This paper uses narrative theory to take a look at how speech is represented in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and how speech is connected to the characterisation of Frankenstein's Creature. The paper also looks at how the Creature's characterisation changes when he is made non-speaking in Richard Brinsley Peake 1823 stage play Presumption and the 1931 film Frankenstein. In these two adaptations, the Creature's characterisation is changed to make him less complex, and simultaneously both more innocent and more monstrous. By connecting this change to Disability Studies, this paper finds that using disabled traits to dehumanise disabled people is not uncommon in fiction, and that using an autistic trait in a fictional monster can reinforce harmful stereotypes about autistic people.

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This study examines the selection and portrayal of the romantic era’s authors and literary traits in three textbooks for the upper secondary course Swedish 2 using hermeneutic qualitative analysis with comparative elements. The textbooks are examined through the lens of gender oriented and postcolonial literary theories. The results show that the textbooks present a unified view of the traits of the romantic era and uphold the author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as the main representative of the ideals of the romantic era. Female authors are largely underrepresented in two of the textbooks, and treated differently from male authors in all textbooks, with more emphasis being placed on their private lives, relationships with men and engagement in women’s issues rather than literary and societal impact. Non-western authors and literary works are completely absent from the sections on romanticism, and postcolonial themes in romantic literature are largely overlooked.

The goal of this essay is to examine the gender systems and potential critique of these gender systems in Makten and Felet med Eden using a discourse analysis and a character analysis focused on gender. These findings are then tested for their potential didactic potential, and this is connected to the values that must be present in Swedish schools. This essay finds that both books have aspects that confirm and contradict current gender norms. Makten contains a lot of critique of these structures, while Felet med Eden is somewhat contradictory in its critique. Both books were found to have didactic potential and could favorably be used in work focused on gender from the perspective of the fundamental values of the Swedish school system (värdegrunden).

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I licentiatavhandlingen undersöks litterär piktorialism, ett litterärt grepp som innebär att verkets gestaltade objekt jämförs med, beskrivs som eller representeras i termer av visuella, ikoniska representationer, som till exempel tavlor, fotografier eller skulpturer. För att belysa piktorialismens funktion och effekt analyseras ett antal dikter av Ella Hillbäck och Tomas Tranströmer. / Visualitet i svensk modernistisk och postmodernistisk lyrik. En studie i samspel mellan ord och bild

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