New thematic section from Culture Unbound: ?Literary Public Spheres?
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Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural
research is an open access e-journal that seeks
to be a forum for contemporary, cutting edge
cultural research from a wide range of
disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas.
Culture Unbound has just published a new
thematic section entitled ?Literary Public
Spheres?, edited by Torbjörn Forslid and Anders Ohlsson.
In today?s literary public sphere, different
artistic and commercial interests converge.
Dissolution of genres and transgression of
borders has become the rule, rather than the
exception. The objective of this thematic
section on ?Literary Public Spheres? is to
broaden the scope of literary studies by
exploring how both writers and readers employ
literature for a variety of purposes in a wide
range of public settings. It considers the
public conversation about literature, as a
crucial part of literature itself and explores
how literary texts become the subject of debate,
negation or dialogue centred on contemporary
values and opinions of popular concern.
This overarching theme covers a wide field of
more specific scholarly perspectives that
explore literature?s shifting role in different
public spheres, past as well as present.
Subjects include the press of 18th century
Scandinavia, Postsoviet educational policy,
historical lexicography, the visual performance
of authorship, the role of the essayist and the
mechanisms of present day book blogging, while
the theoretical perspectives range from Jürgen Habermas to Friedrich Kittler.
Featured articles are:
Torbjörn Forslid & Anders Ohlsson, ?Literary Public Spheres?
Patrik Lundell, ?Participation, Representation
and Media System: Habermasian Paths to the Past?
Emma Eldelin, ?An Amateur?s Raid in a World of
Specialists? The Swedish Essay in Contemporary Public Debates?
Ann Steiner, ?Personal Readings and Public
Texts: Book Blogs and Online Writing about Literature?
Karin Sarsenov, ?The Literature Curriculum in
Russia: Cultural Nationalism vs. The Cultural Turn?
Jon Helgason, ?Why ABC Matters: Lexicography and Literary History?
Torbjörn Forslid & Anders Ohlsson, ?The Author
on Stage: Björn Ranelid as Performance Artist?
You can access all articles for free at:
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We also welcome new article manuscripts in all
areas of cultural research, as well as proposals for future theme sections.
Martin Fredriksson
Executive Editor
Culture Unbound
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