bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Lysthuset
Authors: Knudsen Karin Esmann
Published: October 2018

Haven som formidler af et indre rum
Duplik til Søren Kjørup
Authors: Holmgaard Jørgen
Published: October 2018

Der foregik i K&K 89 (pp.89-136) en debat om Jørgen Holmgaards bogTeoriens topik (1998). Den fortsætter i dette nummer med afsluttendeindlæg fra Søren Kjørup og Jørgen Holmgaard.
KunstnerFørerens æstetiske visioner og nazismens totale kunst
Authors: Bolt Mikkel
Published: October 2018

KunstnerFørerens æstetiske visioner og nazismens totale kunst
(Uden titel) Om historie og historisk metode
Authors: Nexø Tue Andersen
Published: October 2018

Carlo Ginzburg: Spor. Om historie og historisk metode
Hvad hjertet er fuldt af, løber pennen over med
Authors: Jørgensen Anton
Published: October 2018

(Om visse selvbiografiske træk ved Auerbachs Mimesis)
New literarity
Authors: Dahlerup Pil
Published: October 2018

Betragtninger over litteraturhistoriegenren
Bugtalen som udvej
Authors: Busk-Jensen Lise
Published: October 2018

A.S. Byatts postmoderne Besættelse
Satan tager ordet
Authors: Nexø Tue Andersen
Published: October 2018

Litteratur, genre og historie, belyst gennem Torquato Tassos Gerusalemme Liberata
Litterære karakterer mellem tekstualitet og mimesis
Authors: Hansen Nils Gunder
Published: October 2018

Litterære karakterer mellem tekstualitet og mimesis
Læk
Authors: Holmgaard Jørgen
Published: October 2018

Dan Ringgaard: Den poetiske lækage. Sophus Claussens lyrik, rejsebøger og essayistik, Kbh. 2000 (Museum Tusculanums forlag). Disputats.
Hold den hoppende
Authors: Egebak Jørgen
Published: October 2018

Et forsøg angående Thomas Pynchons The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
Erindring, ideologi og identitet i Don DeLillos Underworld
Authors: Lund Henrik Stampe
Published: October 2018

Erindring, ideologi og identitet i Don DeLillos Underworld
Hjemme hos det moderne gennembruds kvinder
Authors: Busk-Jensen Lise
Published: October 2018

Janet Garton (red.): Elskede Amalie. Brevvekslingen mellom Amalie og Erik Skram 1882-1899
Metonymi hos Proust
Authors: Genette Gérard
Published: October 2018

Fraværet af den bestemte artikel i Metonymi indeholder en mening, som det måske vil være passende at røbe: det drejer sig rigtigt nok her om et egennavn, og man ser straks af hvilken slags. Man siger ‘Metonymi hos Proust’ som man ville sige ‘Polymni hos Pindar’ eller ‘Clio hos Tacitus’, eller rettere ‘Polymni hos Tacitus’ og ‘Clio hos Pindar’, for så vidt som en gudinde ville kunne tage fejl af døren: blot en visit, men dog ikke uden konsekvens.
Ironiens uendelige frihed
Authors: Andersen Claus Elholm
Published: October 2018

Ironi i En dansk Students Eventyr
Bør læses
Authors: Holmgaard Jørgen
Published: October 2018

Peter Lützen: Et billede at læse med, Kbh. 2002 (Akademisk Forlag).
The Tell-Tale Heart
Authors: Nielsen Henrik Skov
Published: October 2018

The Tell-Tale Heart
Ekko over atlanten
Authors: Hansen Lisbeth Verstraete
Published: October 2018

Frankofone litteraturer som udfordring til litteraturhistorien
Dostojevskij og melankolien
Authors: Boysen Benjamin
Published: October 2018

Dostojevskijs lidelsesevangelium
Et viktig erindringspolitisk arbeid
Authors: Langås Unni
Published: October 2018

Anne Birgitte Richard: Køn og kultur. 1930ernes og 1940ernes kamp om køn, kultur og modernitet læst gennem kvindernes tekster. Kbh. 2005 (Museum Tusculanum).
Det umage par
Authors: Busk-Jensen Lise
Published: October 2018

Jorunn Hareide (red.): Magdalene Thoresen og Georg Brandes. En brevveksling 1865-1872, Oslo 2002 (Emilia forlag).
Handling i narratologien, litteraturen og livet
Authors: Grünbaum Thor
Published: October 2018

Action in Narratology, Literature, and LifeIn this article I argue that the representation of simple, bodily action has the function of endowing the narrative sequence with a visualizing power: It makes the narrated scenes or situations ready for visualization by the reader or listener. By virtue of this visualizing power or disposition, these narrated actions disrupt the theoretical divisions, on the one hand, between the narrated story and the narrating discourse, and on the other hand, between plot-narratology and discourse-narratology. As narrated actions they seem to belong to the domain of plot-narratology, but in so far as they serve an important visualizing function, these narrated actions have a communicative function and as such they can be said to belong to the domain of discourse-narratology. In a first part of the article, I argue that a certain type of plot-narratology, due to its retrospective epistemology and abstract definition of action, is unable to conceive of this visualizing function. In a second part, I argue that discourse-narratology fares no better since the visualizing function is independent of voice and focalization. In a final part, I sketch a possible account of the visualizing function of simple actions in narratives.
Fortæller og tema. Pontoppidans Mimoser læst igen
Authors: Holmgaard Jørgen
Published: October 2018

Narration and thematics. Pontoppidan’s Mimoser read once againIn Danish literary criticism Pontoppidan’s short novel Mimoser (1886) has maintained a reputation for being an enigmatic piece of fiction. What is it really about, and what is its point in the end? This paper approaches the text by close-reading the oblique, changing relationships between the implied narrator, the characters he presents, and the grim story he tells about how their life projects are ruined. In contrast to the elusive enunciation of the text, its thematic structure is very stable, however. The ‘vertical’ relationships between parents and their children persistently dominate the grown-up children’s wishes and futile attempts to form permanent ‘horizontal’ matrimonial relationships. Especially the dominance of the mother in relation to the son is decisive for the outcome of these conflicts. Eventually, the paper sketches what happens to the way Pontoppidan narrates in his long, monumental novels later on.
Tidens rytmik
Authors: Stougaard-Nielsen Jakob
Published: October 2018

Dante Alighieri, William Carlos Williams’ prosodi og Michel Serres Rhythm of TimeThe article discusses William Carlos Williams’s poetics and his particular conception of a modern prosody as expressed in the essay »Speech Rhythm« (1913) and as materialized in his experiments with a poetic form he himself termed »the variable foot« in »the triadic verse«. The article suggests that Williams’s poetics should be conceived as both an attempt to reinvigorate a typographically governed poetic language, his reaction to free verse, and as a larger figure for a poetic project which attempts to offer a poetic form to an unruly American idiom. Additionally, Williams’s new poetic measure is considered as an attempt to produce a poetic voice that could capture the rhythms and temporalities suggested by the modern age. Williams’s poetics present, then, a conflation of poetic scheme and trope, of prosody and anthropology, and are presented here as in tune with Ezra Pound, George Antheil, Albert Einstein and Michel Serres’ aesthetic and scientific abstractions of temporality. Williams’s poetic experiments offer a new measure for a modern »time«.
Genrens tøven
Authors: Sestoft Carsten
Published: October 2018

Romanens status i det 17. århundredes Frankrig The hesitations of a genre: The status of the novel in seventeenth-century FranceIn answering the question: What was the novel in seventeenth-century France? – this article provides insight into some important points of the early history of the genre. The contradiction between its non-existence in official (Aristotelian) poetics and its existence as a popular commodity on the book market was, in the course of the seventeenth century, reconciled in the emergent category of belles lettres as a plurality of genres mainly defined by their public of honnêtes gens, while attempts at legitimizing the novel as belonging to such Aristotelian genres as epic or history generally failed; and at the end of the century a number of convergences – between epic and novel, between the designations roman and nouvelle, and between the ‘high’ and ‘low’ forms of the novel – seem to point to the fact that the social existence of the genre had been strengthened, even if it was the English novel of the eighteenth century that could be said to reap the profits of this stronger position. Using historical semantics and cultural sociology to study the status of the novel in seventeenth-century France thus leads to a clearer understanding of the specificity of the novel as a literary and cultural genre.
Romanhistorie og topik: Kvinde-vogn-mand
Authors: Meiner Carsten Henrik
Published: October 2018

History of the novel and topica: Woman-carriage-manThe aim of the article is to analyse the function of the carriage in the European novel in the 17th and 18th centuries. The article is divided into three parts: the first one describes the historical, material, juridical and sociological conditions determining the carriage in the 17th century as a bourgeois object. The second part analyses the specific literary function of the carriage. Whereas »normal« carriages have the function of transferring people between two geographically fixed points, the function of the literary carriage is that of making this very transfer break down accidentally. In a very homogenous way passages from Furetière, Marivaux, Defoe, Diderot and Goethe all demonstrate the functioning of such a chance principle. As these passages also have the conventional function of bringing a couple together in the carriage, a new idea of love as a fundamentally contingent category is in fact the cultural offspring of these chance encounters in carriages.
Samuel Richardsons brevromaner
Authors: Hultén Martin
Published: October 2018

En litteraturhistorisk placering The Epistolary Novels of Samuel Richardson: Reconsidering the Historical PerspectiveThe epistolary novels of Samuel Richardson were received with enthusiasm throughout Britain and Europe upon their publication in the 1740s and 50s, and they have had their unquestioned place in the literary canon and the literary history of the 18th century, as well as in the many rivalling Rise of the Novel narratives, ever since. The qualities of Richardson’s novels praised by contemporary reading audiences and professional critics were to some extent the qualities we still acknowledge in the the works. And yet I propose to reconsider and modify our ‘historical’ understanding of Richardson’s novels. Richardson scholars from the 1970s onward have deepened our understanding of the contexts of Richardson’s life and writing, and they have shown to what extent both the style, the form, the motifs, and the themes of his novels must be placed alongside the works of rival authors, today much less known, and the comedies and tragedies of the restoration period, just to mention two important fields of inspiration for Richardson. On the basis of their findings we must conclude that the novels we read today when considering Richardson’s works as part of a formal literary history are not quite the same as the novels contemporary readers cherished. There are important differences as well as correspondences between the contemporary reception of Richardson’s works and the reception of professional scholars in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Hvordan er teksten i verden?
Authors: Larsen Svend Erik
Published: October 2018

Jørgen Bruhn: Romanens tænker – M.M. Bachtins romanteorier, Kbh.2005 (Multivers).
Nazismens kamp mod forfaldskunsten
Authors: Bolt Mikkel
Published: October 2018

Nazism’s Fight against the Art of Decay:The article presents a reading of the exhibition »Entartete Kunst« that took place in Munich in 1937. The exhibition was staged by the Nazi regime as an attempt to prove the dangerous nature of modern art. According to Nazi ideology, modern art was not just a reflection of unhealthy interests or degenerate racial mixings but was in itself a threat to the purity of the soul of the German people. Therefore modern art had to be excluded in order to make room for the appearance of the German people and its eternal art. Contrary to the idea of Nazism as being somehow not modern, the article stresses the modernist aspects of the Nazi ideology through a detailed account of Nazism’s racist ideology.
Når værk bliver til vold
Authors: Albinus Lars
Published: October 2018

When Work is Violence:Drawing on examples as divergent as current Muslim responses to the Danish cartoons and German terrorism in the 70s, this article aims to show how a closed alliance between art, politics and religion carries the risk of inducing violence which, among other things, annuls the function of art as being inherently ambiguous.It is argued that the function of art in Islam is bound up with the inviolable authority of the prophet and is therefore basically unable to fulfil satiric purposes. Although satire and laughter were also confined to unofficial activities under the Roman Church in medieval times, it is claimed, along the lines of Bakhtin, that a ‘culture of laughter’ actually did survive in the European history of art and paved the way for the appreciation of the potential of satirical critique. Following Benjamin, it is further claimed that the post-auratic function of art joined up with the revolutionary hope for a new aesthetics of life contrary to the fragmentary world of urban capitalism. Finally, as its major case, the article discusses the sliding of aesthetic provocation into political activism in 70s Germany resulting in Urban terrorism. In this case, the function of art once again falls back into a totalitarian critique which merely acknowledges a singular picture of the world. In conclusion, it is pointed out that aesthetic expressions are only imbued with an anti-violent vitality due to a non-condemning, ambiguous openness.
Historie, reformisme, totalitarisme og revolution
Authors: Bolt Mikkel
Published: October 2018

Mikkel Thorup, Hans-Jørgen Schanz og Mehdi Mozaffari (red): Totalitarisme. Venskab og fjendskab, Århus 2007 (Aarhus Universitetsforlag)
Om igen
Authors: Iversen Stefan
Published: October 2018

Annemette Hejlsted: Fortællingen i teori og analyse, Frederiksberg 2007 (Forlaget Samfundslitteratur).
Etiske lesninger i fiksjonens frirom
Authors: Gjelsvik Anne
Published: October 2018

Ethical Readings in the Unbiassed Sphere of Fiction:This article defends an ethical criticism of fiction film. Drawing on the so-called »ethical turn« in philosophy and literary criticism, as well as perspectives from new tendencies in cognitive film theory, Gjelsvik argues that an ethical criticism is not just possible, but unavoidable.Using contemporary American fiction film and the depiction of violence as her main case-study, she aims to show that there is no such thing as a separate fictional realm beyond the scope of ethical evaluations. A central example in her discussion is Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, a movie which was regarded by the Norwegian film reviewers as a fairy-tale and »just for fun«; accordingly the movie’s depiction of violence was not subject to an ethical criticism. Gjelsvik points to several reasons why this position (close to »aestheticism« in art theory) is inadequate, and she proposes a moderate version of ethical criticism instead. She discusses the moderate position as formulated by Berys Gaut and Noël Carroll, both philosophers who also have worked extensively on film art, trying to transfer their perspectives on art onto popular culture.She argues that such an approach also needs to take into consideration the emotions evoked by the movie and by violent depictions in particular. Whereas cognitive film theorists have foregrounded the similarities between the viewers’ emotional response to film and their real-life emotions, Gjelsvik makes a case for the importance of considering the distinctive features of fiction and cinematic depictions.The overall argument is that, as the relation between moral and aesthetic values is complex, ethical criticism should not aim for categorical evaluation. On the contrary, the position should take into consideration the heterogeneousness of fiction film, for instance in the differences between different movies’ depiction of violence, and acknowledge the value of ambivalent reactions towards fiction as well.
Elektronisk litteratur i Norden: Nordisk hyperteksttradisjon i lys av internasjonal hypertekstfiksjonshistorikk
Authors: Rustad Hans Kristian
Published: October 2018

Electronic Literature in the Nordic Region: Nordic Hyptertext Tradition in the Light of the History of International Hypertext Fiction:Electronic literature emerged in the late 1980s. Since then electronic literature in the Nordic countries has evolved, but despite the fact that this literary tradition has existed for more than two decades, scholars of the field have been more oriented towards international works and paid less attention to works written in a Nordic language.This article gives an account of electronic literature in the Nordic countries by emphasising characteristic features of the tradition, as well as by showing how and to what extent this tradition reflects the expansion of the international field of electronic literature. The article gives surveys and analyses of works which have played a significant role in the development of this literary tradition in the Nordic area – e.g. Karl Erik Tallmo’s Iakttagarens förmåga att ingripa, Anne Bang-Steinsvik’s I mellom tiden and Sonja Thomsen’s Ingen elge på vejen den dag.
Men hvordan betyder Blixens fortællinger – og hvad?
Authors: Hansen Janet Maintz
Published: October 2018

Klaus Otto Kappel: Karen Blixens Værk II. Nogle højdepunkter – nærlæsning, analyse og vurdering, Lyngby 2008 (Forlaget Holkenfeldt).
Dantes kristne universalisme og islam: Dante og den europæiske identitet
Authors: Cecchini Leonardo
Published: October 2018

Dante’s Christian Universalism and Islam:During the years 2001-2004, when the establishment of a Constitution for Europe was on the EU’s agenda, the suggestion to include a reference to the ‘Christian roots’ of Europe in the Constitution’s Preamble lead to an animated debate. Some Italian Catholic intellectuals (Anna Maria Chiavacci, Giuseppe Reale) took part in the debate and used Dante to illustrate the essential significance of Christianity in the European culture, thereby involving themselves in this debate. Referring to T.S. Eliot’s famous quote (»the culture of Dante was not of one European country but of Europe«), they claimed that Dante’s work was one of the greatest expressions of a Christian European cultural identity which took form in the Middle Ages and drew impulse from a synthesis of the two great Mediterranean cultural traditions: the Greek-Roman and the Jewish-Christian; a cultural identity they identified tout court with our present ‘European’ or ‘Western’ culture. It is worth observing that Chiavacci and Reale did not mention in their narrative the third great Mediterranean cultural tradition (especially in the Middle Ages) of Islam and its own likely contribution to the ‘European’ civilization. In my paper, I wish to contribute to the understanding of how Dante represents ‘Europe’ and ‘Islam’ in his work. My suggestion is that in Dante’s work we can neither find an idea of a Europe (or ‘West’) as separated or superior to other continents nor an orientalized image of the Orient as claimed by Edward Said. On the contrary, Dante considers ‘Europe’ as a metaphor for an ideal universal Christian community (with strong eschatological features), that is a community that potentially includes the whole of humanity.As few other intellectuals in the Middle Ages, Dante’s attitude to Islamic culture is primarily assimilative; he does not include but assimilates Arabian culture and philosophy to the extent that they have contributed to Christian thinking. As a good medieval Christian, Dante is hostile to Islam just because he looks at it as a heretical or schismatic version of Christianity (and therefore assimilated to his own faith), not as ‘another’ religion.
Hugo Chávez’ de-konstruktioner af det moderne Europa
Authors: Henriksen Ken
Published: October 2018

The Deconstruction of Modern Europe by Hugo Chávez:In recent years many countries in Latin America have undergone profound economic and political transformations, which among many other things have implied a »turn to the left«, a break with neoliberalism, and the upsurge of political viewpoints and discourses that are critical of North American influence in the area. But how is Europe represented in these anti-American discourses? This article is an investigation of Hugo Chávez’ discourse about Europe and European culture and politics. Taking its point of departure in the analysis of how Europe is portrayed in a political campaign which sought popular support for constitutional changes that would pave the way for indefinite re-election of the President, the article argues that Chávez seeks to demolish the image of a democratic and progressive Europe. Chávez’ discourse about Europe emphasizes internal, social problems and poverty in Europe, and he points at double standards of morality and the lack of capacity to solve Europe’s own problems. This means that he attempts to deconstruct the idea of Europe as a privileged centre of modernity, development and democracy. However, his discourse contributes simultaneously to the reproduction of binary distinctions between the »evil North« and the »wounded South«. Despite some important differences, Chávez’ portrayal of Europe therefore bears a resemblance to the negative ideas of the West that are often expressed in occidentalist discourses.
Genette og Hamburger som dobbelt whopper
Authors: Hansen Nils Gunder
Published: October 2018

Rolf Reitan: Fortællerfiktionen. Kritik af den rene narratologi, Århus 2008 (Aarhus Universitetsforlag).
FRA BIG BROTHER TIL TOILETKUMMER OG MEKANISKE PROTESER – OM KUNST SOM RESSOURCE FOR OVERVÅGNINGSFORSKNING
Authors: Lauritsen Peter
Published: October 2018

FROM BIG BROTHER TO TOILET BOWLS AND MECHANICAL PROSTHESES: ART AS RESOURCE FOR STUDYING SURVEILLANCEFor years the concepts of Big Brother and panopticon have dominated the way surveillance is perceived in public debate as well as academic research. Taken together these two concepts substantiate an understanding of surveillance as related to situations of total visibility. Nowhere can citizens escape the all-encompassing gaze of the surveyor. Furthermore surveillance is understood as an automatic process carried from a centre, which is so powerful that resistance is hopeless.Within the field of surveillance studies it has been acknowledged however that this understanding is too narrow and limited, and a search for novel theories and concepts of surveillance has begun.This article argues that contemporary art contains resources that enable an understanding of surveillance as a multifaceted phenomenon. This point is illustrated by analysing Hasan Elahi’s “Tracking Transience: The Big Brother Project” as well as various attempts by Stelarc to upgrade the human body. In sum these artists subvert and extend the concept of surveillance. For example Elahi shows how it is possible for the surveyed to distort the vision of Big Brother and take control over the surveillance situation. In a somewhat different way Stelarc constructs experiments in which the body is linked to surveillance tech nology, but this is done in order to share information and power and with the intent of empowering the body. Surveillance tech nologies are thus not seen as part of a totalitarian regime, but as a possibility for upgrading the body to fit a complex environment.In a situation where even more sophisticated surveillance tech nologies are deployed to almost every corner of everyday life it becomes essential to understand surveillance as an integrated part of society. Although the academic field of surveillance studies contributes to this understanding, it is at the same time limited by the use of a few powerful metaphors. However, by looking at the many interesting examples of artists experimenting with surveillance, the study of surveillance might be able to regain its analytical imagination.
Anmeldelse: HERMAN BANG – EN KLASSIKER ‘REVISITED’
Authors: Heitmann Annegret
Published: October 2018

ANMELDELSE AFPeer E. Sørensen: Vor Tids Temperament. Studier i Herman Bangs forfatterskab, København, 2009 (Gyldendal)
Forord
Authors: K&K Redaktionen
Published: October 2018

Redaktionelt forord
Overgangens kunst. Modernitet og skepsis i Richard Wagners æstetik
Authors: Damm Thomas Teilmann
Published: October 2018

TRANSITIONAL ART MODERNITY AND SCEPTICISM IN RICHARD WAGNER’S AESTHETICSRichard Wagner is unique among creative artists in that he published copious volumes of theoretical writings to accompany and explain his artistic work. The present paper probes these writings and asks why Wagner should feel the need to constantly explain and justify himself. The answer is found to lie, not so much in the psychological make-up of the artist, as in the very kernel of his aesthetic impulse: the sceptical rejection of tradition and convention, and the reclaiming of an authentic, “purely human”, artistic form. Wagner inhabits a position of ambivalent modernity: he demands the destruction of old totalities of meaning while simultaneously structuring new ones. Nietzsche branded it “the lie of the great style”, a more recent and sympathetic commentator (Richard Klein) has spoken of Wagner’s “pluralist modernism”. The present paper agrees with Theodor W. Adorno that the “total work of art” is indeed a “phantasmagoria” but finds that Wagner, in his theorizing about it, lays bare certain inescapable conditions, risks as well as possibilities, of art and expression in the modern world.
Anmeldelse: EN HØJHOLTINTRODUKTION TIL Å BLI KLOK AV
Authors: Høystad Ole Martin
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af: STEFAN KJERKEGAARDHørbylundemandenIntroduktion til Per Højholts forfatterskabÅrhus, 2009 (Aarhus Universitetsforlag).197 sider.
Forord
Authors: K&K Redaktionen
Published: October 2018

Redaktionelt forord til K&K 112 - Unaturlige fortællinger
Tiden ødelægger alt. Om episodisk bagvendte fortællinger illustreret ved hjælp af Gaspar Noés Irréversible
Authors: Hansen Per Krogh
Published: October 2018

TIME DESTROYS EVERYTHING | This article focuses on what Seymour Chatman calls ‘sustained episodic reversal’ of narrative progressionR– that is, narratives in which the sequential, chronological order of the events is reversed and thereby ‘de-’ or ‘unnaturalized’. The article opens with a short discussion of the project of ‘unnatural narratology,’ and it is claimed that if our experience of a given narrative as ‘natural’ is grounded on its confirmation of the conventions for the mode or genre the narrative belongs to, then the task for an ‘unnatural narratology’ is to investigate the exceptions, that is, cases where conventions are broken and perhaps reformulated. Sustained episodic reversals of event sequences belong to this field of interest insofar as one of the basic features of ‘natural narrative’ is that the sequence of clauses (or more generally, the sjuzhet or discourse) is typically matched to the sequence of the events being narrated (the fabulaor story). The denaturalizing function and effect of the sustained reversal is illustrated through analysis of Gaspar Noé’s Irréversible (2002). It is shown that the reversal has radical consequencesfor the spectator’s (re)construction of the narrative’s fabula, and that it engages the reader in a game of post hoc ergo propter hoc and of narrative construction and deconstruction.
HVAD FATTER LACAN GØR, DET ER ALTID DET RIGTIGE – ELLER ER DET?
Authors: Boysen Benjamin
Published: October 2018

HVAD FATTER LACAN GØR, DET ER ALTID DET RIGTIGE – ELLER ER DET? Replik til René Rasmussens kommentar i K&K #113
LIDT AKTIVISTISK DØDSHJÆLP
Authors: Wamberg Jacob
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af MIKKEL BOLT: En anden verden. Små kritiskeepistler om de seneste årtiers antikapitalistiske satsninger i kunst og politik og forsøgene på at udradere dem.København, 2011 (Forlaget Nebula), 263 s.
WALSH, KORT FORTALT
Authors: Reitan Rolf
Published: October 2018

RICHARD WALSH: A CONTEXTUAL EXPOSITION OF BASIC TENETS | This essay is an attempt to reconstruct the logical structure of Walsh’s argument in “The pragmatics of fictionality” (Chapter 1 of The Rhetoric of Fictionality). Its main focus is on the implications of Walsh’s criticism of Fictional Worlds Theory and the issue of fictional reference, and on the relation between the rhetoric of fictionality and narratology.
FUSIONEN AF FIKTION OG IKKE-FIKTION - UDFORDRING AF DORRIT COHNS FIKTIONSTEORI
Authors: Høeg Mette Pedersen
Published: October 2018

THE FUSION OF FICTION AND NON-FICTION | Dorrit Cohn’s influential theory of fiction draws a clear distinction between the fictive and non-fictive narrative domains. Though to some extent useful in the examination of fictive and non-fictive features in literary narratives, Cohn’s theory exhibits certain limitations and contradictions when submitted to careful investigation. These weaknesses in Cohn’s theory become conspicuous when viewed in the light of one of the most progressive tendencies in contemporary European literature, which is exactly a merging of the traditionally divided domains: fiction and nonfiction. Requiem by Danish Peer Hultberg, Min kamp by Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgård and Atemschaukel by German Herta Müller constitute interesting examples of this tendency. The application of Cohn’s theory to these specific works entails a strong challenge of anumber of pivotal ideas in her conception of fiction since none of the works can be placed in either of Cohn’s domains without a considerable reduction of their expression. The works thus represent a fusion. The combination of fiction’s privilege of use of distinctive fictional discourses, most notably free indirect discourse, with nonfiction’s privilege of referentiality results in the production of an extra dimension. Through fusion the works illustrate the potentiality of narrative in creating an expression thatexceeds what fiction and nonfiction are capable of individually, and, consequently, they point toward the necessity of analytical operation beyond a clear division between fictional and non-fictional narrative.
DET ER TIDENS SKYLD! - OM NOSTALGI OG ETIK I JOSEPH ROTHS RADETZKYMARCH
Authors: Baake-Hansen Martin
Published: October 2018

TIME IS TO BLAME! ETHICS AND NOSTALGIA IN JOSEPH ROTH’S THE RADETZKY MARCH | Nostalgia is a key concept in the work of Joseph Roth. Referring to John J. Su, this article asks whether we can speak of an ethics of nostalgia in his 1932 novel The Radetzky March. In this novel Roth draws up a nostalgic portrait of the Habsburg Empire which collapsed during the First World War. The aesthetic interpretation of the Habsburg Empire that The Radetzky March is, has ethical implications insofar as it draws up a vision of a just society in which one can live a good life. Roth’s appraisal of the Habsburg Empire can be seen as a counter-image that displays what he hated most about the inter-war period, namely political nationalism. The paper argues that the nostalgia of the novel supports a critique of contemporary society that is also a conservative critique of nationalism. The nostalgic portrait of the Habsburg Empire points to a vision of how to live a good life, which leads the article to conclude that we can in fact speak of an ethics of nostalgia in The Radetzky March.
Forord
Authors: K&K Redaktionen
Published: October 2018

"The affective turn" betegner en fornyet interesse for følelsernes kognitive og sociale betydning inden for en række human- og samfundsvidenskaber. Ikke mindst ser man i disse års kulturforskning og kulturkritik et skærpet fokus på de affektive strukturer, der kulturelt forbinder os og regulerer vores samkvem. Dette nummer af K&K afdækker en række af de analytiske muligheder, som den affektive drejning tilfører studiet af kultur og litteratur.
BEVIDSTHED I BEVÆGELSE - OM DEN JAPANSKE FORFATTER NATSUME SŌSEKIS SANSEBEVIDSTHED
Authors: Vilslev Annette Thorsen
Published: October 2018

CONSCIOUSNESS AS MOVEMENT — ACCORDING TO NATSUME SŌSEKI | In his Theory of Literature from 1907, Japanese writer Natsume Sōseki (1867‑1916) describes feelings as pivotal in literature worldwide. Fredric Jameson places Sōseki among the major modernists in the twentieth century. Like the western modernists, Sōseki was inspired by William James’ concept stream of consciousness, developing his own idea about literature as an affective type of continuity of consciousness. This article investigates how this idea influences the representation of characters in his last, unfinished feuilleton novel, Light and Dark from 1916. The article argues that a comparison with current day affect theory calls attention to how Sōseki not only portrays the bodily emotions, but also consciousness as embodied and embedded in particular social spaces. In this novel Sōseki depictsor sketches minor feelings or everyday affects as closely related to the experience of modernity. By exploiting its feuilleton form, Light and Dark shows how new modes of perception and movementproduce affects that stick to bodies (rather than spring from them). The article thus suggests seeing Light and Dark as a critical and nuanced comment on modernity and its discourses on emotions.
LYKKEN PÅ FØRTIDSPENSION - VELFÆRDSSTAT OG AFFEKTIV MOBILITET I JENS BLENDSTRUPS GUD TALER UD
Authors: Simonsen Peter
Published: October 2018

HAPPINESS ON EARLY RETIREMENT: THE WELFARE STATE AND AFFECTIVE MOBILITY IN JENS BLENDSTRUP’S GUD TALER UD | The article takes its point of departure in current happiness studies and probes the possibly fruitful interdisciplinary relation between research in social science that suggests close links between the Nordic welfare model and the high levels of selfreported happiness we find in the region, and literary criticism which instinctively seems to hold that unhappiness is most conducive to inspire the literary mind. To demonstrate that things are never as simple as that, the article reads Jens Blendstrup’s novel, Gud taler ud (2004), as an example of both a welfare narrative and of what it coins ”an affective mobility story”: a story about a person’s enhanced feeling of happiness in retirement. On the one hand, the novel portrays a person who finds happiness when he is granted early retirement from the welfare state. On the other hand, the novel relates this in such a manner that we are reminded that one man’s happiness may be another’s unhappiness.
DET SEMANTISKT GEMENSAMMA OMRÅDET SOM ANALYSMEDEL FÖR METAFORISKA UTTRYCK
Authors: Turunen Mikko
Published: October 2018

COMMON SEMANTIC GROUND AS AN AID IN ANALYSING METAPHORICAL EXPRESSIONS | This paper discusses the metaphorical properties of language and the various manifestations of those properties. I set the stage by discussing the central issues of research into metaphorical expressions. I then proceed to introduce my concept of common semantic groundbased on the various scientific views on metaphors. I also provide concrete examples on how my concept can be structured into graphical representations. The common semantic ground is based on two concepts: the overlapping fields of meanings in the metaphorical expressions, and the idea of similarity, which is established through analogies in the contrasted phenomena. A well-established paradigm about the relationship between the vehicle and tenor exists in the study of metaphor, but there have been few attempts to establish patterns of analysis in the study of metaphorical properties of a language. As I outline in my article, the vehicle and tenor are conjoined by their overlapping fields of meanings, which I call the common semantic ground. This common ground contains those elements from both the source and target domains that enable both a meaningful connection and the mapping between the two domains. As a method, the common semantic ground serves the analysis of constructing a metaphor’s meaning. It can also be used as a means to argument thematic interpretations via the different layers of the component parts in the imagery.
TURISME, DIGT OG HISTORIE - TINTERN ABBEY SOM EKSEMPEL PÅ ÆSTETISK OBJEKTIVATION
Authors: Andersen Jørn Erslev
Published: October 2018

TOURISM, POETRY, AND HISTORY. TINTERN ABBEY AS AN EXAMPLE OF AESTHETIC OBJECTIVATION | The essay presents a new concept which I call ‘aesthetic objectivation’. It deals with how to understand and grasp specific literary texts, events and conceptualisations due to a specific field of both disrupted and progressive historical features, in which the same object is being perceived, firstly as a sense object, secondly as reflexive object. The concept is shaped by a non-universalistic and non-Hegelian objectivity thinking. The line from Gilpin’s ‘pittoresque’ and sensual description of Tintern Abbey in Observations on the River Wye to the reflexive use of the very same ruin in Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”, Tennyson’s “Tears, Idle Tears”, and Ginsberg’s “Wales Visitation” serves as an exemplifying study case.
MED HISTORIEN I BYEN - KULTURARV SOM SMARTPHONE APPS
Authors: Madsen Karen Hvidtfeldt
Published: October 2018

EMBEDDED CITY HISTORIES: CULTURAL HERITAGE AS SMARTPHONE APPS | A number of city museums and cultural heritage institutions have during the recent years developed various combinations of internet sites and smartphone apps, through which the users are guided to places of cultural interest and offered information about them. The article presents four different Danish cultural heritage smartphone apps developed and launched during the recent years, and examine the stated intentions and motivations compared to the actual content of the digital sites. It is argued that priority is given rather to affective communication and the communication of ordinary people’s everyday stories than to factual knowledge, but also that the level of participation is low. Within a theoretical framework of experience economy, mobility and affect theory, I argue that the digital and mobile museum communication has a participatory and democratic potential but needs to balance this ambition in relation to the agendas of experience economy and commercial place branding.
NATIONALHISTORIE EFTER MODERNISMEN - FOLKEBEGREBET I LYSET AF EUROPAS STORE FORTÆLLINGER
Authors: Böss Michael
Published: October 2018

WRITING NATIONAL HISTORY AFTER MODERNISM: THE HISTORY OF PEOPLEHOOD IN LIGHT OF EUROPEAN GRAND NARRATIVES | The purpose of the article is to refute the recent claim that Danish history cannot be written on the assumption of the existence of a Danish people prior to 19th-century nationalism. The article argues that, over the past twenty years, scholars in pre-modern European history have highlighted the limitations of the modernist paradigm in the study of nationalism and the history of nations. For example, modernists have difficulties explaining why a Medieval chronicle such as Saxo Grammaticus’s Gesta Danorum was translated in the mid-1600s, and why it could be used for new purposes in the 1800s, if there had not been a continuity in notions of peoplehood between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age. Of course, the claim of continuity should not be seen as an argument for an identity between the “Danes” of Saxo’s time and the Danes of the 19th-century Danish nation-state. Rather, the modern Danishness should be understood as the product of a historical process, in which a number of European cultural narratives and state building played a significant role. The four most important narratives of the Middle Ages were derived from the Bible, which was a rich treasure of images and stories of ‘people’, ‘tribe’, ‘God’, King, ‘justice’ and ‘kingdom’ (state). While keeping the basic structures, the meanings of these narratives were re-interpreted and placed in new hierarchical positions in the course of time under the impact of the Reformation, 16th-century English Puritanism, Enlightenment patriotism, the French Revolution and 19th-century romantic nationalism. The article concludes that it is still possible to write national histories featuring ‘the people’ as one of the actors. But the historian should keep in mind that ‘the people’ did not always play the main role, nor did they play the same role as in previous periods. And even though there is a need to form syntheses when writing national history, national identities have always developed within a context of competing and hierarchical narratives. In Denmark, the ‘patriotist narrative’ seems to be in ascendancy in the social and cultural elites, but has only partly replaced the ‘ethno-national’ narrative which is widespread in other parts of the population. The ‘compact narrative’ has so far survived due the continued love of the people for their monarch. It may even prove to provide social glue for a sense of peoplehood uniting ‘old’ and ‘new’ Danes.
KOMPARATIV LITTERATURHISTORIE I DET UDVIDEDE FELT - STILLEHAVET SOM CASE
Authors: Andersen Frits
Published: October 2018

KOMPARATIV LITTERATURHISTORIE I DET UDVIDEDE FELT. STILLEHAVET SOM CASE | The article discusses status and perspectives for writing literary history based on an updated model for comparative literature. While the American re-launching of World Literature is not regarded to be a useful response to the global challenges facing literary historiography, it is proposed to re-evaluate the long history of comparatism in order to find models that match the current situation of literature in the expanded field. The article investigates narratives on expeditions in the Pacific Ocean from the 18th century. Here are outlined two models for comparison: One that leads toward cultural relativism and its problematic tendency to describe the compared societies as autonomous and closed, and another model, which can serve as a point of departure for grasping literature in both its historical and global conditions.
Grænser for deltagelse
Authors: Bolt Mikkel
Published: October 2018

Through a focus on the discourse of participation and the rhetoric of New Institutionalism the article presents an analysis of the on-going transformation taking place within the art institution following the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2007-2008 where so-called progressive art institutions are exposing former hidden class alliances. One case in point being the exhibition “Abstract Possible” at Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm where Tensta Konsthall collaborated with the local auction house Bukowskis owned by Lundin Petroleum under investigation of committing humanitarian crimes in Sudan. The article is a contribution to the critical analysis of the financialization of contemporary art in a situation where creativity has become high currency.
(H)vide verden
Authors: Ladegaard Jakob
Published: October 2018

Knut Ove Eliasson, Anne Fastrup, Tue Andersen Nexø (Red.): Europæisk litteratur 1500-1800, bd. 1: Verden – Fra Columbus til Napoleon. Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2013, 260 sider
Hvem vil vi være? ”Africa for Norway” og den humanitære relation
Authors: Sharma Devika
Published: October 2018

In this article I examine a recurrent critique of humanitarianism and humanitarian phenomena, a critique centering on the presumably anti-political and emotionally complacent nature of such phenomena. But from which position, I ask, does it make sense to critique the humanitarian culture in which we live. In discussing these issues, I take as my point of departure the satirical campaign video Radi-Aid by the fictitious humanitarian NGO, Africa for Norway. This spoof campaign parodies humanitarian aesthetics, humanitarian emotions, as well as the stereotyping typically involved in humanitarian campaigns. Yet, for all its satirizing it does not make a clean break with the very humanitarian culture whose negative aspects it aims to expose. The criticality of the Africa for Norway initiative is thus clearly constrained, but does this imply that the satire is doomed to sheer complicity with the social dynamics it questions? My interest is these issues stems from dissatisfaction with the common notion that a relevant critique of humanitarian relations between the global North and the global South must be a critique of macro level political economy.
Europas plantage? Afrikas plats i EU:s historia
Authors: Hansen Peo , Jonsson Stefan
Published: October 2018

This essay describes the history of the Eurafrican project as it evolved from the Pan-European movement in the 1920s to its institutionalization in the European Economic Community (i.e. today’s EU) in the late 1950s. By way of conclusion, the article also discusses how this history affects current relations between Africa and the EU. As shown in the article practically all of the visions, movements and concrete institutional arrangements working towards European integration during this period placed Africa’s incorporation into the European enterprise as a central objective. European integration, it is argued, was thus inextricably bound up with a Eurafrican project. According to the geopolitical discourse on Eurafrica that became politically operative in the aftermath of World War II, a future European community presupposed the transformation of the strictly national colonial projects into a joint European colonization of Africa. Indeed, there is strong evidence to support that these ideas were instrumental in the actual, diplomatic and political constitution of the EU, or of Europe as a political subject. As the article shows, the history of Eurafrica, which is largely ignored in scholarship on the EU as well as in colonial studies, cannot be understood within a “continentalist” framework, but prompts a reconceptualization of the historical relation Africa and Europe.
Fremmede her på jorden - Afrofuturistiske spekulationer
Authors: Steinskog Erik
Published: October 2018

The last couple of decades have seen an increase in research and artistic practices around afrofuturism. Taking the cue from Mark Dery’s article “Black to the Future,” where he coins the term, the article points to different aspects of afrofuturism. The music and philosophy of Sun Ra is an important point of departure, having ancient Egypt and a future outer space as orientation. At the same time there are, as Dery makes clear, other dimensions at stake. Following Dery’s argument that African Americans and other Afrodiasporic citizens in a specific sense are descendent from alien abductees, the article moves into relations between time and history, and employs an afrofuturist lens to discuss how speculative fiction can be used in interpreting history, illustrating a kind of science fiction historiography. As a case in point the Middle Passage, and the chronotope of the ocean, is discussed in tandem with Nnedi Okorafor’s novel Lagoon. Okorafor’s novel also testifies to an expansion of afrofuturism with increasing expressive work coming from the African continent.