Books
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The Magic Code: The use of magical
patterns in fantasy for children, Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell International
1988
(ed) Modern
litteraturteori och metod i barnlitteraturforskningen, Stockholm,
Centre for the study of childhood culture 1992
(ed) Voices
from far away. Current trends in international children's literature research,
Stockholm, Centre for the study of childhood culture 1995
(ed) Aspects
and Issues in the History of Children's Literature, Westport, CT,
Greenwood 1995
Children's Literature Comes of Age.Toward a new aesthetic New York,
Garland 1996. Korean translation 1998.
Introduction to the Theory of Children's Literature. Tallinn, Tallinn University
Press 1996; 2nd enlarged ed. 1997
Barnbokens byggklossar, Lund, Studentlitteratur 1998,
2nd revised and enlarged edition 2004. Danish translation Boernebogens
byggeklodser, Copenhagen, Hoest 2001.
(with Ulla Bergstrand) Läckergommarnas kungarike. Om
matens roll i barnlitteraturen
("The Realm of Gourmands. The function of food in children's
literature"), Stockholm, Centre for the study of
childhood culture 1999
From Mythic to Linear. Time in children's literature, Lanham, Scarecrow 2000.
Paperback reprint
2003.
Bilderbokens
pusselbitar, Lund, Studentlitteratur 2000. Danish
translation Billedbogens pusslespil, Copenhagen, Hoest 2003.
(with Carole Scott) How Picturebooks Work, New York, Garland 2001
. Paperback edition 2006.
Japanese translation forthcoming.
The Rhetoric of Character in Children's
Literature,
Lanham, Scarecrow 2002. Paperback reprint 2003.
The Aesthetic
Approach to Children's Literature, Lanham, Scarecrow 2005
(with Sandra Beckett, eds)Beyond Babar: The European Tradition on Children's Literature. Lanham, Scarecrow 2006
Power, Voice and Subjectivity in Literature for Young Readers, New York, Routledge, 2009
Articles (a selection)
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The function of the charm, Labrys (London)
1981:7
Mod, vänskap och uppfyllda önskemål. Några milstolpar i den
ryska fantasilitteraturen (=Courage, Friendship and Fulfilled Wishes. Some
Milestones in Russian Fantasy), Barnboken 1984:2
Gamla
tabun upphävs i moderna ryska barnböcker (=Old Taboos Broken in Modern
Russian Children's Books), Rysk kulturrevy 1984:2
Bilderboken
som försvann. Några tendenser i den sovjetiska bilderboksskonsten (=The
Picturebook That Disappeared. Some Trends in the Soviet Picturebook Art), in: I bilderbokens värld, ed Kristin Hallberg & Boel Westin,
Stockholm, Liber 1985
Rimliga
orimligheter. Kornej Tjukovskijs dikter för barn (=Sensible Nonsense. Kornei
Chukovsky's Poetry for Children), in: Vällingsäck och sommarvind. Versen i
barnens värld, ed Vivi Edström & Märta Netterstad, Stockholm, Liber
1987
The marvelous within the everyday: fairy-tales by
Veniamin Kaverin, i: Proceedings of the international kongress
"Dimensions of the marvelous", ed Juliette Frölich, Oslo 1987
Edith Nesbit - the maker of modern fairy tales, Marvels
and Tales 1987:1(1)
The insignificance of time: Red Shift, Children's
Literature Association Quarterly 1989:14(3)
How fantasy is made. Patterns and structures in The
Neverending story by Michael Ende, Marvels and Tales 1990:4(1)
A typological approach to the study of The root
cellar, Canadian Children's Literature 1991:63
Barnkultur i glasnost-tider (=Children's Culture in
the Time of Glasnost), Opsis Kalopsis 1991:3/4
En text
undersöker sig själv. Metafiktionen i barn- och ungdomslitteraturen (=A Text
Investigates Itself. Metafiction in Children's Literature), in: Svensklärarföreningens
årsskrift 1991
Härmande
eller dialog? Den intertextuella analysen (=Imitation or Dialogue?
Intertextual Analysis), in: Modern litteraturteori och metod i
barnlitteraturforskningen, ed Maria Nikolajeva, Stockholm, Centre for the
study of childhood culture 1992
Igenkännandets
glädje: C S Lewis Narniaböcker i strukturalistisk belysning (=The Joy of
Recognition: C S Lewis' Narnia books from structuralist perspective), in: Modern
litteraturteori och metod i barnlitteraturforsningen, ed Maria
Nikolajeva, Stockholm, Centre for the study of childhood culture 1992
Typologiska studier av barnlitteratur: till
kenotypbegreppet (=Typological Studies of Children's Literature: Toward the
Notion of Kenotype), Barnboken 1992:1
Fantasy: The Evolution of a Pattern, in: Fantasy
and Feminism in Children's Books, ed Rhonda Bunbury, Geelong, Deakin
University Press 1993
Alan
Garners magiska landskap (=Alan Garner's Magical Landscapes, in: Läseboken.
Festskrift till Ulf Boethius, ed Carina Lidström, Eslöv, Symposion
1993
Klassiker
- bara för nostalgiska vuxna? (=Classics - Just for
Nostalgic Adults?) Opsis Kalopsis 1994:2
Stages of transformation: folklore elements in
children's novels, Canadian hildren's Literature 1994:73
Children's literature as a cultural code: a semiotic
approach to history in: Aspects and Issues of the History of Children's
Literature, ed. Maria Nikolajeva, Westport, Greenwood 1995
Katherine
Paterson, in: De skriver för barn och ungdom. Svenska och översatta
nutidförfattare, Lund, Btj 1995
Patricia
MacLachlan, in: De skriver för barn och ungdom. Svenska och översatta
nutidförfattare, Lund, Btj 1995
Diana
Wynne Jones, in: De skriver för barn och ungdom. Svenska och översatta
nutidförfattare, Lund, Btj 1995
Russian Children's Literature Before and After
Perestroika, ChLA Quarterly 1995:20 (3)
Tormod Haugen - postmodernist (=Tormod Haugen -
Postmodernist), in: Tormod Haugen - en artikkelsamling, ed Ola Loslök
& Bjarne Öygarden, Oslo, Gyldendal, 1995; reprinted in: Nye veier til
barneboka, ed Harald Bache-Wiig, Oslo, Cappelen 1997
Söder om
solen. Om barnlitteratur i Sydafrika (=South of the Sun.
Children's Literature in South Africa), Opsis Kalopsis 1995:5
Pigs aren't meant to have fun: The swedishness of
Swedish children's literature, in: Other worlds, other lives, ed Myrna
Machet et al, Pretoria, UNISA Press, 1996, vol I
Literature as a rite of passage: A new look at
genres Compar(a)ison 1995:2
Literature for Children and Young People in: The
History of Swedish literature, ed Lars Warme, Lincoln, NE, University of
Nebraska Press 1996
Barnlitteratur: en berättelse om konsten att växa
upp (=Children's Literature: The Story About Growing Up), in: Konsten att
berätta för barn,
Stockholm, Centre for the study of childhood culture
1996
(with
Ulla Bergstrand) Läckergommarnas kungarike. Matens
funktion i barnlitteraturen (=The Realm of Gourmands. The Function of Food in
Children's Literature), Barnboken 1996:2
The "serendipity" of censorship, Para*doxa 1996:3-4
Hur en
nationell litteratur definierar sig själv (=How National Literature Defines
Itself), Horisont 1996:6
Barnkultur - vuxnas skydd mot ondskan (=Children's
Culture - Adults' Protection Against Evil) Opsis Kalopsis 1997:1
Reflections of change in children's books titles,
in: Reflections of Change, ed Sandra Beckett, Westport, CT, Greenwood
1997
National identity in minority literature for
children: the case of Swedish-language literature in Finland, in: Gunpowder
and Sealing-Wax: Nationhood in Children's Literature, ed Ann Lawson
Lucas, Hull, Troubador 1997
The child as self-deceiver: narrative strategies in
Katherine Paterson's and Patricia MachLachlan's novels, Papers 1997:7
(1)
On the egde of childhood. Bookbird 1997:35(2)
Two national heroes - Jacob Two-Two and Pippi
Longstocking, Canadian Children's Literature 1997:86
Vivien
Alcock, in: Författare och illustratörer för barn och ungdom 1 A-B,
Lund, Btj 1998
Cecil
Bödker, in: Författare och illustratörer för barn och ungdom 1 A-B,
Lund, Btj 1998
Vad
lämnar vi efter oss till våra barn? Framtidsvisioner
i barn- och ungdomslitteraturen (=What Are We Leaving to Our Children?
Visions of
Future in Children's Literature), Opsis Kalopsis 1998:2
Exit children's literature? The lion and the
unicorn 1998: 22(2)
Susan
Cooper, in: Författare och illustratörer för barn och ungdom 2, Lund,
Btj 1998
Med Bachtin mot 2000-talet (=With Bakhtin Toward the
21st Centrury). Vår lösen 1998: 3/3
Från Nils Holgersson till datorernas död: Stockholm
i barnlitteraturen (=From Nils Holgersson to the Death of Computers:
Stockholm in Children's Literature, Opsis Kalopsis 1998:3
Janne min vän - en väg utan återvändo (=Johnny My
Friend - Beyond the Point of No Return), in: Forankring och
fornying. Den
nordiske ungdomsromanen ed Eli Flatekval. Oslo, Cappelen 1999
Children's, Adult, Human..? in: Transcending
Boundaries. Writing for A Dual Audience of Children and Adults, ed Sandra
Beckett, New York, Garland 1999
Patricia MacLachlan in Författare och illustratörer för
barn och ungdom
5, Lund, Btj 1999
Katherine
Paterson in: Författare och illustratörer för barn och ungdom 6, Lund,
Btj 1999
Hur man skapar en succé: Fenomenet Harry Potter
(=How to Create a Success: The Harry Potter Phenomenon). Opsis Kalopsis
2000:1
(with Janina Orlov) A Room of One's Own: The
Advantage and Dilemma of Finno-Swedish Children's Literature, in: Text,
Culture and National Identity in Children's Literature, ed Jean Webb,
Helsinki, Nordinfo, 2000
Toward Linearity: A Narrative Reading of The Mouse
and His Child in: Russell Hoban: Forty Years, ed Alida Allison. New
York, Garland, 2000
Fantasy literature and fairy tales, Slavic and
Baltic Countries, Scandinavian Countries and a number of short entries in: Oxford
Companion of Fairy Tales, ed Jack Zipes. Oxford, Oxford UP, 2000
Narratologisk
teori och dess tillämpning i barnlitteraturforskningen (=Narrayive Theiory
and Its Application in Children's Literature Research, in: Aspekter på
narrativitet, ed Ulf Palmenfelt, Åbo: Nordiskt nätverk för folkloristik,
2000
Children's Literature comes of age? By Way of
Introduction (in Chinese), Zhongguo Ertong Wenxuw - Chinese
children's literature (Beijing), 2000:2
(with Carole Scott) Fra symmetri till kontrapunkt:
Billebogen som kunstform (=From Symmetry to Counterpoint: Picturebook as an
Art Form. I: Børns
billedbøger og billeder, ed Anne Mørck Hansen. Copenhangen,
Høst & Søn 2000
Tamed Imagination. A Rereading of Heidi, ChLA
Quarterly 2000:2
The Power of Language: Ana Maria Machado. Bookbird
2000:3
(with Carole Scott) Dynamics of Picturebook
Comminication. Children's Literature in Education 2000:4
På väg mot en teori över litterära karaktärer i
barnlitteraturen (=Toward a theory of literary character in children's
fiction). Barnboken 2000:2
Barnbokens väg i Mittens Rike (=The Way of
Children’s Literature in the Middle Realm; on Chinese children’s literature), Opsis Kalopsis 2000:4
The Changing Aesthetics of Character in Children's
Fiction. Style 2001 vol 35 no 3
The Art of Self-deceit. Narrative Strategies in
Katherine Paterson’s Novels, in Bridges for the Young: The Fiction of
Katherine Paterson, ed. Joel Chaston & Sarah
Smedman. Lanham, MD, Scarecrow, 2001
(with Carole Scott) Images of the Mind. The
Depiction of Consciousness in Picturebooks, Creata (Sydney, Australia)
2001:1
Imprints of the Mind: The Depiction of Consciousness
in Children's Fiction. ChLA Quarterly 2001-2002:4
Heterotopia as a Reflection of Postmodern
Consciousness in the Novels of Diana Wynne Jones, in Diana Wynne Jones: An
Exciting and Exacting Wisdom, ed, Teya Rosenberg. New York: Peter Lang,
2002
The Verbal and the Visual. The Picturebook as a
Medium, in Children's Literature as Communication, ed. Roger Sell.
Amsterdam: John Benjamin, 2002
Growing up. The Dilemma of Children's Literature, in
Children's Literature as Communication, ed. Roger Sell. Amsterdam:
John Benjamin, 2002
"A Dream of Complete Idleness." The
Depiction of Labor in Children's Literature. The Lion and the Unicorn
2002:3
Fairy Tales in Society's Service.Marvels & Tales2002, vol 16 no 2
Harry Potter - Return to the Romantic Hero, in Harry
Potter's World: Multidisciplinary Critical Perspectives, ed. Elizabeth
Heilman, New York, Routledge, 2002
Characterization in Picturebooks: Text/Image
Interaction, in Art,
Narrative and Childhood, ed.
Morag Styles and Eve Bearne, London, Trentham, 2003
Beyond the Grammar of Story, or How Can Children’s
Literature Criticism Benefit from Narrative Theory ChLA Quarterly 28 (2003) 1
Fairy Tales and Fantasy: From Archaic to Postmodern.Marvels & Tales2003 vol
17 no 1
Auktoritära män och otillförlitliga kvinnor: Genus och
berättande (=Authoritatve Men and Unrealiable Women. Gender and Narration),
in: Berättaren: En gäckande röst i texten, red. Lars-Åke Skalin.
Örebro: Universitetsbiblioteket, 2003
Crossvokalisering och subjektivitet: Den performativa
rösten i litteraturen (=Crossvocalization and Subjectivity: The performative
voice in literature). Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap 2003:1/2
The verbal and the visual
literacy: The role of picturebooks in the reading experience of young
children, in A Handbok of Research in Early Childhood Literacy, ed.
Jackie Marsh et al, London: Sage, 2003.
Toward a genuine narrative
voice, Bookbird 2004:1
Harry Potter och
barnlitteraturens hemligheter (=Harry Potter and the Secrets of Children’s
Literature). Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap 2003:4
Narrative Theory and
Children’s Literature, in: Routledge Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s
Literature, ed. Peter Hunt. Routledge, 2004.
Toward a
Theory of Literary Characters in Children’s Fiction, in: What a Character! ed. Nancy L. Roser & Miriam G.
Martinez. Newark, DE: International Reading Association, 2005
Stemme, magt og genus i børnelitteraturen. Passage
(Denmark) 2005:52
Børnelitteratur: kunst, pædagogik og magt. På opdagelse i børnelitteraturen, red. Nina Christensen & Anna Karlskov Skyggebjerg. Höst, 2005
Word and Image, in Teaching Children’s Literature, ed. Charles Butler, Palgrave, 2006
New Masculinities, New Femininities: Swedish Young Adult Fiction towards the Twenty-first Century. Changing Concepts of Childhood and Children’s Literature, ed.Vanessa Joosen och Katrien Vloeberghs. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006
Skriket från jungeln – befrielse eller regression? På terskelen. Artikler om nordisk barne- og ungdomslitteratur, red. Harald Bache-Wiig. Oslo: Novus, 2006
(with Carole Scott) Dynamics of picturebook communication, Children’s Literature: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, ed. Peter Hunt, vol 1, London, Routledge
The Changing Aesthetics of Character in Children’s Literature, Children’s Literature: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, red. Peter Hunt, vol 3, London, Routledge
A Misunderstood Tragedy. Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Books” in: Beckett, Sandra and Maria Nikolajeva. Beyond Babar. The European Tradition in Children’s Literature. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 2006.
What do we translate when we translate children’s literature. in Beckett, Sandra and Maria Nikolajeva. Beyond Babar. The European Tradition in Children’s Literature. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 2006.
What is Theory, and Why and How We Could, or Should, Use It. Canadian Children's Literature 2006:1
Girls Take Over in Swedish Young Adult Fiction Swedish book review, Supplement 2006
Children’s Literature: Subject, Voice and Power. The Grimm Award Acceptance Speech. IICLO Bulletin vol 29, 2006
Voice, Gender and Alterity in George MacDonald's Fairy Tales. In "The Noble Unrest": Contemporary Essays on the Work of George MacDonald, ed. by Jean Webb, Cambridge Scholar Press, 2007
Books Every Canadian should read, Canadian Children's Literature 2007:2
Astrid Lindgren – famous and unknown. [Introduction to] Special issue: The liberated child: Childhood in the works of Astrid Lindgren, Barnboken 2007:1-2
Play and Playfulness in postmodern picturebooks, in Postmodern Picturebooks: Play, Parody, and Self-Referentiality, ed. by Lawrence Sipe, New York, Routledge, 2008
The Identification Fallacy: Perspective and Subjectivity in Children’s Literature, in a collection of essays ed. by Michael Cadden, Nebraska UP (forthcoming)
Zakaj Pika spi z nogami na blazini ali subverzija moči v delih Astrid Lindgren (Why Does Pippi Sleep with Her Feet on Her Pillow, or Subversion of Power in Astrid Lindgren’s Works). Otrok in knjiga, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2007:69
Det självutlämnande jaget: Den fiktiva dagboken i barn- och ungdomslitteratur (The self-exposing I: Fictive Diaries in Children's Literature), in Barnlitteraturanalyser, ed. Maria Andersson and Elina Druker, Lund, Studentlitteratur, 2008.
“The stuff from which dreams are made”. Om George MacDonalds esoteriska romanser (“The stuff from which dreams are made”. On George MacDonald’s esoteric romances”), in: Esoterism i litteraturen, ed Mattias Fyhr, Stockholm, Ellerstöm, 2008
Harry Potter and the secrets of children’s literature, in: Harry Potter's world: Multidisciplinary critical perspectives, ed Elizabeth Heilman, 2nd revised edition, New York, Routledge, 2008
Comparative children’s literature: What is there to compare? Papers 2008:1
Theory, Post-Theory, and Aetonormative Theory, Neohelicon: Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universalum 2009:2
Visual Literacy and the Implied readers of children’s picturebooks. ID EST 1 (2009) 2
Time and Totalitarianism, International Journal of the Fantastic in Art 20 (2009) 2
”The bravest man I ever knew”. Adult Heroism and Role Modeln in the harry Potter Novels, in: Heroism in J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter. New York: Peter Lang, 2009
Devils, Demons, Familiars, Friends. The Semiotics of Literary Cats. Marvel and Tales 2009:2
Translation and crosscultural reception, in: Handbook of research on children’s and young adult literature, ed Karen Coats et al, New York, Routledge (forthcoming)
The development of children’s fantasy, Modern Fantasy Literature, ed Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming)
Fiction
Var är
solen? (Where
is the sun?, picturebook) Illustrated by Vladimir Galatsky. Stockholm, Carlsen
1987 (translated into Finnish, Danish and Dutch)
Vem sa
det först? (Who
said it first?, picturebook) Illustrated by Vladimir Galatsky. Stockholm, Carlsen 1989
En jul i
Moskva (’Christmas in Moscow’, short story), in Jul när jag var liten,
Stockholm, Rabén & Sjögren 1992
Nedräkningen (Final
countdown, novel), Stockholm, Rabén & Sjögren 1993 (translated into
Danish and Lithuanian)
Det finns inga kungar
(There is no such rhing as kings, novel), Stockholm, Rabén & Sjögren 1994
Renata
och sjökungen (’Renata and the Sea King’, short story), in Världen i
Sverige, Stockholm, Litteraturfrämjandet 1996
Orpheus i
underlandet (’Orpheus in Wonderland’, short story, Vi July 1997
Evigt ägs
blott det förlorade (’Only the lost is eternal’, short story) in Det nya
landet, Gothenburg, Lindelöw 1998
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