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    Bara en slät yta av skinn? Framställning av kön i John Ajvide Lindqvists roman och Jakob Hultcrantz Hanssons adaption Låt den rätte komma in
    (2012-11-08) Kostenniemi, Peter; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion
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    Ghettoiserade Vampyrer. En studie av barnvampyrlitteratur och dess betydelse för vampyrlitteraturgenren
    (2013-03-27) Kostenniemi, Peter; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion
    Abstract Master’s Thesis in Comparative literature Title: Ghettoiserade Vampyrer. En studie av barnvampyrlitteratur och dess betydelse för vampyrlitteraturgenren (Ghettoized Vampires. A study of children’s vampire literature and its significance for the vampire literature genre) Writer: Peter Kostenniemi Department of Literature, History of Ideas and Religion Supervisor: Anna Nordenstam Examiner: Yvonne Leffler Key Words: Vampire literature, children’s literature, Der kleine Vampir, Nattens Børn In vampire literature research the focus usually lies on adult and, to some extent, young adult fiction. Children’s vampire fiction is seldom addressed and when it is, the conclusions are that the vampire in it is kind and unharmful. To view children’s literature as a category by itself is to ghettoize it from adult literature and that is what often occurs in vampire literature research; children’s vampire fiction is seen as first and foremost children’s literature and not vampire literature. The aim of this theis is, in accordance to the hermeneutics of Paul Rioeur, to decontexualize three works of children’s vampire fiction as children’s literature and recontextualize them as vampire literature. The three works are the series Der kleine Vampir (The Little Vampire) (1979–2008), the series Nattens Børn (Children of the Night) (2006) and The Vampire Hunter’s Handbook (2007). With the use of Gérard Genettes categories of transtextuality the analyzis views the vampire in these works as both good and evil, both harmful and unharmful. Der kleine Vampir also combines characteristics of the ‘old vampire’ from the 1900th century with a contemporary context, something that serves as a metatextual commentary to the rise of the modern vampire. The portrayal of vampires in Der kleine Vampir serves as an anti-thesis of vampires such as Louis in Anne Rice’ Interview with the Vampire. Der kleine Vampir and Nattens Børn is also about a lovestory between a human being and a vampire, but the relation is viewed differently from vampire romances such as The Twilight Saga. In vampire romances the vampires are represented as male objects of perfection, very much alive and eternally young. In Der kleine Vampir and Nattens Børn the female vampire is portrayed as being both dead and alive, both eternally young and aging and constitutes a connection between femininity, death and aging that is reoccurring in vampire romances. The vampires Rüdiger and Anna in Der kleine Vampir transgress the borders between the vampire world and the human society and serves to develop a common genre convention in works such as The Southern Vampire Mysteries and the tv series Being Human where these borders are challenged. The conclusion of the thesis is that the children’s vampire literature should not be ghettoized from the vampire literature genre, but instead integrated in it. When this is done it is possible to see that the children’s vampire literature is not only influenced by the vampire literature genre but also serves to influence
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    Hemsökta gränser. En studie av gotisk barnfiktion och dess position i den gotiska genren
    (2014-05-27) Kostenniemi, Peter; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion
    Although research on gothic fiction has given limited attention to children’s fiction, the last two decades have witnessed an increasing interest. To date the focus has been mainly on English literature with a recurring tendency to define children’s gothic fiction as a text corpus separate from gothic fiction in general. As a result, children’s gothic fiction has become isolated and is not considered as part of the gothic genre, neither the literature nor its adaptations. The aim of this study is to view children’s gothic fiction as an integral part of the gothic genre. With the use of Paul Ricoeurs hermeneutics earlier research on children’s gothic fiction is discussed and its definition as a separate corpus is challenged. Border crossing is established as a gothic convention and serves as a thematic perspective in the analysis. In a series of short stories by Dan Höjer, the border between the natural and the supernatural is blurred provoking feelings of uncertainty and the uncanny. In Allan Rune Pettersson’s novel Frankensteins faster (1978), a conflict between rationality and irrationality is at the heart of the story. A tv-series based on the novel allows rationality to triumph, but Pettersson’s sequel reverses the positions. The conflict, thus, enters the dialogic relationship between novels and adaptations as well. In Angela Sommer-Bodenburgs Der kleine Vampir (1979–2008) human identity is challenged and this is represented with the use of gothic clap-traps such as mirrors and dreams. In a tv-series based on the first two novels, the border between the human world and the gothic realm is minimized and later on, in a film, that border is obliterated. The analysis of the literature and the adaptations reveals complex qualities in children’s gothic fiction and argues for the necessity of viewing it as an integral part of the gothic genre in general.
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    Människa eller karikatyr? En jämförelse mellan pastor Manders i Henrik Ibsens Gengangere och pastor Manders i Ingmar Bergmans översättning och bearbetning av samma pjäs.
    (2012-11-08) Kostenniemi, Peter; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
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    Meningens motstånd. 29 studenters perspektiv på humaniora
    (Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion, Göteborgs universitet, 2014-10-05) Alarcón, Meri; Amundsen Bergström, Matilda; Kaveh, Tania; Pettersen, Vilde Andrea; Jagemark, Lisa; Karlsson, Moa; Juliusson, Carl Magnus; Leffler, Olof; Vikström, Ylva; Andersson, Alexander; Allzén, Simon; Wollter, Sebastian; Lindbo, Johanna; Ramberg, Jens; Lindh, Mattias; Westberg, Anders; Wedin, Robert; Martinsson, Lars; Emanuelsson, Jimmy; Kostenniemi, Peter; Egerzon, Tobias; Svensson, Therese; Jirenfelt, Helena; Lindström, Miranda; Falk, Linus; Möller, Mirjam; Kåregård, Ingrid; Lingaas Türk, Johanna; Andersson, Martin; Andersson, Viktor; Alarcón, Meri; Amundsen Bergström, Matilda; Kaveh, Tania; Pettersen, Vilde Andrea; Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion, Göteborgs universitet
    Många röster har på senare tid uppmärksammat att dagens humaniora är i kris. Marginaliserad av en ointresserad offentlighet, ifrågasatt av andra vetenskapliga discipliner, stundtals betvivlad även av humanister själva. Men hur står det egentligen till med denna påstådda krissituation? Och hur upplever studenterna, en omistlig men i debatten ofta åsidosatt grupp, humaniora och humanistiska studier? I antologin Meningens motstånd presenterar 29 studenter verksamma vid Göteborgs Universitet sina perspektiv på humaniora, i ett försök att komplicera och nyansera bilden av detta ständigt omdebatterade vetenskapliga fält. Antologin är en mångfacetterad samling texter, där kärleksfulla försvarstal blandas med brännande kritik och konstruktiva förändringsförslag. Inga enkla svar ges, men i sex tematiska kapitel introduceras nya infallsvinklar både vad gäller humanioras dåtid, nutid och framtid. Sammantaget lyckas skribenterna därmed om inte utrota idén om humanioras kris så definitivt skapa nytt hopp för framtiden.
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    Protection and Agency in Children’s Gothic. Multiple Childhood(s) in Angela Sommer­Bodenburg’s Der kleine Vampir
    (LIR. journal, 2017) Kostenniemi, Peter
    The child in gothic fiction is often interpreted as a symbol of adult fears, and childhood in this context is therefore stripped of intentionality. This article discusses the representation of childhood as performed through acts of agency in children’s gothic fiction, with Angela Sommer-Bodenburg’s famous novel series Der kleine Vampir as a case study. Previous research into the novel series has focused primarily on the human protagonist, the boy Anton Bohnsack, and neglected childhood as performed by the vampire children Rüdiger and Anna. These two characters diverge from previous representations of vampires within the vampire sub-genre and challenge the very concept of childhood. In terms of space made available for agency, the human sphere differs from the vampire sphere. Whilst the former emphasizes protective measures on behalf of the child the latter seems to emphasize agency. However, there is a dialectic relation between the two spheres. Neither protection nor agency is favoured, instead Der kleine Vampir offers the possi - bili ty of a fusion between them through a number of different images of childhood, or rather, multiple childhoods.
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    Tandlösa och vasstandade vampyrer. Performativt genus i Angela Sommer-Bodenburgs berättelser om den lilla vampyren
    (2012-11-08) Kostenniemi, Peter; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion