Romanen som forskningsresa/ Forskningsresan som roman. Om litterära återbruk och konventionskritik i 1960-talets nya svenska prosa

• This study investigates reader-oriented forms of literary re-use in the new Swedish prose of the 1960s. The central hypothesis is of a shift from a modern and modernist aesthetics of originality toward a new interest in the role of the artistic repertoire seen in terms of the aesthetics of reception. Tools used in this analysis have been taken from linguistic phenomenology and the discourse-oriented textual theories of G. Genette, L. Hutcheon and M. Bakhtin. The objective of the study is to bring together the history of form, theories of the text and the aesthetics of reception in applied textual analysis, while simultaneously taking into account thematic and existential aspects of experimentation with form. The study focuses on the task of literary address from the point of view of the critique of conventions in relation to the ’open’, ’impure’ aesthetics of the period. The orientation toward the aesthetics of reception is concretized in an analysis of the ways in which clichés and conventional usage take on new functions in a type of conglomerate re-use of texts, which serve to cast doubts upon both the cultural heritage and contemporary trends. Part I introduces the phenomenological matrix of the new orientation of the period, exhibiting the theoretical frame of reference and basic approaches of the study. Part II presents an annotated survey of the debate on literary theory from the period, complemented by literary exemples. Part III extends the discussion with an analysis of Hess (1966), an experimental novel by P.O. Enquist. This analysis demonstrates how, in a typical way, address-oriented re-contextualization of the traditional topos of the Journey and re-use of emblematic techniques integrate a problem complex including textuality, epistemology, phenomenology and existential issues into textual interplay between ego-centered and alter-oriented positions, based on a critique of modern conceptions of Self-realization.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Konst (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Religionsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- Religious Studies (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturvetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- General Literary Studies (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Ahlin

L.

alterity

Bakhtin

M.

documentarism

emblem

Enquist

P. O.

figura

Genette

G.

imagism

intertextuality

love

modernism

novel

pastiche

pastoral

phenomenology

picaresque

postmodernism

puritanism

speech act theory

reception theory

rhetoric

theology

travel literature

Publication and Content Type

vet (subject category)

bok (subject category)