier female playwright of the Modern Breakthrough, explores the complex migration of socially radical dramas written in a minor language, Swedish. The final chapter examines the various ways in which the neo-romantic prose writer Selma Lagerlöf was put to use in different parts of Europe around 1909 - the year she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The reception of Swedish nineteenth-century novels be women writers is a success story. The Swedi... more The reception of Swedish nineteenth-century novels be women writers is a success story. The Swedish top-selling novelists in Central and Eastern Europe were Emilie Flygare-Carlén and Marie Sophie Schwartz. In the mid- and late nineteenth century, their novels were widely Circulated in German translations but also translated into local languages within the Austrian Empire, such as Hungarian Czech, and Polish. In five chapters, six scholars with expertise in Scandinavian literature and the local Central and Eastern European languages and cultures explore the remarkable reception of Flygare-Carlén and Schwartz in German, Hungarian, Czech and Polish culture.
Sigge Stark, pseudonym för Signe Björnberg, är förmodligen Sveriges mest folkkära bästsäljare gen... more Sigge Stark, pseudonym för Signe Björnberg, är förmodligen Sveriges mest folkkära bästsäljare genom tiderna. Ständigt utgiven i stora upplagor men också utskälld av krikerna och stämplad som producent av skräplitteratur. Så vad skrev Björnberg egentligen? Här belyses fenomenet Sigge Stark ut flera olika perspektiv: framgångsreceptet, berättartekniken, varför Sigge Stark-berättelserna uppfattades som skadlig läsning, vilka föreställningar och läsarbehov som tillfredsställs i hennes landsbygdsromaner, kriminalberättelser, beredskapsromaner och noveller.
Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium presents interpretations of Swedish culture, heal... more Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium presents interpretations of Swedish culture, health, politics, and religion today, as the image of Sweden is being transformed from the well-functioning but existentially bland economic wonder to a more pluralistic, fragmented, and gloomy society. The changing situation of contemporary Sweden means that the time is ripe to make a self-critical appraisal of the state of Sweden today. In six chapters, renowned Swedish scholars from film studies, literary studies, political science, religious studies, and theology give their interpretations of sin, culture, health, politics, and religion in contemporary Sweden, with a particular focus upon its cultural representation in popular media. This book will serve as a background of much of the contemporary boom of Swedish fiction, both in popular literature as well as on the silver screen.
Sprak och fiktion : - ett nordiskt symposium om relationen mellan sprakteori och skonlitteratur u... more Sprak och fiktion : - ett nordiskt symposium om relationen mellan sprakteori och skonlitteratur under 1900-talet
Nordic Journal of Francophone Studies/Revue nordique des études francophones
In the mid-19th century, Swedish women writers such as Fredrika Bremer and Emilie Flygare-Carlén ... more In the mid-19th century, Swedish women writers such as Fredrika Bremer and Emilie Flygare-Carlén wrote some of the most popular and widely disseminated European novels, while novels by their contemporary male colleagues seldom reached readers outside the Nordic countries. For international success of Swedish fiction, the dissemination of novels in German was important, as translations into other European languages were often based on German translations. The most striking exception to this pattern was the reception of Swedish literature translated into French. This article examines the reception of Swedish 19th-century novels that were directly translated into French. After an introductory survey of the general transnational reception of Swedish novels in the mid- and late 19th century, the French reception is explored in order to examine its characteristics and how it differed from the reception in other languages. After the success of the bestselling novelists Bremer and Flygare-Carlén is examined, the arbitrary distribution of Carl Jonas Love Almqvist’s and Viktor Rydberg’s stories is presented. Differences in terms of the number of French publications, translators, publishers, and places of publication are investigated. The role of Swedish mediators in the introduction of certain writers in French is emphasised, along with the possible consequences of being launched in French from Sweden by Swedish publishers, compared with those of being introduced by French mediators. Based on the Swedish case, the national perspective and the focus on Paris as the capital of letters in former studies are contested.
Horror has been one of the most popular forms of entertainment for centuries. Stephen King's horr... more Horror has been one of the most popular forms of entertainment for centuries. Stephen King's horror novels are among the most widely read fiction. At the cinema, horror films are popular box office hits and they are always in demand.
In an attemt to explain the popularity of horror fiction, this study examines the genre-bound tehmes and narrative techniques that act togehter, both to evoke a sensation of horror in the preseumed audience and to transform the emotion into aesthetic pleasure.
In the first part of the study, horror as a genre is described and its themes and narrtive technikques is discussed, based on a selection of novels and films. A distniction is drawn between suspense and horror and the analyses shows how the narrative technique of the horror stoy engages the audience's feelings and creates a state of expectant uncertainty. In particular, the interrelationship of identifcation and anticipation in the act of reading and watching is analysed.
The investigation of the aesthetics devices of the horror story forms a basis for a discussion of the emotional reaction which fictional horror storis arouses in the presumed audience. The power of the fictional horror story's depition of menance and persecution to generate an enhoyable feeling of horror is analysed and related to aesthetic theories of the relationship between fiction and emotion. The study concludes with a discussion of how the genre-bound form of the fictional horror story transforms our sense of horror into and entertaining emotional experience, an aesthetic pleasure
The book explores the Gothic tradition in Swedish literature – including Swedish-language literat... more The book explores the Gothic tradition in Swedish literature – including Swedish-language literature by Finland-Swedish writers. It aims to give an overview of the development of Swedish Gothic from the Romantic age until today, and to highlight the characteristic features of the Swedish tradition of Gothic in relation to transnational developments, in particular in relation to the Anglo-American tradition. By using a contextualising comparative perspective, it highlights the most prevalent and prominent feature of Swedish Gothic, the significance of the Nordic landscape, the wilderness and local folklore.
Speglingar av feelgood. Genre, etikett eller känsla? red. Maria Nilson och Piia K. Posti, 2022
Artikeln undersöker vad som gör romantiska amerikanska julfilmer till feelgood-berättelser och va... more Artikeln undersöker vad som gör romantiska amerikanska julfilmer till feelgood-berättelser och varför vi attraheras av denna typ av berättelser.
Printed version of Bibliographical database SWED
Included authors: CJL Almqvist, PDA Atterbom, V... more Printed version of Bibliographical database SWED
Included authors: CJL Almqvist, PDA Atterbom, V Benedictsson, A Blanche, F Bremer, MJ Crusenstolpe, E Flygare-Carlén, G af Geijerstam, A Hedenstierna, S von Knorring, S Lagerlöf, AC Leffler, J Nyberg, CF Ridderstad, V Rydberg, MS Schwartz, W Stålberg, E Tegnér, Z Topelius, CA Wetterbergh
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the dissemination and reception of Swedish nineteent... more This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the dissemination and reception of Swedish nineteenth-century novels. It provides a revised history of Swedish literature in both a national and an international context. It demonstrates that 150 years ago, Sweden was primarily know for its women writers. Fredrika Bremer, Emilie Flygare-Carlén, and Marie Sophie Schwartz were bestselling novelist in both Europe and the United States from the mid-nineteenth century onward. At the same time, their male colleagues - Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Viktor Rydberg, Zacharias Topelius - attracted little attention outside Scandinavia. Thus, the findings challenge established arguments in Swedish and European literary studies by presenting new ways of understanding literary history, publishing, reception, and canonisation.
Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth ce... more Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, with a main focus on the development of Gothic from the 1990s onwards in literature, film, TV and new media. The volume gives an overview of Nordic Gothic fiction in relation to transnational developments and provides a number of case studies and in-depth analyses of individual narratives. It creates an understanding of this under-researched cultural phenomenon by showing how the narratives make visible cultural anxieties haunting the Nordic countries, their welfare systems, identities and ideologies. Nordic Gothic examines how figures from Nordic folklore function as metaphorical expressions of Gothic themes and Nordic settings are explored from perspectives such as ecocriticism and postcolonialism. The book will be of interest to researchers and post- and- undergraduate students in various fields within the Humanities.
The aim is to investigate the transnational dissemination and reception of Swedish nineteenth-cen... more The aim is to investigate the transnational dissemination and reception of Swedish nineteenth-century literature, in particular women's writing. Five case studies illustrate the rapidly changing conditions of literary tranfer during the century, and the central role played by women writers. A chapter on the Romantic poet Julia Nyberg (Euphrosyne) demonstrate the significance of poetry in both translation and reception. Two chapters on the novelists Fredrika Bremer and Emilie Flygare-Carlén highlight new aspects of the transcultural and transmedial dissemination of top-selling writers in the mid- and late 19th century. The chapter on Anne Charlotte Leffler, the premier female playwright of the Modern Breakthrough, explores the complex migration of socially radical dramas written in a minor language, Swedish. The final chapter examines the various ways in which the neo-romantic prose writer Selma Lagerlöf was put to use in different parts of Europe around 1909 - the year she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The reception of Swedish nineteenth-century novels be women writers is a success story. The Swedi... more The reception of Swedish nineteenth-century novels be women writers is a success story. The Swedish top-selling novelists in Central and Eastern Europe were Emilie Flygare-Carlén and Marie Sophie Schwartz. In the mid- and late nineteenth century, their novels were widely Circulated in German translations but also translated into local languages within the Austrian Empire, such as Hungarian Czech, and Polish. In five chapters, six scholars with expertise in Scandinavian literature and the local Central and Eastern European languages and cultures explore the remarkable reception of Flygare-Carlén and Schwartz in German, Hungarian, Czech and Polish culture.
Sigge Stark, pseudonym för Signe Björnberg, är förmodligen Sveriges mest folkkära bästsäljare gen... more Sigge Stark, pseudonym för Signe Björnberg, är förmodligen Sveriges mest folkkära bästsäljare genom tiderna. Ständigt utgiven i stora upplagor men också utskälld av krikerna och stämplad som producent av skräplitteratur. Så vad skrev Björnberg egentligen? Här belyses fenomenet Sigge Stark ut flera olika perspektiv: framgångsreceptet, berättartekniken, varför Sigge Stark-berättelserna uppfattades som skadlig läsning, vilka föreställningar och läsarbehov som tillfredsställs i hennes landsbygdsromaner, kriminalberättelser, beredskapsromaner och noveller.
Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium presents interpretations of Swedish culture, heal... more Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium presents interpretations of Swedish culture, health, politics, and religion today, as the image of Sweden is being transformed from the well-functioning but existentially bland economic wonder to a more pluralistic, fragmented, and gloomy society. The changing situation of contemporary Sweden means that the time is ripe to make a self-critical appraisal of the state of Sweden today. In six chapters, renowned Swedish scholars from film studies, literary studies, political science, religious studies, and theology give their interpretations of sin, culture, health, politics, and religion in contemporary Sweden, with a particular focus upon its cultural representation in popular media. This book will serve as a background of much of the contemporary boom of Swedish fiction, both in popular literature as well as on the silver screen.
Sprak och fiktion : - ett nordiskt symposium om relationen mellan sprakteori och skonlitteratur u... more Sprak och fiktion : - ett nordiskt symposium om relationen mellan sprakteori och skonlitteratur under 1900-talet
Nordic Journal of Francophone Studies/Revue nordique des études francophones
In the mid-19th century, Swedish women writers such as Fredrika Bremer and Emilie Flygare-Carlén ... more In the mid-19th century, Swedish women writers such as Fredrika Bremer and Emilie Flygare-Carlén wrote some of the most popular and widely disseminated European novels, while novels by their contemporary male colleagues seldom reached readers outside the Nordic countries. For international success of Swedish fiction, the dissemination of novels in German was important, as translations into other European languages were often based on German translations. The most striking exception to this pattern was the reception of Swedish literature translated into French. This article examines the reception of Swedish 19th-century novels that were directly translated into French. After an introductory survey of the general transnational reception of Swedish novels in the mid- and late 19th century, the French reception is explored in order to examine its characteristics and how it differed from the reception in other languages. After the success of the bestselling novelists Bremer and Flygare-Carlén is examined, the arbitrary distribution of Carl Jonas Love Almqvist’s and Viktor Rydberg’s stories is presented. Differences in terms of the number of French publications, translators, publishers, and places of publication are investigated. The role of Swedish mediators in the introduction of certain writers in French is emphasised, along with the possible consequences of being launched in French from Sweden by Swedish publishers, compared with those of being introduced by French mediators. Based on the Swedish case, the national perspective and the focus on Paris as the capital of letters in former studies are contested.
Sprak och fiktion : - ett nordiskt symposium om relationen mellan sprakteori och skonlitteratur u... more Sprak och fiktion : - ett nordiskt symposium om relationen mellan sprakteori och skonlitteratur under 1900-talet
Translating the Literatures of Small European Nations, 2020
The chapter centres on a comparative study of the international reception of two Swedish women wr... more The chapter centres on a comparative study of the international reception of two Swedish women writers, the Romantic poet, Julia Nyberg, and the best-selling novelist, Emilie Flygare-Carlén, using their examples to highlight the different opportunities for disrupting the balance between small and major, and presenting gender, genre and nationality as key factors in the process of attaining an international readership for not only Swedish, but also writers from other small nations. The chapter concludes by arguing that both writers had the potential to enter the international literary mainstream, but through reception and promotion were progressively removed from the centre into an increasingly gendered context, the ladies’ room in the peripheral history of Swedish literature.
Gunlog Kolbe, Om konsten att konstruera en kvinna. Retoriska strategier i 1800-talets radgivare o... more Gunlog Kolbe, Om konsten att konstruera en kvinna. Retoriska strategier i 1800-talets radgivare och i Marie Sophie Schwartz’s romaner : (Skrifter utgivna av Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen vid Goteborgs universitet 42). Goteborg 2001
Lars Wendelius, Rationalitet och kaos. Nedslag i svensk kriminalfiktion efter 1965 (Skrifter utgi... more Lars Wendelius, Rationalitet och kaos. Nedslag i svensk kriminalfiktion efter 1965 (Skrifter utgivna av Avdelningen for litteratursociologi vid Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen i Uppsala, 46). Gidlunds forlag. Hedemora 1999
Gundel Soderholm, Svea. En litterar kalender 1844–1907 (Skrifter utgivna av Avdelningen for litte... more Gundel Soderholm, Svea. En litterar kalender 1844–1907 (Skrifter utgivna av Avdelningen for litteratursociologi vid Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen i Uppsala, 52) : Uppsala 2007
The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic, ed. Rebecca Duncan, 2023
The chapter traces out currents in Gothic literature, film and TV-series in the Nordic region, ma... more The chapter traces out currents in Gothic literature, film and TV-series in the Nordic region, mainly Sweden, Denmark, and Norway.It combines tropes drawn from the canon of anglophone and European gothic with local issues and aesthetic traditions. It outlines a trio of recurrent concerns that structure Nordic Gothic writing, that is, those relating to the welfare state, gender inequality and ecological destruction. It also positions these in relation to wider processes of globalisation of which they can be understood in part to the regional expressions.
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In an attemt to explain the popularity of horror fiction, this study examines the genre-bound tehmes and narrative techniques that act togehter, both to evoke a sensation of horror in the preseumed audience and to transform the emotion into aesthetic pleasure.
In the first part of the study, horror as a genre is described and its themes and narrtive technikques is discussed, based on a selection of novels and films. A distniction is drawn between suspense and horror and the analyses shows how the narrative technique of the horror stoy engages the audience's feelings and creates a state of expectant uncertainty. In particular, the interrelationship of identifcation and anticipation in the act of reading and watching is analysed.
The investigation of the aesthetics devices of the horror story forms a basis for a discussion of the emotional reaction which fictional horror storis arouses in the presumed audience. The power of the fictional horror story's depition of menance and persecution to generate an enhoyable feeling of horror is analysed and related to aesthetic theories of the relationship between fiction and emotion. The study concludes with a discussion of how the genre-bound form of the fictional horror story transforms our sense of horror into and entertaining emotional experience, an aesthetic pleasure
Included authors: CJL Almqvist, PDA Atterbom, V Benedictsson, A Blanche, F Bremer, MJ Crusenstolpe, E Flygare-Carlén, G af Geijerstam, A Hedenstierna, S von Knorring, S Lagerlöf, AC Leffler, J Nyberg, CF Ridderstad, V Rydberg, MS Schwartz, W Stålberg, E Tegnér, Z Topelius, CA Wetterbergh
Papers by Yvonne Leffler
In an attemt to explain the popularity of horror fiction, this study examines the genre-bound tehmes and narrative techniques that act togehter, both to evoke a sensation of horror in the preseumed audience and to transform the emotion into aesthetic pleasure.
In the first part of the study, horror as a genre is described and its themes and narrtive technikques is discussed, based on a selection of novels and films. A distniction is drawn between suspense and horror and the analyses shows how the narrative technique of the horror stoy engages the audience's feelings and creates a state of expectant uncertainty. In particular, the interrelationship of identifcation and anticipation in the act of reading and watching is analysed.
The investigation of the aesthetics devices of the horror story forms a basis for a discussion of the emotional reaction which fictional horror storis arouses in the presumed audience. The power of the fictional horror story's depition of menance and persecution to generate an enhoyable feeling of horror is analysed and related to aesthetic theories of the relationship between fiction and emotion. The study concludes with a discussion of how the genre-bound form of the fictional horror story transforms our sense of horror into and entertaining emotional experience, an aesthetic pleasure
Included authors: CJL Almqvist, PDA Atterbom, V Benedictsson, A Blanche, F Bremer, MJ Crusenstolpe, E Flygare-Carlén, G af Geijerstam, A Hedenstierna, S von Knorring, S Lagerlöf, AC Leffler, J Nyberg, CF Ridderstad, V Rydberg, MS Schwartz, W Stålberg, E Tegnér, Z Topelius, CA Wetterbergh