The subject of this thesis is the social-adventure novel which was popular in the 1840s and early 1850s in Sweden. In contrast to literary critics who have tended to regard the thrilling plot of the genre as merely a way of creating effects, I try to analyze the plot as a bearer of both meaning and ideology. Inspired by the Russian scholar Mikhail Bakhtin, I define the plot in the genre as an adventure-plot, with links back to the novel of Antiquity. In an introductory chapter I discuss theories of genres which resembles the social- adventure novel. I conclude the chapter with a brief discussion of the differences between the adventure novel and the biographical novel. In chapter 2 I look into the reception of the social-adventure novel by contemporary critics. In the first case-study, I examine Samvetet eller Stockholms mysterier, 1850, (The Conscience or the Mysteries of Stockholm), by C. F. Ridderstad. By means of the ad­venture-plot we are introduced to everyday life in Stockholm in the middle of the cen­tury. But the adventure-plot also had other possibilities. It could be used to examine the various competitive moral and ideological views that were current at the time. In the second case-study, I analyze a variant of the social-adventure novel which deals with the development of the individual. The need to examine ideology and its values is essential in the historical-adventu­re novel. This case-study contains readings of novels by Ridderstad, J. A. Kiellman- Göranson and C. J. L. Almqvist. The function of the plot in the historical-adventure novel is to test the "natural" qualities of the heroes; to examine the ideology of the vil­lain; and finally to claim that history in the end depends upon the (im) moral actions of the individual. This is created through the mixture in the novels of historical time and adventure-time. The thesis ends with an analysis of a novel by Viktor Rydberg, Den siste athenaren, 1859, (The Last Athenian). In this novel there is also an adventure plot, but no ad- venture-time. The reason for this is that Rydberg only uses the adventure plot for his own monologic view of history and the destiny of mankind. Rydberg's novel marks an ending. It stands as the final expression of that period which began in the 1830s, in which the novel emerged as a leading genre in Swedish literature. / <p>Diss. Umeå : Umeå universitet, 1990</p> / digitalisering@umu

PINHEIRO FILHO, José Humberto Carneiro. Um lugar para o tempo dos letrados: leituras, leitores e a Biblioteca Provincial do Ceará na segunda metade do século XIX. 2014. 144f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em História, Fortaleza (CE), 2014. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-09-02T14:51:53Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_dis_jhcpfilho.pdf: 1311021 bytes, checksum: f170c1ed33059b4e9c7f3badc7aa9b74 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-09-02T16:47:01Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_dis_jhcpfilho.pdf: 1311021 bytes, checksum: f170c1ed33059b4e9c7f3badc7aa9b74 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-09-02T16:47:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_dis_jhcpfilho.pdf: 1311021 bytes, checksum: f170c1ed33059b4e9c7f3badc7aa9b74 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / In 1915, one of the most widely read novels in the Provincial Library of Ceará from 1878 to 1887, The Adulterous Woman, by the Spanish Enrique Perez Escrich, was defined, in a kind of index, as "an unworthy work for household". Definitions like that one were not uncommon during the XIX century, when there was talk of novelistic stories. At that time, reading a novel was done among several impasses and interests, that is, consuming fiction books was a practice discussed by many crossed speeches. That is why speaking about historical uses of reading is to contribute to an analyses of book culture and of its place and meaning in a particular historical situation. Our work discusses the reading practices in the Provincial Library of Ceará, in the perspective of a critical mapping of books circuit in Fortaleza in the last decades of the XIX century. / Em 1915, um dos romances mais lidos na Biblioteca Provincial do Ceará entre 1878 e 1887, A mulher adúltera, do espanhol Enrique Perez Escrich, foi definido numa espécie de índex como “uma obra indigna de um lar”. Definições como essa não foram incomuns ao longo do século XIX quando se falava das histórias romanescas. Aqui, a leitura de um romance acontecia no meio de vários impasses e interesses. Ou seja, consumir ficção impressa era uma prática de muitos discursos cruzados. Por isso que falar dos usos históricos da leitura é contribuir para uma análise da cultura do livro, seu lugar e significado numa determinada configuração histórica. Nossa pesquisa discute as práticas de leitura na Biblioteca Provincial do Ceará na perspectiva de uma cartografia crítica do circuito das letras em Fortaleza nas últimas décadas do XIX.

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