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An attempt is made to account for the development of the Swedish perfect tense. The analysis is based on Kuiylowicz’s theory on the origin of temporal categories. The Swedish perfect tense is derived from periphrastic present constructions which denote present states resulting from past events. The constructions tend to develop the temporal meaning of Past (Praeteritality while gradually reducing...
Erik Lindegren’s volume 'mannen utan vag' ('the man without a way’, 1942/1945) is considered the most significant work of the Swedish 40s. The volume consists of forty sonnets. They are identical as regards their form, but the traditional structure of sonnet has been 'blown up' here. Such a new form, which combines pure harmony and disintegration, corresponds with the created reality: a world contaminated...
The present article develops some of the ideas contained in my MA-thesis Ordsprak i modem svenska... This article deals with analysis of proverbs as open formulae in Modem Swedish. It refers to a research done on two data corpora consisting of newspaper material and on some other newspaper articles and advertisements from the years 1997-2004. In the written sources of Swedish proverbs available today...
The paper presents main trends in the contemporary Swedish and Danish postmodern poetry represented by the generation of poets who made their debut in the 1980s. In the author’s opinion the poems are characterised by the diffuse persona of the speaker, rich intertextuality, the blending of literary genres and the focus on poetic language exposed to various experiments and analyses. For a postmodern...
The aim of this article is to present Bruno K. Oijer’s (b.1951) poetry as a way of addressing the Muse, and himself as a Muse poet, as defined in Robert Graves’ The White Goddess, wh ich Oijer often referred to in many of his utterances. Numerous references to the book are made in order to shed light on the aspect of mother and child, as well as the poet's return to his birthplace, which are most...
Carl-Johan Vallgren, the writer and musician bom in 1964. has published eight books and released five records with his own lyrics and music. His novel called Den vidunderliga karlekens historia (The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot, His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred) proved a spectacular success in 2002. The media describe him sometimes as „the least Swedish...
An analysis o f articles about Sweden which have appeared in the Polish press from 1989 to 1999 makes it possible to distinguish the most frequent subjects chosen by Polish journalists. These subjects include the unsolved case of the assassination of Olof Palme, the drawbacks of the Swedish welfare state, the controversies connected with Swedish neutrality, the discussions on how far equality can...
National identity, in the meaning of a need to define oneself as a member of a nation and to characterize one's nation, is not constant. It increases during crises and transformations in state and society, and decreases in periods of stabilisation. In the case of Sweden, the research on the natłonal character and identity flourished in the 19th and the early 20th century, which was crucial time politically,...
The thesis of the article is that contemporary Finnish national identity has its roots in the nation's agrarism past. The article focuses on several of the most crutcial Finnish identity elements: the Kalevala and folkpoetry in generał as 'national history", naturę love, late migration to cities (1960's and 1970's), hard work as source of esteem, sisu, psychological traits common among Finns,...
The aim of the article is to describe and analyse the principal types and strategies of role-playing in August Strindberg's autobiographical novel A Madman's Defence (1887-88). The starting point of this study is the assumption that the main characters in the novel - Axel (Strindberg's alter ego) and Maria - consciously play with masks in order to delude and manipulate people. The following analysis...
The Swedish newspaper market has been traditionally very strong both in terms of circulation and advertising revenues. Thus, the country has always been placed close to tbe top in newspaper consumption in Europę. The following article is an attempt to give an overview of the newspaper market in toda/s Sweden, with its traditional division and major features. Special emphasis is laid on those phenomena...
The paper constitutes an analysis of the poetry of Birgitta Lillpers in the context of the postmodern break-up of traditional definitions of literary genres. The characteristic features of the Swedish poet's work are ambiguity, fragmentation, and a diffuse persona of the speaker. Lillpers' poetry is rich in lexical, semantic and syntactic experimentation.
Swedish EU-access in January 1995 triggered off a widespread linguistic debatę on the futurę of the Swedish language in the united Europę. Despite its status as one of the Union's ofRcial languages, Swedish is often referred to as a minority language threatened by English. The debatę mentions current language policies of the E U , linguistic and non-linguistic aspects of the influence of one language...
The word „limit" has become one of the keywords of modern Swedish poetry, in which it is connected with different poetic determinants. An analysis of the poetry of Katarina Frostenson and Stig Larsson leads to the conclusion that in this age of deconstruction, inter-textuality and postmodemism, among other new literary phenomena, poetry as art has lost its traditional limits. The modern Swedish...
It is highly characteristic of the Swedish postmodern fiction that it is trying to destroy the differences between pure fiction and reahty, between the action taking place and the narration itself, only the bare bone hyperreality should remain. The meetings between the fictitious and the real existing persons must be seen as an attempt to take a fmal step beyond this border. There exists no absolute...
The comparison of spatial prepositions in Polish and Swedish is based on the assumption that spatial exponents of different languages represent a common conceptual system, a kind of elementary geometry. The common universe consists of DISTANCE, DIMENSIONS, INTERIOR, EXTERIOR and concepts related to the vertical and to the horisontal axis. The languagespecific distinctions show that each language discovers...
The following article is a part of research on the image of Poland in Sweden and Sweden in Poland done for the author’s PhD dissertation. The analysis of newspaper articles published in Swedish newspapers since 1987 till 1997 showed the most popular issues on Poland. They are: pollution, the situation of Polish Jews and the position of the Catholic church in Poland, Polish-German and Polish-Russian...
Language plays a very important role in Katarina Frostenson’s works, being not only the stuff, but also one of the leading subjects. Her literary production is strongly metapoetical and metalinguistic. Frostenson’s views on language have much in common with poststructuralism and deconstruction when she maintains that language is insufficient to describe the world and that consequently, the world is...
The paper constitutes an analysis of the poetry of Stig Larsson in the context of the postmodern break-up of traditional definitions of literary genres. The characteristic features of the Swedish poet's work are ambiguity, fragmentation, rich intertextual references, and, most importantly, a radically undefined, diffuse persona of the speaker, no longer able to organize the presented world. Larsson's...
Dan Andersson (1888-1920), a poet and writer, has a large number of enthusiasts in Sweden. Many of his poems were put to music and they became well - known songs. His lyrics are said to contain the essence of Sweden - anxiety, melancholy and existential dilemmas. He lived and wrote in the period of important political and social transformations which were also reflected in literature. There are many...
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