Category: Literature

Strindbergs Ockulta Dagboken för första gången utgiven i engelsk översättning

17 January, 2023

Ockulta Dagboken – The Occult Diary – är en personlig dokumentation av tolv år i en av Sveriges mest lästa, spelade, omdiskuterade och utforskade författares liv – August Strindberg. Boken tillgängliggör för första gången hela Strindbergs dagbok för en internationell publik. Vi har ställt några frågor till utgivaren Per Stam. Åren mellan 1896–1908 var betydelsefulla … More Strindbergs Ockulta Dagboken för första gången utgiven i engelsk översättning

August Strindberg’s The Occult Diary – now for the first time in English

19 December, 2022

August Strindberg (1849–1912) kept a diary from February 1896 in Paris until the summer of 1908 in Stockholm. He referred to his diary from this period as his Occult Diary. The diary initiates the reader into the writer’s inner world during a crucial transitional period in his personal and literary life. It documents his readings … More August Strindberg’s The Occult Diary – now for the first time in English

New Monograph: Framing the Nation, Claiming the Hemisphere

10 November, 2022

Framing the Nation, Claiming the Hemisphere: Transnational Imagination in Early American Travel Writing (1770–1830) examines the national and transnational imagination in travel reports by American authors written between 1770 and 1830. Read about the North American “interior”, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. These decades were times of shifting colonial boundaries, nation-building, and emergent discourses … More New Monograph: Framing the Nation, Claiming the Hemisphere

Ny bok undersöker den svenska skönlitteraturens framgångar i Frankrike

24 February, 2022

Den franska bokmarknaden har en särskild betydelse för det världslitterära systemet. Flödet av litteratur från Sverige till Frankrike liknar heller inget annat. I monografin Ord från norr. Svensk skönlitteratur på den franska bokmarknaden efter 1945 beskrivs hur svensk skönlitteratur har översatts till franska, med ett särskilt fokus på tiden efter 1945. … More Ny bok undersöker den svenska skönlitteraturens framgångar i Frankrike

New Book: Narratives Crossing Borders: The Dynamics of Cultural Interaction

16 June, 2021

What happens with stories when they are transmitted from one place to another, when they are retold, remade, translated and retranslated? What happens with the scholars themselves, when they try to grapple with the kaleidoscopic diversity of human expression in a constantly changing world? These and related questions are explored in the chapters of this … More New Book: Narratives Crossing Borders: The Dynamics of Cultural Interaction

New Book from Stockholm University Press: Invoking Flora Nwapa

17 November, 2020

Download the book at Stockholm University Press About the book This new book is written by Paula Uimonen and explores the revival of Flora Nwapa’s fame as the pioneer of African women’s literature, based on fieldwork at the Efuru@50 celebration in Nigeria. It is written in an experimental style, and shows how literary worldmaking creates … More New Book from Stockholm University Press: Invoking Flora Nwapa

Stockholm University Press publishes its 20th Open Access book: World Literatures: Exploring the Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Exchange #oabooks #peerreview

26 November, 2018

We are happy to announce that Stockholm University press publishes its 20th fully Open Access book, the edited volume: World Literatures: Exploring the Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Exchange, edited by Stefan Helgesson, Annika Mörte Alling, Yvonne Lindqvist, and Helena Wulf. Questioning the paradigm of World Literatures Placing itself within the burgeoning field of world literary studies, the organising principle of … More Stockholm University Press publishes its 20th Open Access book: World Literatures: Exploring the Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Exchange #oabooks #peerreview

New book from Stockholm University Press: The Power of the In-Between: Intermediality as a Tool for Aesthetic Analysis and Critical Reflection #oabooks

2 October, 2018

How can the concept of intermediality be understood and used in the humanities? The Power of the In-Between: Intermediality as a Tool for Aesthetic Analysis and Critical Reflection gathers fourteen case studies where different intermedial issues are explored. The participating researchers investigate phenomena such as contemporary installation art, twentieth-century geography books, renaissance sculpture, media theory, … More New book from Stockholm University Press: The Power of the In-Between: Intermediality as a Tool for Aesthetic Analysis and Critical Reflection #oabooks

Happy #AcademicBookWeek #WomenWriters #Diversity

25 April, 2018

Stockholm University Press would like to contribute to #AcademicBookWeek, and present three of our books and their author(s)/editors to celebrate also #WomenWriters and #Diversity. By Christina Lenz, Managing Editor and Communications Manager University Presses are all about #AcademicBooks As an University Press all our published books are academic, #OpenAccess and have been through rigorous #PeerReview. … More Happy #AcademicBookWeek #WomenWriters #Diversity

Latest SUP book puts class back on the agenda

31 January, 2018

Class as a concept has taken a back seat in the debate but also as an academic subject, says Magnus Nilsson, from Malmö University. He hopes to bring class back to the agenda, but also widen the concept and bring it up to date, with the new anthology Working-Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives, co-edited … More Latest SUP book puts class back on the agenda