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Based on the extensive goals and mission in the Swedish curriculum regarding literature and analysis, this study examines how said curriculum and two textbooks, for the third course in Swedish in upper secondary school, suggests learning activities for literary analysis. Using content analysis and an adapted model of paradigms as a framework, themes are reviewed for how literary analysis is described and literature teaching is prescribed. The results show that the dominating paradigms in the subject purpose-text is mainly learner oriented and cultural, while the course content text and evaluation text is dominantly focused on the formal aspects of literature. The evaluation text is also notably void of learner-oriented focus. The textbooks show a priority of the content-oriented paradigms and are shown to differ greatly from the paradigms of the curriculum. The results of the textbooks are noticeably similar and suggest congruency in priorities between textbook authors, while the differences between curriculum documents are major. The results are discussed in relation to the Swedish political discourse of measurability in learning, and in relation to the textbook making process and its influences.