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- Agrell, Beata, 1944
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Didaktik utan tendens – Boccaccios falk och Per Hallströms novell ’Falken’
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Ingår i: Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap. - 1104-0556. ; 2013:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Didactics Without Tendency: Boccaccio’s Falcon and Per Hallström’s Short Story “The Falcon” The issue of this essay is how and why a pre-modern didactics is sneaked into a modern aestheticist short story: Per Hallström’s “The Falcon” in the collection Purpur [Purple] (1895). The operation is performed without moralizing tendencies and yet subtly edifying capacities emerge. This is done by displaying the aestheticist devices in an implicit (hypertextual) dialogue with a pre-modern classic: the story of the falcon in Boccaccio’s Decamerone (5:9). The overarching device is an inverted (chiasmic) logic, manipulating opposites like give/take, love/desire, feed/devour, self-sacrifice/voracity, and scapegoat/predator. In this context also Paul Heyse’s so called “Falcon theory” is discussed. Theoretical perspectives of use for the analysis are short story theories of restriction and intensity (Allan Pasco, Kay Dollerup); Gérard Genette’s concept of hypertextuality; and René Girard’s theory of mimetic desire and the need of a scapegoat
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