The purpose of this essay is to examine whether visiting noblemen at the castles of Borgholm and Kalmar with their vast network of acquaintances can determine a tendency towards a political stance in the civil war of Sweden in the late 16th century. This is done by examining the guests and the company of the bailiff, born as a commoner but later governor and nobleman, Christoffer Gyllengrip Andersson, who in the end of the century would perish in the same manner as many of the peerage who fell at the bloodbath of Linköping in the year 1600. The networks are analyzed with the help of accountings and census records from the above mentioned castles between the years 1579-1592 whereon by the year 1593 the following national as well as local events will be analyzed and presented until the year 1600. The essay shows that allegiance to one or the other side can be seen to certain degree in the presented era delving into Kalmar Castle generally, allthough the true nature of one’s political ideals become most visible in the later 1590s when the noblemen actually are forced to take sides, instead of the double-agent poppycock of which they were in the antecedent decade of 1580. The essay shows that the information given by the census-records can be anchored in history’s more famous line such as when Olof Andersson Oxehufvud (one of many) is assigned as governor in the year 1594 to prevent the eminent empowerment of his uncle Karl, Duke of Södermanland, Närke and Värmland.

During the 21st century, Society has again begun to focus its attention on working class literature and on issues related to social class. In the media contemporary working class literature is often mentioned as a distinct phenomenon. I my view, the meaning of this phenomenon have not been adequately formulated. The aim of this Master’s Thesis is to reconstruct, using a discourse oriented text analysis, a picture of how the contemporary working class literature is described in today’s society. This approach falls therefore within the framework of the Sociology of Literature and is based on the assumption that the discourse of working class literature is undergoing change. Utilizing an established definition of working class literature, I have created five nodal points around which I believe the discourse is mainly formed and changed. Links are then made to these points from chains of equivalence, based on essential ideas concerning the identities that have been ascribed to different subjects and objects. In order to show how the discourse is contextually constructed, the results are seen in relation to a discussion in contemporary research and literature about class society and the welfare state. My empirical data consists mainly of reviews and interviews in leading daily newspapers in Sweden concerning five writers who have published novels between 1999 and 2007 and who have been associated with contemporary working class literature. These writers are Lena Andersson, Torbjörn Flygt, Tony Samuelsson, Susanna Alakoski and Åsa Linderborg. The results show that the working class writer is a “class traveller”, who today holds a prominent position within the literary public sphere. The main purpose of the literature is to criticize the class society of today and to make it more visible. The novels reflects findings from social science research showing that the modern welfare state is a segregated and unequal society where the losers mainly consist of the unemployed and immigrants who often live in suburbs that were built during the million dwellings program. They also show today’s working class that primarily consist of people within the caring and service sectors and therefore largely are women. / Uppsatsnivå: D

The purpose of this study was to examine the differences as well as the similarities between the coverage and representation of the coaches of the Swedish men's national team and women's national team. The method we used for our study was quantitative content analysis. We examined 473 articles in the two Swedish tabloid newspapers Aftonbladet and Expressen. Some of the major results that we found in the study were that the representation of the coach of the men's national team were more positive than the women's coach. 76 articles about Jan Andersson, coach for the men's team were positive, while 25 articles about Pia Sundhage, coach for the women's team were positive. We also found out that the men's national team were in far more articles than the women's team. 340 articles were about the men's team and 133 articles were about the women's team.

The dissertation deals with the Municipal Theatre of Göteborg with special reference to the period between 1967 and 1971, during which the group theatre developed and paved the way for a repertoire of social criticism. The theatre debate is viewed against the background of the socio-economic, ideo­logical, and cultural development of the 1960,s. After describing conditions at the Municipal Theatre of Göteborg under Mats Johansson's management from 1962 onwards, the study concentrates on analysing three group theatre plays produced by Lennart Hjulström: Flotten (spring 1967) by Kent Andersson, Hemmet (autumn 1967) by Kent Andersson and Bengt Bratt, and Sandlådan (autumn 1968) by Kent Andersson. The first play thematizes the ideological confusion of the middle-aged generation, the second the disappointment of the aged at the betrayal of socialist ideals, and the third the manipulative repression of children's education. A series of stagings with strong elements of social criticism caused a long and intense debate in the summer of 1969 about both the repertoire and the internal conditions of the Municipal Theatre. In spring, 1971, Kent Andersson and Bengt Bratt wrote Tillståndet (an ambiguous title meaning both 'condition' and 'permission'), by which the authors intended to ex­pose the repressive tolerance of bourgeois society. This play functions as an evaluation of both the group theatre period and the situation of the theatre as a whole, and it is therefore analysed in a metaperspective. It also functions as a summary of the criticism of the Swedish welfare state. / digitalisering@umu

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Den grafiska romanen Alena analyseras i denna uppsats med fokus på tematiken  psykiskt försvar. En intermedial metod används för att studera hur bild och text kommunicerar denna tematik. Uppsatsens frågeställning är -     Hur gestaltas psykets försvar i text respektive bild i Kim W. Anderssons Alena? Uppsatsen baseras på jagpsykologisk teori för förklarandet av psykisk försvarsmekanik. Den psykologiska teorin kopplas till den intermediala analysen av basmediernas samverkan och klargör hur de kommunicerar psykiskt försvar. Resultatet av uppsatsen visar att det är genom kommunikationen mellan bilden och texten som den psykologiska aspekten utläses. I vissa fall tyds tematiken genom expanderande förhållande mellan basmedierna, där de vidare förklarar varandras uttryck och skapar en större möjlighet till psykologiska tolkningar. I andra fall är det ett kontrapunktiskt förhållande mellan medierna som möjliggör utläsning av exempelvis ontologiska skikt. De ontologiska skikten visar på alternativa ”sanningar” och upplevelser, som inte uttrycks konkret i diegesen. Resultaten tydliggör det opålitliga berättarperspektivet som verket präglas av. Läsaren möts flera gånger av olika utsagor och motsägande skuldbeläggning.  Genom tydliggörande av verkets psykologiska prägel skapas en förståelse för berättelsens ifrågasättande av sig själv.

Benny Anderssons och Björn Ulvaeus musikal Kristina från Duvemåla är baserad på Vilhelm Mobergs utvandrarepos och sågs mellan åren 1995–1999 av över en miljon besökare. Denna undersökning har med utgångspunkt i de teoretiska termerna adaption, ledmotiv och folkton analyserat dels hur den litterära textens teman och handling har adapterats till musikalen i form av sångtexterna och dels hur upphovsmännen har valt att musikaliskt förmedla Karl Oskars och Kristinas kärlek samt Kristinas hemlängtan. Begreppen ”aural equivalents” och ”musically voiced” har varit ledord i undersökningen, likaså dramaturgiska teman. Undersökningen är både en adaptionsanalys och en musikalisk analys. Enligt det hermeneutiska tankesättet pendlar undersökningen mellan detaljerade analyser av utvalda låtar och låttexter och mer översiktliga analyser av musikalen som helhet i förhållande till Vilhelm Mobergs utvandrarepos. Det står klart att upphovsmännen har förvaltat originalverkets berättelse väl, men de har också gjort en del perspektivförändringar då många av karaktärerna har fått mindre utrymme än i böckerna, medan karaktären Kristina tar mer plats i musikalen. Upphovsmännen har använt sig av ledmotiv och folkton som ”aural equivalents” för att både skildra kärleken mellan Kristina och Karl Oskar och Kristinas hemlängtan. Ledmotivens symbolik är tematisk, snarare än kopplad till enskilda karaktärer, vilket i sin tur har resulterat i en komplex ”väv av ledmotiv”. Folkton och direkta inlån från traditionell folkmusik har använts för att gestalta Kristinas hemlängtan och för att placera berättelsen i tid och rum. Till sist reflekteras det över det faktum att även utvandrareposet är en adaption av den svenska utvandringen till Amerika under 1800-talet. Denna undersökning hoppas kunna bidra till forskningen kring hur ett originalverk påverkas av att adapteras till musikteaterns förutsättningar och konventioner och på vilka sätt en musikalkompositör musikaliskt kan gestalta de dramaturgiska teman som en musikal består av.

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the introduction of the first ever Swedish female prime minister, Magdalena Andersson, by comparing her to a theoretical framework consistent with factors which are generally thought to facilitate the emergence of female prime ministers. Factors within two different perspectives: the party political - and the personal perspective, are gathered. The former includes factors concerning the political party of which the woman of interest has become party leader which then led to a prime ministership. The latter includes individual factors about who these women are in terms of their social backgrounds and personalities. Previous research is used as a way of collecting information on what factors have prevailed the emergence of female prime ministers and six different factors especially stand out and thus make up the theoretical framework. In order to analyze Andersson in comparison to the theoretical framework, this single case is tested by using a qualitative text analysis method. Different text material sources are used as dependent on the different factors being tested. The results show that nearly all of the factors were present during the introduction of Andersson. However, it also becomes clear that other factors might also have affected the introduction of Andersson, factors which could be relevant to take into account in further studies on the subject of female prime ministers.

Studiet av politiskt ledarskap blir alltmer centralt i takt med det politiska ledarskapets växande inflytande på människors vardag. För Socialdemokraterna har Sveriges NATO-process inneburit en påtaglig försvarspolitisk omställning. Trots förlust av regeringsmakten har stödet för såväl partiet som för partiledaren Magdalena Andersson vuxit, mitt under en påtaglig politisk omställning. Opinionen för ett svenskt medlemskap har uppvisat radikala förändringar inom partiet, som traditionellt sett varit kategoriskt avvisande för ett svenskt NATO-medlemskap. Det torde krävas ett framgångsrikt ledarskap för att uppnå detta. Svensk ledarskapsforskning hyllar modellen utvecklande ledarskap som en åtråvärd modell för utövande av framgångsrikt ledarskap. Kan dess förlaga, transformativt ledarskap, utgöra en giltig förklaringsfaktor bakom förståelsen för Magdalena Anderssons utövade ledarskap? Kan modellen också förklara Anderssons höga förtroendesiffror i kontexten av Sveriges NATO-process? En unik faktor i det aktuella fallet är också att Anderssons ledarskapsutövning kan observeras utifrån två olika roller. Dels i rollen som regeringschef, dels i rollen som partiledare i opposition vilket ger undersökningen en komparativ anstrykning. Studien har syftat till att undersöka huruvida modellen transformativt ledarskap är tillämpbar som giltig förklaringsmodell bakom det ledarskap som Magdalena Andersson har utövat inom ramen för Sveriges NATO-process. Undersökningen visar genom en deduktiv tematisk analys att det ledarskap som utövas i båda rollerna är överförbara på det transformativa ledarskapets fyra faktorer (idealiserat inflytande, intellektuell stimulering, inspirerande motivation samt individuell omtanke). Undersökningen visar också att det torde krävas utövande av transformativt för att uppnå och upprätthålla höga förtroendesiffror under en politisk omställning av NATO-processens dignitet.

Subtitling is a discipline within the Audiovisual Translation (AVT) field that requires some special techniques and strategies to channel the information from a multichannel and polisemiotic document into a written text within the screen. It’s a constrained translation that demands an additional effort to convey the content and the form of the source text into the target one. The aim of this paper is to analyse whether the model of the kernel sentences and clausal ranks of the generative-transformational grammar would work as a more systematic method to extract the essential information of the audiovisual text and organize it in more concise and reduced units of text, i. e., the subtitles. We will also analyse whether this linguistic approach will be enough to meet our objective or if, on the other hand, other extralinguistic aspects intervene. The texts we will be using for our study are Roy Andersson’s commentary on three deleted scenes of his film “Songs from the second floor” and the documentary Den lilla människans storhet, a behind-the-scenes or making-of on the same feature.