Lars Elleström – författare

Ordning och reda, systematik och klassificering utgör all vetenskaps början. Som varje vetenskapsgren har litteraturhistorien sitt särskilda sätt att ordna stoffet och sitt eget förråd av termer och begrepp. Period, genre, nationallitteratur, troké, barock och tragedi – vad menas egentligen med sådana ord? Hur används de och hundratals liknande? Samtidigt som Litteraturhistoriens grundbegrepp lämnar svar på dessa frågor visar den på det varierande och ibland motsägelsefulla i olika perioders och forskares terminologi och sätt att närma sig diktkonsten. Mycket har hänt sedan Staffan Bergsten gav ut den första upplagan av denna bok. För revisionen i föreliggande upplaga svarar en yngre forskare, Lars Elleström, som kompletterar med dagens sätt att se på gamla frågor, som t.ex. den litteraturhistoriska kanon. Han har också sörjt för att nyare skönlitterära texter förts in som belysande exempel. Framställningssättet är genomgående resonerande och analyserande, men tack vare ett utförligt register kan boken också tjäna som uppslagsbok. Boken är avsedd för studenter i litteraturvetenskap vid universitet och högskolor.

I denna lärobok presenteras grunderna för lyrikanalys och lyriktolkning. De viktigaste termerna och teorierna förklaras och appliceras på ett brett urval texter, från antikens kärleksdikt till dagens rocklyrik. I framställningens exempel analyseras det svårbegripliga lika väl som traditionella klichéer, det högstämda lika väl som vulgära infall.Boken disponeras utifrån tanken att lyrik främst når oss via två sinnen: synen och hörseln. Vi läser lyrik eller lyssnar på den och upplevelsen grundar sig på bild och ljud, vare sig det gäller bilder i vårt inre eller rytmer som får luften att vibrera. Vissa dikter måste ses för att begripas till fullo, andra måste höras för att dess kvaliteter ska gå fram, medan ytterligare andra uppfattas lika bra med ögon som öron.Lyrikanalys är i första hand avsedd för grundutbildningen i litteraturvetenskap och på lärarutbildningen. Denna andra upplaga är redaktionellt genomgången och har fått en ny form. I samma serie ges samtidigt nya upplagor av Dramatikanalys och Epikanalys ut.

Den som sätter sig att läsa Resor i tid och rum får förbereda sig på hisnande färder över vidsträckta fält: från finstämda parisiska bilddikter till en monty pythonsk spänningsroman, från Fridegårds trälar till rollspelet Warhammer Fantasy Role Play, från den sömniga småstaden Nässjö till igbo-byar i östra Nigeria. Vi möter resande konst, barn och språk. Litteraturläsande som en egen resa, där läsfärdighet är den nödvändiga biljetten, behandlas från olika håll: i skolan, i samtalet, i läsarens inre. Vi får läsa om indianer och indier, perser och greker och mycket, mycket mer. Ett försök att fånga litteraturvetaren Margareta Peterssons många intresseområden indoengelsk roman, postkolonial litteratur, global litteraturhistorieskrivning samt litteraturdidaktisk forskning kan inte sluta på annat sätt än med en omfångsrik antologi, med trettio nyskrivna och intressanta artiklar författade av kolleger från lärosäten runt hela landet. Förhoppningen är att läsaren möts av en och annan oväntad koppling som sprider nytt ljus över det som för professor Petersson sedan länge varit känt.

This collection offers a multi-faceted exploration of transmediations, the processes of transfer and transformation that occur when communicative acts in one medium are mediated again through another. While previous research has explored these processes from a broader perspective, Salmose and Elleström argue that a better understanding is needed of the extent to which the outcomes of communicative acts are modified when transferred across multimodal media in order to foster a better understanding of communication more generally. Using this imperative as a point of departure, the book details a variety of transmediations, viewed through four different lenses. The first part of the volume looks at narrative transmediations, building on existing work done by Marie-Laure Ryan on transmedia storytelling. The second section focuses on the spatial dynamics involved in media transformation as well as the role of the human body as a perceptive agent and a medium in its own right. The third part investigates new, radical boundaries and media types in transmediality and hence shows its versatility as a method of analyzing complex and contemporary communicative discourses. The fourth and final part explores the challenges involved in transmediating scientific data into the narrative format in the context of environmental issues. Taken together, these sections highlight a range of case studies of transmediations and, in turn, the complexity and variety of the process, informed by the methodologies of the different disciplines to which they belong. This innovative volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars in multimodality, communication, intermediality, semiotics, and adaptation studies.

This collection offers a multi-faceted exploration of transmediations, the processes of transfer and transformation that occur when communicative acts in one medium are mediated again through another. While previous research has explored these processes from a broader perspective, Salmose and Elleström argue that a better understanding is needed of the extent to which the outcomes of communicative acts are modified when transferred across multimodal media in order to foster a better understanding of communication more generally. Using this imperative as a point of departure, the book details a variety of transmediations, viewed through four different lenses. The first part of the volume looks at narrative transmediations, building on existing work done by Marie-Laure Ryan on transmedia storytelling. The second section focuses on the spatial dynamics involved in media transformation as well as the role of the human body as a perceptive agent and a medium in its own right. The third part investigates new, radical boundaries and media types in transmediality and hence shows its versatility as a method of analyzing complex and contemporary communicative discourses. The fourth and final part explores the challenges involved in transmediating scientific data into the narrative format in the context of environmental issues. Taken together, these sections highlight a range of case studies of transmediations and, in turn, the complexity and variety of the process, informed by the methodologies of the different disciplines to which they belong. This innovative volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars in multimodality, communication, intermediality, semiotics, and adaptation studies.

This open access book is a methodical treatise on narration in different types of media. A theoretical rather than a historical study, Transmedial Narration is relevant for an understanding of narration in all times, including our own. By reconstructing the theoretical framework of transmedial narration, this book enables the inclusion of all kinds of communicative media forms on their own terms.The treatise is divided into three parts. Part I presents established and newly developed concepts that are vital for formulating a nuanced theoretical model of transmedial narration. Part II investigates the specific transmedial media characteristics that are most central for realizing narratives in a plenitude of different media types. Finally, Part III contains brief studies in which the narrative potentials of painting, instrumental music, mathematical equations, and guided tours are illuminated with the aid of the theoretical framework developed throughout the book. Suitable for advanced students and scholars, this book provides tools to disentangle the narrative potential of any form of communication.

This open access book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, necessarily involves analysing these multimodal traits. The collection includes a series of interconnected articles that illustrate and clarify how the concepts developed in Elleström’s influential article The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) can be used for methodical investigation and interpretation of media traits and media interrelations. The authors work with a wide range of old and new media types that are traditionally investigated through limited, media-specific concepts. The publication is a significant contribution to interdisciplinary research, advancing the frontiers of conceptual as well as practical understanding of media interrelations. This is the first of two volumes. It contains Elleström’s revised article and six other contributions focusing especially onmedia integration: how media products and media types are combined and merged in various ways.

This open access book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, necessarily involves analysing these multimodal traits. The collection includes a series of interconnected articles that illustrate and clarify how the concepts developed in Elleström’s influential article The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) can be used for methodical investigation and interpretation of media traits and media interrelations. The authors work with a wide range of old and new media types that are traditionally investigated through limited, media-specific concepts. The publication is a significant contribution to interdisciplinary research, advancing the frontiers of conceptual as well as practical understanding of media interrelations. This is the first of two volumes. It contains Elleström’s revised article and six other contributions focusing especially onmedia integration: how media products and media types are combined and merged in various ways.

This open access book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, necessarily involves analysing these multimodal traits. The collection includes a series of interconnected articles that illustrate and clarify how the concepts developed in Elleström’s influential article The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) can be used for methodical investigation and interpretation of media traits and media interrelations. The authors work with a wide range of old and new media types that are traditionally investigated through limited, media-specific concepts. The publication is a significant contribution to interdisciplinary research, advancing the frontiers of conceptual as well as practical understanding of media interrelations. This is the second of two volumes. It contains a concluding article by Elleström and seven contributions concentrated on the issueof media transformations: how media characteristics are transferred and transfigured among various media products and media types.