Vilda pojkar, värde och varaktighet

“Wild Boys, Value, and Longevity. Literary Value Valuation in the Cases Mälarpirater by Sigfrid Siwertz The Yearling Marjorie Rawlings” valuation of literature, authorships, individual texts ripples through time space like waves. This pilot study which initiates a more extensive project on value considers (1911) Rawlings (1938) traces literary these award-winning texts, usually seen as classic youth novels about wild boys. authors were at approximately same stage their authorial life cycles publication, both have been subject to major renegotiations terms value, but they are worlds apart when it comes rhetorical position style. article draws up an inventory actors value-creating acts process, discusses similarities differences between two works that belong such divergent contexts Swedish American arenas. Conceptually, our readings draw ideas from Pierre Bourdieu Raymond Williams operationalise combination relation value. In comparative analysis, we apply categories previous research: style form, knowledge, emotional, social, economic values. authorships provide numerous examples grounds for upward devaluation. classification novels, not least based paratextual aspects, proves be significant. Both or less forgotten today, survived much longer than themselves.