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Ullén, M. (2017). Erik van Ooijen. Dödsporr. Etik, estetik, våld (Stockholm. Faethon, 2016). [Review]. Samlaren: Tidskrift för forskning om svensk och annan nordisk litteratur, 138, 264-269
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Erik van Ooijen. Dödsporr. Etik, estetik, våld (Stockholm. Faethon, 2016).
2017 (Swedish)In: Samlaren: Tidskrift för forskning om svensk och annan nordisk litteratur, ISSN 0348-6133, E-ISSN 2002-3871, Vol. 138, p. 264-269Article, book review (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Svenska Litteratursällskapet, 2017
National Category
General Literature Studies
Research subject
Comparative Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-66687 (URN)
Available from: 2018-03-13 Created: 2018-03-13 Last updated: 2022-09-15Bibliographically approved
Ullén, M. (2017). Review of Jeanne Cortiel, With a Barbarous Din: Race and Ethnic Encounter in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Literature [Review]. American Studies in Scandinavia, 49(2), 115-118
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Review of Jeanne Cortiel, With a Barbarous Din: Race and Ethnic Encounter in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Literature
2017 (English)In: American Studies in Scandinavia, ISSN 0044-8060, Vol. 49, no 2, p. 115-118Article, book review (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2017
National Category
Languages and Literature
Research subject
Comparative Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-64624 (URN)
Available from: 2017-10-06 Created: 2017-10-06 Last updated: 2020-04-14Bibliographically approved
Ullén, M. (2017). Svartjobb och dubbelmoral: Magnus Ullén om Svenska Akademiens ansvar för en cynisk exploatering av kulturarbetare. Aftonbladet, 30 nov.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Svartjobb och dubbelmoral: Magnus Ullén om Svenska Akademiens ansvar för en cynisk exploatering av kulturarbetare
2017 (Swedish)In: Aftonbladet, Vol. 30 nov.Article in journal, News item (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
National Category
Languages and Literature
Research subject
Comparative Literature; English
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-65369 (URN)
Available from: 2017-12-11 Created: 2017-12-11 Last updated: 2020-05-25Bibliographically approved
Granath, S. & Ullén, M. (2017). The Elevation of Sensitivity Over Truth: Political Correctness and Related Phrases in the Time Magazine Corpus.. Applied Linguistics, 40(2), 265-287
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Elevation of Sensitivity Over Truth: Political Correctness and Related Phrases in the Time Magazine Corpus.
2017 (English)In: Applied Linguistics, ISSN 0142-6001, E-ISSN 1477-450X, Vol. 40, no 2, p. 265-287Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article is a quantitative and qualitative diachronic study of how the expression politically correct (PC) and related phrases are used in the American magazine Time from 1923 through 2006. The data show a dramatic increase in the frequency with which PC-phrases are used in the early 1990s. From this time onwards, the phrases are often used as a means of passing evaluative subjective opinions off as objectively reported facts, especially in reviews of cultural events, where they figure prominently. In contrast to earlier studies, our data show that PC-phrases are not inherently negative; this applies primarily to discourse on environment and business, where to be PC often implies being environmentally or socially conscious in a positive sense. Nevertheless, negative or ironic uses of the terms predominate. Most often they express criticism of unspoken cultural norms rather than being attempts to close down debate or criticizing the replacement of offensive terms by more neutral expressions

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford University Press, 2017
National Category
Languages and Literature
Research subject
English
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-62539 (URN)10.1093/applin/amx019 (DOI)000463810000004 ()
Available from: 2017-07-26 Created: 2017-07-26 Last updated: 2020-12-10Bibliographically approved
Ullén, M. (2017). The Problem of Modernity: Hawthorne Criticism, Faith, and the Literary Situation. Orbis Litterarum, 72(4), 265-293
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Problem of Modernity: Hawthorne Criticism, Faith, and the Literary Situation
2017 (English)In: Orbis Litterarum, ISSN 0105-7510, E-ISSN 1600-0730, Vol. 72, no 4, p. 265-293Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article suggests that the ideologically aware mode of criticism that characterizes recent Hawthorne criticism is not the radical break with an earlier mode of criticism that it might appear to be, but rather a continuation of it. While laudable, the crucial aim of recent critics, to elucidate the relationship between literary text and social context, is in practice often compromised by the notion that literary works are more valuable if they can be shown somehow to predate or prefigure our own historical situation. This notion, however, is itself an article of faith, and needs to be critically examined if ideological analysis is to retain its productivity. To that end, the present article suggests that literary criticism would do well to focus not so much on the literary text as on the literary situation, which involves not only the writer and the original audience of the text, but its subsequent readings as well.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
John Wiley & Sons, 2017
Keywords
American literature; Nathaniel Hawthorne; modernity; faith; literary situation
National Category
Languages and Literature
Research subject
English; Comparative Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-62538 (URN)10.1111/oli.12135 (DOI)000406981900001 ()
Available from: 2017-07-26 Created: 2017-07-26 Last updated: 2020-04-14Bibliographically approved
Ullén, M. (2017). With a Barbarous Din: Race and Ethnic Encounter in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Literature. American Studies in Scandinavia, 49(2), 115-118
Open this publication in new window or tab >>With a Barbarous Din: Race and Ethnic Encounter in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Literature
2017 (English)In: American Studies in Scandinavia, ISSN 0044-8060, Vol. 49, no 2, p. 115-118Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2017
National Category
General Literature Studies
Research subject
Comparative Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-65885 (URN)000412618200008 ()
Available from: 2018-01-25 Created: 2018-01-25 Last updated: 2018-06-29Bibliographically approved
Ullén, M. (2016). “A tangled web of mindfuck": Andrea Dworkin and the Truth of Pornography. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 35(1), 145-171
Open this publication in new window or tab >>“A tangled web of mindfuck": Andrea Dworkin and the Truth of Pornography
2016 (English)In: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, ISSN 0732-7730, E-ISSN 1936-1645, Vol. 35, no 1, p. 145-171Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This essay argues that Andrea Dworkin’s much derided argument against pornography may still prove productive if read in relation to her fiction. Taking note of the fact that Dworkin’s own novels have been accused of being pornographic according to her criteria, the essay explores the possibility that her radical feminist anti-porn stance, inevitably described as something of a moralistic backlash by sex-liberals, could be seen as a continuation of the pornographic imagination it so vehemently protests. Through critical readings of Dworkin’s novels Ice and Fire and Mercy, as well as her autobiographical works and theoretical writings on pornography, the essay demonstrates that the contradic- tions that beset her writings echo the contradictions inherent in our contemporary under- standing of pornography. Much like the pornography she would resist, Dworkin’s writings invite a solipsistic mode of reading, the experiential rewards of which are not so much of an interpretive as of a sensual nature. In so doing, Dworkin’s fiction paradoxically proves an invaluable point of entry into the pornographic imagination, making evident its essentially monologic nature. While this circumstance may be damaging for her status as an agitator, it points to her continued—if as yet largely unacknowledged—importance as a writer. 

Keywords
pornography; feminism; american literature; andrea dworkin
National Category
Languages and Literature
Research subject
Comparative Literature; English
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-44362 (URN)10.1353/tsw.2016.0014 (DOI)000378368300006 ()
Available from: 2016-07-04 Created: 2016-07-04 Last updated: 2017-11-28Bibliographically approved
Ullén, M. (2016). ”Ingen i kultureliten har försvarat antisemitism”.. Barometerna
Open this publication in new window or tab >>”Ingen i kultureliten har försvarat antisemitism”.
2016 (Swedish)In: BarometernaArticle in journal, News item (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
National Category
General Literature Studies
Research subject
Comparative Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-44529 (URN)
Available from: 2016-07-27 Created: 2016-07-27 Last updated: 2018-06-26Bibliographically approved
Ullén, M. (2016). "Kritikerna blinda för Lundkvists nazism.".
Open this publication in new window or tab >>"Kritikerna blinda för Lundkvists nazism."
2016 (Swedish)Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
National Category
Humanities Languages and Literature
Research subject
Comparative Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-44527 (URN)
Note

Aftonbladet, 11/7

Available from: 2016-07-27 Created: 2016-07-27 Last updated: 2020-07-02Bibliographically approved
Ullén, M. (2016). ”Ni missar målet – igen.” Slutreplik. . Aftonbladet, 27/7
Open this publication in new window or tab >>”Ni missar målet – igen.” Slutreplik.
2016 (Swedish)In: Aftonbladet, 27/7Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Schibsted Forlag, 2016
National Category
Languages and Literature
Research subject
Comparative Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-44528 (URN)
Available from: 2016-07-27 Created: 2016-07-27 Last updated: 2020-04-14Bibliographically approved
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