• Playing With Esotericism. Frank Heller’s Novel Andarna och Furustolpe (The Spirits and Furustolpe) and His Short Stories on Séances 

  Hedman, Dag (LIR. journal, 2020)

  Frank Heller (pen name of Ph.D. Gunnar Serner, 1886–1947) published suspense fiction from 1913 to 1947, mostly adventure stories, but also some in the crime genre and some science fiction. He had a keen eye for the ...

• From Chorazin to Carcosa. Fiction-Based Esotericism in the Black Pilgrimage of Jack Parsons and Cameron 

  Hedenborg White, Manon (LIR. journal, 2020)

  Rocketeer, poet, and polyamorous proto-feminist, Jack Parsons (1914-1952) is one of the earliest and most legendary followers of Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) and his religion Thelema in America. A precocious only child ...

• Gustav Meyrink’s The Golem. A Sensationalist Shlock Novel or an Esoteric Vision of the World? 

  Wistrand, Sten (LIR. journal, 2020)

  Gustav Meyrink lived in a time when the interest in spiritism, theo sophy and occult phenomena was widespread. He joined about every esoteric society available, attended séances, ex pe rimented with diets and drugs, and ...

• Esoteric Encounters. The Queen of Sheba in Solomon’s Temple 

  Önnerfors, Andreas (LIR. journal, 2020)

  How do literary motifs migrate and translate into esoteric imagination? What is their mutual interdependence? The case discussed in this article, an episode in the half-fictitious, half-documentary Voyage en Orient ...

• Editorial - Introduction 

  Bogdan, Henrik (LIR. journal, 2020)

• Alcina rediviva. Transformations of an Enchantress in Early Librettos 

  Hedman, Dag (LIR. journal, 2019)

  The aim of this study is to follow the transformations in eighteen librettos of the enchantress Alcina from Ludovico Ariosto’s popular chivalric epic Orlando furioso (1516–1532). The librettos used were printed in ...

• Tears for Nina. Emotion and Compassion, from the Stage to the Audience 

  Tufano, Lucio (LIR. journal, 2019)

  A recurrent feature of the reception of Giovanni Paisiello’s Nina o sia La pazza per amore (first version, in one act, 1789; second version, in two acts, 1790) is the deep empathic involvement of the audience. The ...

• A Song of Other Times. The Transformation of Ossian in Calzabigi’s and Morandi’s Comala (1774/1780) 

  Tessing Schneider, Magnus (LIR. journal, 2019)

  The opera libretto Comala (1774) by Ranieri Calzabigi has traditionally been regarded as one of the poet’s lesser creations. It has sometimes been dismissed as being too closely based on Melchiorre Cesarotti’s influential ...

• Editorial - Introduction 

  Tessing Schneider, Magnus (LIR. journal, 2019)

• FORMER OCH FUNKTIONER I GESTALTNINGEN AV ÖVERVAKNING OCH KONTROLL I 1600-TALETS MUSIKTEATERLIBRETTI 

  Hedman, Dag (2019)

  A striking feature of 17th century musical dramas is the regular occurrence of motifs aiming to intensify the dramatic tension, such as espionage, surveillance, physical control and imprisonment. Through which forms are ...

• OBSERVATION, CONTROL AND SIR THOMAS MORE 

  Sivefors, Per (LIR. journal, 2019)

  It is hardly controversial to say that the Elizabethan play Sir Thomas More (1592–93?) is insistently preoccupied with issues of surveillance, control and punishment. In its depiction of the Ill May Day Riots in 1517 ...

• GUSTAV III:S POLIS I EUROPEISKT PERSPEKTIV 

  Mattsson, Annie (LIR. journal, 2019)

  In 1776 a new police establishment (”politiinrättning”) opened in Stockholm – the first step towards a modern police system. The reform was typical of its time. 17th century Europe entailed a successive development of ...

• Editorial - Introduktion 

  Rosengren, Cecilia (LIR. journal, 2019)

• A New Niche in Children’s Literature. Norm-­Crit Picture Books in Sweden 

  Hermansson, Kristina; Nordenstam, Anna (LIR. journal, 2017)

  The publishing of norm-critical children’s literature is a relatively new literary phenomena in Sweden. This article aims to map the new literary niche in relation to ideological and cultural contexts. The main questions ...

• Performativity and the Construction of Children’s Citizenship in Backa Theatre’s Staging of Lille Kung Mattias (2009/2010) 

  Grehn, Sandra (LIR. journal, 2017)

  The aim of this article is to investigate and explain how performativity, as defined by J.L. Austin and Judith Butler, can be viewed as an important element within the narrative framework of Lille Kung Mattias (Little ...

• Protection and Agency in Children’s Gothic. Multiple Childhood(s) in Angela Sommer­Bodenburg’s Der kleine Vampir 

  Kostenniemi, Peter (LIR. journal, 2017)

  The child in gothic fiction is often interpreted as a symbol of adult fears, and childhood in this context is therefore stripped of intentionality. This article discusses the representation of childhood as performed ...

• Max Lundgren and the Development of Children’s Rights in Swedish Children’s Literature around ’68 

  Widhe, Olle (LIR. journal, 2017)

  The purpose of this article is to explore the relationship between left-wing children’s literature and the concept of children and children’s rights in Sweden around ’68. The main focus is on the picture book Sagan om ...

• The Child in the Forest. Performing the Child in 20th Century Swedish Picture Books 

  Brudin Borg, Camilla; Ullström, Margaretha (LIR. journal, 2017)

• Editorial - Introduction 

  Nordenstam, Anna; Widhe, Olle (LIR. journal, 2017)

• Kritiskt tänkande i skolan. Betraktat genom radikal estetik, medialisering och en poetisk performance av Athena Farrokhzad 

  Alfredsson, Johan (LIR. journal, 2017)

  Over the last decade, the Swedish school system has been discussing the intersection between aesthetics and learning with much enthusiasm. The aim of this article is to show how this discussion can be invigorated by ...

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