The television phenomenon called Star Trek has captured audiences for 55 years since the first episode was aired in 1966. In this essay, I study one aspect which has not been explored in detail before: How Star Trek uses literature in the five completed live action-series: Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. I explore this through adaptation studies, mainly as described and defined by Linda Hutcheon, and canon theory, as presented by Harold Bloom. In this essay, I answer my questions by watching every episode in the series mentioned above and categorize the ones where literature is present by strong literary reference and weak literary reference. After this, I give examples of how literature can function in different ways in 8 episodes from the series.

Else Lasker-Schülers poesi är inte speciellt känd i Sverige. Ett flertal av hennes dikter finns emellertid översatta av Peter Handberg i boken Dikter &amp; Porträtt. Dikternas rika känslouttryck, fantasifulla bilder och ovanliga språk fick mig att vilja fördjupa mig i dess innehåll och symboler. Den himmelska världen var en självklar del av Lasker-Schülers liv och diktning, både som astronomiska symboler och gudomliga väsen. Uppsatsen innehåller analyser av dikterna utifrån solen, månen och stjärnorna som symboler och mystika upplevelser. Dessutom har jag jämfört dikterna med essän ”Sterndeuterei” för att skapa en helhetsbild av Lasker-Schülers syn på hur människorna binds samman med himlakropparna och den gudomliga världen. / <p>Godkänt datum 2021-06-01</p>

The main focus of this essay is to attempt to answer the question of how Mary Shelley in her novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), and Kenneth Branagh in his film Frankenstein (1994) portray nature, the environment and the characters with the help of an ecocritical perspective, and how Frankenstein could be used by high school teachers to teach students about the ecocritical perspective, but also the global sustainability goals. The questions that I have tried to answer in this analysis are: How is nature used in the two versions to reflect the main characters? How can the main characters in the two versions be interpreted from an ecocritical perspective? And how can these two versions of Frankenstein be used to inform students about the environment and sustainable development? The analysis has been conducted with the help of two ecocritical concepts, anthropomorphism and anthropocentrism, and with the help of these two concepts I have been able to draw the conclusion that the author and filmmaker present differences in nature and the environment depending on the situation, and I have also been able to present how a high school teacher could use Frankenstein to inform students about the ecocritical perspective and the global sustainability goals. / <p>Godkänt datum 2021-06-01</p>

Studien undersöker likheterna inom romance- genren och syftet med studien är att närmare studera den samt hur den har förändrats sedan 1990- talet och fram till i dag. Detta för att se hur väl kritiken av den och dess kritiserade likhet stämmer in på litteratur från flera olika decennier. Metoden är komparativ och en närläsning har gjorts av valda romaner med utgångspunkt i karaktärerna och hur de är framställda utefter givna kriterier för genren. Därefter har en jämförelse mellan de tre romanerna gjorts. Resultatet av studien visar att romanerna inom genren liknar varandra och uppfyller samma kriterier, men olikheterna är det som gör att varje roman har en egen berättelse och de berättelserna skiljer sig åt på ett markant sätt. Det som däremot sticker ut i resultatet är hur det givna slutet, som är det viktigaste i genren, gestaltas på olika sätt i romanerna ändå slutar det tillfredsställande. Nyckelord: romance, det lyckliga slutet, Barbara Cartland, Nora Roberts, Simona Ahrnstedt

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Syftet med denna studie är att få en inblick i hur genus framställs i läseböcker som används i skolans läsundervisning och vad genusframställningen kan säga om flickors och pojkars handlingsutrymme i skola och samhälle. Studien inbegriper även att sätta genusframställningen i relation till olika pedagogiska strategier för att utröna skolans betydelse i förändringsarbete kring genus. Litteraturanalysen visar att det både finns karaktärer, föremål och händelser som bryter mot de traditionella könsnormerna och sådant som bekräftar dem. I många fall kan genusframställningen därför bidra till att bredda handlingsutrymmet för de barn som läser böckerna, men i andra fall minska det. För att hjälpa till vid barnens identitetsskapande kan pedagoger genom att göra välgrundade bokval aktivt arbeta med samtal om normer och därigenom försöka bredda barnens begreppsvärld. / <p>Slutgiltigt godkännandedatum: 2022-01-17</p>

This thesis has used a Queer approach in an attempt to explore that double as  a literary element is used to show a homophobic society in Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The narrative of the novel shows homoerotic codes when the novel is observed through a Queer reading, although homosexuality is never explicitly exposed. This thesis discussed the split character of Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde, which represents a form of suppressed homosexuality that is the result of a homophobic society and internalized homophobia. This was done by analyzing the protagonists and some of the main social factors that that helped to spread homophobia: religious motives, law, the threat of violation of social values, and secret fear of being homosexual. Ultimately the analysis of this thesis helped to reveal a homophobic society in the novel, representing late Victorian society. Consequently in late Victorian society in the novel, the social, religious and legal repression of homosexuality led to internalized homophobia, and a tendency for homosexuals to internalize forms of self-loathing and self-damage, which is represented in the duality of Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde.

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Le présent travail fait une analyse comparative des oeuvres littéraires Le Mariage de Figaro de Beaumarchais et Cahier d’un retour au pays natal d’Aimé Césaire sous le thème de la révolte. Le but de l’analyse est de voir si les sentiments de révolte exprimés par les deux auteurs sont de même nature, bien que les deux oeuvres soient de genres différents, de périodes différentes et de courants littéraires différents. Notre recherche a montré que Beaumarchais n'avait pas l’intention de nuire au trône royal. Par son génie, il a fait un théâtre de comédie satirique contre les avantages aristocratiques acquis seulement par naissance et souhaitait l'ennoblissement par le mérite. Beaumarchais exprime également son désarroi contre le traitement infligé aux femmes. Quant à Aimé Césaire, il a eu le privilège de connaître ses origines et sa culture d’origine africaine au contact de Senghor. Son poème est conçu comme une bombe verbale afin de combattre l’esclavagisme et le colonialisme. Il exprime ses sentiments de révolte contre la pauvreté sans nom qui frappe son pays et lance un appel à la révolte contre le colonisateur. Nous constatons également que le lien d’influence de Beaumarchais sur Césaire n’est pas direct, mais passe par les connaissances profondes qu’a Césaire sur la Révolution française et la philosophie des Lumières. / This work makes a comparative analysis of the literary works The Marriage of Figaro by Beaumarchais and Cahier d'un retour au pays natal by Aimé Césaire under the theme of revolt. The aim of the analysis is to see if the feelings of revolt expressed by the two authors are of the same nature, although the two works are of different genres, from different periods and from different literary currents. Our research showed that Beaumarchais had no intention of harming the royal throne. By his genius he made satirical comedy theater against aristocratic advantages acquired only by birth and desired ennoblement by merit. Beaumarchais also expresses his dismay at the treatment inflicted on women. As for Aimé Césaire, he had the privilege of knowing his origins and his culture of African origin in contact with Senghor. His poem is designed as a verbal bomb to fight slavery and colonialism. He expresses his feelings of revolt against the nameless poverty that strikes his country and launches a call for revolt against the colonizer. We also note that the link of influence of Beaumarchais on Césaire is not direct but passes through Césaire's deep knowledge of the French Revolution and the philosophy of the Enlightenment.

This study compares two literary works by the Swedish author Sara Stridsberg. One of the books is an adult novel, titled Beckomberga (2014), and the second book is a children’s book with illustrations, titled Dyksommar (2019).The latter is partly based on the same story as in Beckomberga. Both literary works feature a female protagonist, both with a father that is hospitalized in a mental hospital. The study examines and compares the narrator’s voice in both books, with a starting point from the French literary theorist Gérard Genette. This study also examines a character called Sabina, which  appears in both in the novel and  the children’s book. I examine in which ways the two protagonists’ relationship with Sabina is being characterized. Sabina is a patient in the same mental hospital, and the two female protagonists are intrigued – intrigued to visit their father, to socialize with Sabina and to discover the life that progress within the walls of the hospital.