Paul Tenngart – författare & böcker

Det litterära Nobelpriset : historien om världslitteraturens största utmärkelse

Inbunden, Svenska, 2025

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309 kr

"Tenngarts 'Det litterära Nobelpriset' måste vara årets mest oväntade bladvändare. Trots att den handlar om världens mest kända pris är boken full av cliffhangers och oförutsägbara vändningar." Rasmus Landström, Aftonbladet

"Paul Tenngart visar vad en beläst och skicklig litteraturforskare kan åstadkomma med ett gigantiskt material som detta. [...] strålande prov på litteraturforskning när den är som mest angenäm att läsa" Maria Schottenius, DN

"en praktisk och oumbärlig handbok om Nobelpristagarna och deras författarskap" Jan-Olov Nyström, UNT

Enligt Alfred Nobels testamente ska Nobelpriset i litteratur tilldelas ”den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk rigtning”. Alltsedan 1901, då det första priset gick till Sully Prudhomme, har Svenska Akademien tolkat Nobels kosmopolitiska och idealistiska intentioner efter bästa förmåga, samtidigt som omvärlden påverkat och reagerat på priset.

Litteraturforskaren Paul Tenngart tar med läsaren på en generös bildningsresa genom prisets vindlande historia. Han tecknar en levande bild av pristagare och epoker, via triumfer och katastrofer, fram till våra dagar då priset alltjämt bekräftar en utbredd tro på att litteratur kan bedömas bortom nationella och kulturella enskildheter.

Litteraturteori

AvPaul Tenngart

Häftad, Svenska, 2019

494 kr

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Vilka litteraturvetenskapliga teorier har varit tongivande under de senaste hundra åren? Och hur kan de användas för att analysera en skönlitterär text? I den här boken får läsaren en överskådlig och lättillgänglig genomgång av de stora litteraturteorierna, från det tidiga 1900-talets ryska formalism, via nykritik, strukturalism, dekonstruktion, läsarorienterade teorier, marxism, kulturkritik, feminism, queerteori, postkolonialism och ekokritik, ända fram till den senaste tidens världslitteraturforskning. Läsaren får dessutom god inblick i hur de olika teorierna fungerar i praktiken när de i tur och ordning tillämpas i nio analyser av Majken Johanssons dikt ”Novellette”. Här samsas teori och praktik. Boken är lika mycket en användbar introduktion till litteraturteori som den är en hjälp för den som behöver ett fungerande verktyg för att analysera en specifik text. I tredje upplagan har texten genomgått en grundläggande uppdatering. Bland annat finns ett nyskrivet kapitel om teorier om världslitteratur, en inriktning som har fått en alltmer dominerande position inom den internationella litteraturveten¬skapen. Paul Tenngart är docent i litteraturvetenskap vid Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Lunds universitet.

Literary Translation and the Nobel Prize

Cultural Prestige, International Consecration and Translational Practice

AvPaul Tenngart,Karl Ågerup

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

2 559 kr

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This collection offers the first systematic account of the pivotal role of literary translation in the history and future of the Nobel Prize in Literature.The volume explores the complex reciprocal relationship between the prize institution and translation from a transdisciplinary lens. Perspectives from varied disciplines from around the world consider the ways in which the prize relies heavily on translations before and after prize decisions but also the impact of laureate announcements on wider translation patterns. The collection concludes with several chapters on individual case studies and an afterword by esteemed translator Jan Henrik Swahn.Making the case for a wide-reaching transdisciplinary approach to understanding the interplay of literary translation and the Nobel Prize, this book will be of interest to scholars in translation studies, comparative literature, literary studies, and cultural sociology.

Northern Crossings

Translation, Circulation and the Literary Semi-periphery

AvChatarina Edfeldt,Erik Falkm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

1 544 kr

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This open access book uses Swedish literature and the Swedish publishing field as recurring examples todescribe and analyse the role of the literary semi-peripheral position in world literature from various perspectives and on meso, micro and macro levels, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. This includes the role of translation in the semi-periphery and the conditions under which literature travels to and from that position. The focus is not on Sweden, as such, but rather on the semi-peripheral transitional space as exemplified by the Swedish case.Consisting of three co-written chapters, this study sheds light on what might be called the semi-peripheral condition or the semi-periphery as an area of transition. As part of the Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures series, it makes continuous use of the concepts of 'cosmopolitan' and 'vernacular' – or rather, the processual terms, cosmopolitanization and vernacularization – which provide an overall structure to the analysis of literature and literary phenomena. In this way, the authors show that the semi-periphery is an ideal point of departure to further the understanding of world literature, because it is a place where the cosmopolitan (the literary universal) and the vernacular (the rootedness in a particular culture or place) interact in ways that have not yet been thoroughly explored.The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Northern Crossings

Translation, Circulation and the Literary Semi-periphery

AvChatarina Edfeldt,Erik Falkm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

484 kr

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This open access book uses Swedish literature and the Swedish publishing field as recurring examples todescribe and analyse the role of the literary semi-peripheral position in world literature from various perspectives and on meso, micro and macro levels, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. This includes the role of translation in the semi-periphery and the conditions under which literature travels to and from that position. The focus is not on Sweden, as such, but rather on the semi-peripheral transitional space as exemplified by the Swedish case.Consisting of three co-written chapters, this study sheds light on what might be called the semi-peripheral condition or the semi-periphery as an area of transition. As part of the Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures series, it makes continuous use of the concepts of 'cosmopolitan' and 'vernacular' – or rather, the processual terms, cosmopolitanization and vernacularization – which provide an overall structure to the analysis of literature and literary phenomena. In this way, the authors show that the semi-periphery is an ideal point of departure to further the understanding of world literature, because it is a place where the cosmopolitan (the literary universal) and the vernacular (the rootedness in a particular culture or place) interact in ways that have not yet been thoroughly explored.The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature

AvPaul Tenngart

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

1 516 kr

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An exploration of the history, ambitions, and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature as it gained a central position in 20th-century global literary culture.Few scholars would deny that the Nobel Prize is the most prestigious literary award in the world. But what mechanisms made it possible for 18 Swedish intellectuals to become the world’s most influential literary critics? Paul Tenngart argues that the Nobel Prize in literature has become a special kind of international canonization: exerted from a non-central, semi-peripheral position, the award sometimes confirms and reinforces hierarchical relations between literary languages and cultures, and sometimes disturbs established patterns of dominance and dependence. Drawing from a wide range of contemporary theories and methods, this multifaceted history of the Nobel Prize questions how the Swedish Academy has managed to keep the prize's global status through all the violent international crises of the last 120 years; how the selection of laureates shaped the idea of 'universal' literary values and defined literary quality across languages and cultures; and what impact the prize has had on the distribution and significance of particular works, literatures and languages. The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature explores the history and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature from the first award in 1901 through recent controversies involving Bob Dylan and #MeToo, arguing that the prize is a unique performative act that has been – and still is – central in our continual and collective construction of world literature.

Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature

AvPaul Tenngart

E-bok

Engelska, 2023

491 kr

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An exploration of the history, ambitions, and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature as it gained a central position in 20th-century global literary culture. Few scholars would deny that the Nobel Prize is the most prestigious literary award in the world. But what mechanisms made it possible for 18 Swedish intellectuals to become the world's most influential literary critics? Paul Tenngart argues that the Nobel Prize in literature has become a special kind of international canonization: exerted from a non-central, semi-peripheral position, the award sometimes confirms and reinforces hierarchical relations between literary languages and cultures, and sometimes disturbs established patterns of dominance and dependence. Drawing from a wide range of contemporary theories and methods, this multifaceted history of the Nobel Prize questions how the Swedish Academy has managed to keep the prize's global status through all the violent international crises of the last 120 years; how the selection of laureates shaped the idea of 'universal' literary values and defined literary quality across languages and cultures; and what impact the prize has had on the distribution and significance of particular works, literatures and languages. The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature explores the history and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature from the first award in 1901 through recent controversies involving Bob Dylan and #MeToo, arguing that the prize is a unique performative act that has been – and still is – central in our continual and collective construction of world literature.

Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature

AvPaul Tenngart

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2023

487 kr

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An exploration of the history, ambitions, and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature as it gained a central position in 20th-century global literary culture. Few scholars would deny that the Nobel Prize is the most prestigious literary award in the world. But what mechanisms made it possible for 18 Swedish intellectuals to become the world's most influential literary critics? Paul Tenngart argues that the Nobel Prize in literature has become a special kind of international canonization: exerted from a non-central, semi-peripheral position, the award sometimes confirms and reinforces hierarchical relations between literary languages and cultures, and sometimes disturbs established patterns of dominance and dependence. Drawing from a wide range of contemporary theories and methods, this multifaceted history of the Nobel Prize questions how the Swedish Academy has managed to keep the prize's global status through all the violent international crises of the last 120 years; how the selection of laureates shaped the idea of 'universal' literary values and defined literary quality across languages and cultures; and what impact the prize has had on the distribution and significance of particular works, literatures and languages. The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature explores the history and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature from the first award in 1901 through recent controversies involving Bob Dylan and #MeToo, arguing that the prize is a unique performative act that has been – and still is – central in our continual and collective construction of world literature.

Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature

AvPaul Tenngart

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

468 kr

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An exploration of the history, ambitions, and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature as it gained a central position in 20th-century global literary culture.Few scholars would deny that the Nobel Prize is the most prestigious literary award in the world. But what mechanisms made it possible for 18 Swedish intellectuals to become the world’s most influential literary critics? Paul Tenngart argues that the Nobel Prize in literature has become a special kind of international canonization: exerted from a non-central, semi-peripheral position, the award sometimes confirms and reinforces hierarchical relations between literary languages and cultures, and sometimes disturbs established patterns of dominance and dependence. Drawing from a wide range of contemporary theories and methods, this multifaceted history of the Nobel Prize questions how the Swedish Academy has managed to keep the prize's global status through all the violent international crises of the last 120 years; how the selection of laureates shaped the idea of 'universal' literary values and defined literary quality across languages and cultures; and what impact the prize has had on the distribution and significance of particular works, literatures and languages. The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature explores the history and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature from the first award in 1901 through recent controversies involving Bob Dylan and #MeToo, arguing that the prize is a unique performative act that has been – and still is – central in our continual and collective construction of world literature.

Literature and the Work of Universality

AvAlice Duhan,Stefan Helgessonm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

1 715 kr

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In an age of accelerating ecological crises, global inequalities and democratic fragility, it has become crucial to achieve renewed articulations of human commonality. With anchorage in critical theory as well as world literary studies, this volume approaches literature – and modes of literary thinking – as a key resource for such a task. "Universality" is understood here not as an established "universalism", but as a horizon towards which intellectual inquiry and literary practices orient themselves. In the field of world literature, there is by now a wide repertoire of epistemological resources through which claims to universality can be both questioned and reconfigured. If, at one end of the spectrum, world literature confronts us with the spectre of homogenisation and the commodification of difference under a regime of global capitalism, at another end renewed forms of philological, anthropological and ecological attentiveness to the particulars of languages and texts within the crucible of connected histories allow for defamiliarising perspectives both on received historical narratives and aesthetic practices. Vernacularity emerges here as a central point of reference for constructing the universal from within the particular, the idiomatic, and the experiences of social subordination or complicity.

Det litterära Nobelpriset : historien om världslitteraturens största utmärkelse

AvPaul Tenngart

E-bok

Svenska, 2025

139 kr

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"Tenngarts 'Det litterära Nobelpriset' måste vara årets mest oväntade bladvändare. Trots att den handlar om världens mest kända pris är boken full av cliffhangers och oförutsägbara vändningar." Rasmus Landström, Aftonbladet

"Paul Tenngart visar vad en beläst och skicklig litteraturforskare kan åstadkomma med ett gigantiskt material som detta. [...] strålande prov på litteraturforskning när den är som mest angenäm att läsa" Maria Schottenius, DN

"en praktisk och oumbärlig handbok om Nobelpristagarna och deras författarskap" Jan-Olov Nyström, UNT

Enligt Alfred Nobels testamente ska Nobelpriset i litteratur tilldelas ”den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk rigtning”. Alltsedan 1901, då det första priset gick till Sully Prudhomme, har Svenska Akademien tolkat Nobels kosmopolitiska och idealistiska intentioner efter bästa förmåga, samtidigt som omvärlden påverkat och reagerat på priset.

Litteraturforskaren Paul Tenngart tar med läsaren på en generös bildningsresa genom prisets vindlande historia. Han tecknar en levande bild av pristagare och epoker, via triumfer och katastrofer, fram till våra dagar då priset alltjämt bekräftar en utbredd tro på att litteratur kan bedömas bortom nationella och kulturella enskildheter.

Världen väntar mig : Birgitta Stenberg, lusten och litteraturen

AvPaul Tenngart

Inbunden, Svenska, 2021

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246 kr

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”Rafflande och innehållsrik biografi över Birgitta Stenberg och hennes avtryck i svensk litteratur.”Dagens Nyheter ”--- Tenngart --- skriver med ljus entusiasm och ett språk som ligger mellan sakprosa och skönlitteratur, med andra ord så långt från akademiskt torr prosa man kan komma”Sydsvenskan

”Paul Tenngart berättar (Birgitta Stenbergs) historia, både den privata och om hennes böcker, på ett ärligt och levande sätt, som Birgitta i sin himmel säkert uppskattar.”Expressen

Hon fick sitt existentiella uppvaknande som 18-åring på baren La Reine Blanche i Paris. Sex år senare, 1956, debuterade hon som romanförfattare med Mikael och Poeten och kort därefter fick hon sitt genombrott med Chans, den banbrytande skildringen av den unga raggartjejen Maris drömmar.

Birgitta Stenbergs berättelser är direkta produkter av författarens nyfikenhet på världen och lust att erfara. Hon reste som ung runt i Sydeuropa, lärde sig språk, experimenterade med droger, blev katolik, hängde på gaybarer och skrev. Det resulterade i ett mångsidigt, färgstarkt och mycket betydelsefullt författarskap.

I Världen väntar mig utforskar litteraturvetaren Paul Tenngart en författare som alltsedan femtiotalet har visat oss svenskar vägen mot nya livsformer. Med sin öppenhet och ärlighet stack hon ut i folkhemssverige och blev en folkkär författare och debattör.

Birgitta Stenberg, som förutom författare var översättare, biodlare, journalist, mekaniker, fiskare och cannabisodlare, har berört läsare i flera generationer, och hennes böcker fortsätter att både fascinera och utmana. Med verk som Kärlek i Europa, Apelsinmannen och Alla vilda har hon visat vad världen har att erbjuda – och vad man riskerar när man kastar sig ut i den.

”--- spännande och samtidigt bortom sensationslystnad. Jag gläds åt bokens välkomponerade stil, och intressanta öppningar mot vår tids samtal om gränsen mellan liv och litteratur.”Göteborgs-Posten

”--- en medryckande skildring av ett författarskap drivet av ’outsinlig energi och permanent viljestyrka’, där tvetydigheterna i (Birgitta Stenbergs) livslust framhävs snarare än förtigs.”Svenska Dagbladet

”Litteraturvetaren Paul Tenngart väver i Världen väntar mig på ett insiktsfullt, kunnigt och respektfullt sätt ihop (Birgitta Stenbergs) liv med hennes verk.”M-Magasin

Världen väntar mig : Birgitta Stenberg, lusten och litteraturen

AvPaul Tenngart

E-bok

Svenska, 2021

169 kr