Department of Comparative Literature / Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap (-2008)

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    Den avväpnande förtroligheten : enaktare i Sverige 1870-90
    (1996) Lyngfelt, Anna; Göteborgs universitet, Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen
    August Strindberg s own words, implying that he was the one who began the tradition of one-acters in Sweden is considered to be true. Yet, a tradition of one-act plays in Sweden was a fact long before Strindberg took an interest in one-acters, in the late 1880's. A study of the repertoire at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm indicates that 29 Swedish one-act plays were set up between the seasons of 1869-70 and 1889-90, among them the early one-acters Strindberg wrote himself: I Rom (In Rome, 1870) and Den fredlöse (The Outlaw, 1871). All these plays are commented on and listed in the thesis. The analyses of the thesis focus on five one-acters, three of which have been played at The Royal Dramatic Theatre: Johan Grönstedts En timme på Blå porten (1871), Anne Charlotte Leffier's En räddande engel (1883) and Victoria Benedictsson's I telefon (1887). The other plays examined are Benedictsson's Romeos Julia (1888) and Strindberg s Den starkare (The Stronger, 1889). The aim of the thesis is to point out that there is interaction between dramatization in literary salons and the repertoire on public stages. By presenting the one-acters analysed here chronologically, and by showing how different kinds of traditions from literary salons were mixed and used, the thesis explains how the dramatic form became more and more concentrated during the period of the modern breakthrough. The dramatic devices that make this possible include: tableaux vivants-VikQ collages of opinions, more or less personified by examples being dramatized, repetitions of similar (but not really analogous) cases and lines similar to the ones in the proverbes dramatiques entertainments (with answers which include not only answers to the questions being made, but also new questions). This dramaturgy, combined with an interest in discussing marriage and the role of women in society, creates an intricate and sophisticated dialogue.
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    Den sinnliga uppmärksamheten: Materiellt ekokritiska läsningar av svensk prosa i antropocen
    (Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2023-05) Lindbo, Johanna
    The present study investigates literary representations of relationships between the human and the more-than-human in Swedish prose written during the second half of the twentieth century. In this compilation thesis works by various authors are explored through six articles and chapters, and a summary article serves as an extended introduction to the study’s background and result, as well as a theoretical and methodological discussion. Three of the authors occur more frequently within the different contributions; Stig Dagerman (1923–1954)), Birgitta Trotzig (1929–2011) and Mare Kandre (1962–2005). They were all active as writers during a time in geological history where the Anthropocene is understood to accelerate and thus provide a chronograph for my selection of primary material. Human understanding of the relationship between humans, the earth and the more-than-human were, and still are, affected by climate change, which also leave traces in cultural and aesthetic forms of expressions. The main aim is to study literature as a source of knowledge and portrayer of the more-than-human, and to investigate what consequences such a reading generates for the notions of subjecthood, becoming, and agency. The study shows how literature can perceive and illustrate the world in ways that challenge an anthropocentric perspective, and how literature can be understood as carrier of more-than-human narratives. The theoretical framework consists of combined fields and concepts within posthumanism, new materialism, indigenous knowledge, and material ecocriticism. The main theoretical approach, material ecocriticism, is an eclectic and curious field that combines studies of literature with concepts from biology, philosophy, and geology. By directing my attention to the more-than-human, I conduct a reading practice inspired by Robin Wall Kimmerer’s and Daniel R. Wildcat’s notion of attentiveness, which I combine with metaphor analysis. The most important recurring concepts in the thesis are agency, intra-action, storied matter, becoming and porosity, which all contribute to the readings by illuminate different approaches to more-than-human and matter as creative. This creativity is traceable in the metamorphic relationship between the human and the organic as well as non-organic surroundings when studied through a material ecocritical perspective. Keywords: agency, air, Andrzej Tichý, becoming, being of the world, Birgitta Trotzig, colonialism, indigenous knowledge, intra-action, landscape, Mare Kandre, matter, material ecocriticism, metaphor, more-than-human, new materialism, plants, porosity, sand, Sara Stridsberg, sensuous attention, Stig Dagerman, stone, storied matter, water