Sara Tanderup Linkis

Litteratursociologi er studiet af litteraturen i samfundet, samfundet i litteraturen og litteratursamfundet. Det litteratursociologiske felt udvides i mange teoretiske og metodiske retninger og omfatter nu flere discipliner, hvilket giver anledning til at stille spørgsmålstegn ved, om termen fortsat kan noget i sig selv, eller om “litteratursociologien” simpelthen har sejret sig selv ihjel.I Passage 89 samles aktuelle perspektiver på litteratursociologi for at undersøge, hvordan feltet udvikler sig. Hvad er de nye teoretiske orienteringer, metoder og værktøjer i litteratursociologien, og hvilken viden kan de bidrage med? Hvordan kan vi i dag studere litteraturen i samfundet, samfundet i litteraturen og litteratursamfundet? Nummeret indeholder bidrag fra danske, norske og svenske forskere og har til formål at fortsætte diskussionerne inden for skandinavisk litteratursociologisk forskning. Artiklerne dækker emner som samfundsproblematikker i dansk samtidslitteratur, genopdagelsen af Tove Ditlevsens forfatterskab, receptionen af svenske Kristina Sandbergs værker, brugen af Instagram i forfatterpraksis, litterært feltarbejde, litteraturformidling på festivaler og i public service-medier samt anvendelse af digitale metoder i litteraturforskning. Nummeret afsluttes med et indlæg fra Anne Fastrups doktordisputats om orientalisme i tidlig moderne europæisk litteratur. Passage 89 undersøger grænseområderne mellem litteratur og sociologi og bidrager til den fortsatte udvikling af litteratursociologien.

TikTok är en av samtidens främsta lekplatser. Vad som helst och vem som helst kan hitta en målgrupp. TikToks popularitet har inte gått obemärkt förbi, vare sig i forskningen, politiken eller i den offentliga debatten. På bara några år har appen vuxit till en av världens populäraste och mest omdebatterade digitala plattformar. Den är medskapare till populärkulturella trender med stor påverkan på andra plattformar och kulturella branscher. På många sätt utgör TikTok sinnebilden av dagens globaliserade masskultur. I den här boken närmar sig ett antal kulturforskare fenome- net TikTok för att förstå vad plattformen berättar om dagens samhälle, vilka funktioner den har för identitetsskapande och gemenskap, samt vilka behov den tillfredsställer hos användarna. Vi intresserar oss för både smala nischer och breda trender. Vi frågar oss hur plattformens genomslag kan förstås i relation till dess algoritmer och tekniska lösningar. Boken fokuserar på TikTok som mötesplats där kulturella fenomen och praktiker uppstår, utvecklas, korsas och sprids, samt låter sig studeras. Plattformens heterogenitet återspeglas i kapitlen, som behandlar generationskonflikter, ljudmem, musikbranschen, hälsotrender, bokkultur, ”dark academia”, akademisk prekaritet, får, radioaktiva samlingar, män med maskiner och medelålders kvinnors sexualitet. Boken riktar sig både till dig som förundras över fenomenet TikTok i allmänhet och till dig som har ett särskilt intresse av de specificiteter, nischer och gemenskaper som beskrivs i de olika kapitlen.

Passage 91 sætter fokus på kærlighedsromanen eller romance, som genren populært kaldes i moderne bogkultur. Artiklerne i nummeret repræsenterer forskellige perspektiver på genren, både i et historisk lys og i forhold til aktuelle udviklinger, og bidrager dermed til forståelsen af en genre, som er central på bogmarkedet og dominerer de internationale bestsellerlister, men som samtidig ofte er fraværende i traditionel litteraturvidenskabelig forskning. Romance-genren kan spores langt tilbage, fra 1700-tallets brevromaner over 1800-tallets sentimentale fortællinger og victorianske ægteskabsplot til 1900-tallets lægeromaner eller kiosklitteratur med kulørte forsider. I dag oplever genren stor fremgang, bl.a. på grund af nye læsefællesskaber omkring genren på sociale medier og nye måder at tilgå og bruge litteratur på, f.eks. via lydbogsformatet. Nummeret indeholder fem nyskrevne artikler, som på forskellig vis giver indblik i disse udviklinger, idet vi balancerer mellem tekst-fokuserede læsninger og mere litteratursociologiske tilgange, der stiller skarpt på romancens sociale, økonomiske og mediale vilkår og forudsætninger. Artiklerne fokuserer bl.a. på queer-perspektiver på victorianske romaner, kropspositivisme og postfeminisme i moderne svensk romance, romancer skrevet til lydbogsformatet og studier af romancelytteres præferencer inden for genren, samt brug af romance-troper blandt læsere i bogfælleskaber på TikTok. Nummeret indeholder også to nyoversatte bidrag, som står som centrale tekster inden for romance-forskningen, af henholdsvis Janice Radway, hvis studie af en gruppe amerikanske romance-læsende kvinder har været helt afgørende for feltet, og Mark McGurl, som repræsenterer et nyt, internationalt perspektiv på genrens betydning i den moderne bogkultur. Endelig har vi et interview med en forlagsrepræsentant om udgivelse af romance i Danmark i dag. Samlet set leverer Passage 91 altså et bredt indblik i romancen som genre, i tekster såvel som kontekster, læserkultur, historiske perspektiver og aktuelle udviklinger.

Serialization is an old narrative strategy and a form of publication that can be traced far back in literary history, yet serial narratives are as popular as ever. This book investigates a resurgence of serial narratives in contemporary literary culture. Analyzing series as diverse as Mark Z. Danielewski’s experimental book series The Familiar; audiobook series by the Swedish streaming service Storytel; children’s books by Lemony Snicket and Philip Pullman and their adaptations into screen; and serial writing and reading on the writing site Wattpad, the book traces how contemporary series at once are shaped by literary tradition and develop the format according to the logics of new media and digital technologies. The book sheds light on the interplay between the selected serials' narrative content and medial, social, and economic contexts, drawing on insights from literary studies, literary sociology, media studies, and cultural studies. Serialization in Literature Across Media and Markets thus contributes a unique and interdisciplinary perspective on a historical phenomenon that has proved ever more successful in contemporary media culture. It is a book for researchers and students of literature and media and for anyone who likes a good series and wants to understand why.

Serialization is an old narrative strategy and a form of publication that can be traced far back in literary history, yet serial narratives are as popular as ever. This book investigates a resurgence of serial narratives in contemporary literary culture. Analyzing series as diverse as Mark Z. Danielewski’s experimental book series The Familiar; audiobook series by the Swedish streaming service Storytel; children’s books by Lemony Snicket and Philip Pullman and their adaptations into screen; and serial writing and reading on the writing site Wattpad, the book traces how contemporary series at once are shaped by literary tradition and develop the format according to the logics of new media and digital technologies. The book sheds light on the interplay between the selected serials' narrative content and medial, social, and economic contexts, drawing on insights from literary studies, literary sociology, media studies, and cultural studies. Serialization in Literature Across Media and Markets thus contributes a unique and interdisciplinary perspective on a historical phenomenon that has proved ever more successful in contemporary media culture. It is a book for researchers and students of literature and media and for anyone who likes a good series and wants to understand why.

"If readers of Sara Tanderup Linkis’ "Something to hold on to …" open the book in the expectation of entering a niche of literature and literary studies, they will leave it after having encountered a new highway in literature. Here, the traditional theme of memory and the most recent use of digital media merge into a new understanding of the role of the book in the contemporary media landscape and of vicissitudes of memorial processes literature, which also offers a broader perspective on literature in human history. Spurred by Sara Tanderup Linkis’ sharp eye the readings of texts are lucid, engaging and offers so many ideas that teachers will renew their curricula, and readers will open the internet for more or rush to the library."— Svend Erik Larsen, professor emeritusMemory, Intermediality, and Literature investigates how selected literary works use intermedial strategies to represent and perform cultural memory. Drawing on the theoretical perspectives of cultural memory studies, this engaging, reader-friendly monograph examines new materialism and intermediality studies, analyzying works by Alexander Kluge, W.G. Sebald, Jonathan Safran Foer, Anne Carson, Mette Hegnhøj, William Joyce, J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst. The works emerge out of different traditions and genres, ranging from neo-avant-garde montages through photo-novels and book objects to apps and children’s stories. In this new monograph, Sara Tanderup Linkis presents an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, reading the works together, across genres and decades, and combining the perspectives of memory studies and materialist and media-oriented analysis. This approach makes it possible to argue that the works not only use intermedial strategies to represent memory, but also to remember literature, reflecting on the changing status and function of literature as a mediator of cultural memory in the age of new media. Thus, the works may be read as reactions to modern media culture, suggesting the ways in which literature and memory are affected by new media and technologies – photography and television as well as iPads and social media.

"If readers of Sara Tanderup Linkis’ "Something to hold on to …" open the book in the expectation of entering a niche of literature and literary studies, they will leave it after having encountered a new highway in literature. Here, the traditional theme of memory and the most recent use of digital media merge into a new understanding of the role of the book in the contemporary media landscape and of vicissitudes of memorial processes literature, which also offers a broader perspective on literature in human history. Spurred by Sara Tanderup Linkis’ sharp eye the readings of texts are lucid, engaging and offers so many ideas that teachers will renew their curricula, and readers will open the internet for more or rush to the library."— Svend Erik Larsen, professor emeritusMemory, Intermediality, and Literature investigates how selected literary works use intermedial strategies to represent and perform cultural memory. Drawing on the theoretical perspectives of cultural memory studies, this engaging, reader-friendly monograph examines new materialism and intermediality studies, analyzying works by Alexander Kluge, W.G. Sebald, Jonathan Safran Foer, Anne Carson, Mette Hegnhøj, William Joyce, J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst. The works emerge out of different traditions and genres, ranging from neo-avant-garde montages through photo-novels and book objects to apps and children’s stories. In this new monograph, Sara Tanderup Linkis presents an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, reading the works together, across genres and decades, and combining the perspectives of memory studies and materialist and media-oriented analysis. This approach makes it possible to argue that the works not only use intermedial strategies to represent memory, but also to remember literature, reflecting on the changing status and function of literature as a mediator of cultural memory in the age of new media. Thus, the works may be read as reactions to modern media culture, suggesting the ways in which literature and memory are affected by new media and technologies – photography and television as well as iPads and social media.

Exploring Text, Media, and Memory investigates the link between memory and media by asking a series of questions pertinent to our time: How do individual and collective memories blend? How do traumatic experiences from past events and catastrophic projections of the future reveal the human condition in the epoch of frenetic technological reproduction of works of art? How is the human body tied to narrations – and why? A group of international scholars tackle questions like these across art forms, media, and cultural history. In nineteen essays they argue that modern and contemporary literary texts and visual arts show how photography, film, tape recording, television, and internet are not just means of storing memory and information, but objects that we interact with every day – challenging static visions of places and the linear notions of past, present and future.