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- Leth Gammelgaard, Signe, 1987
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Begæret efter stoflighed. Materialitet, begrænsninger og begær i “Madame Bovary”
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Ingår i: Passage. - : Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library. - 0901-8883 .- 1904-7797. ; 32:77, s. 97-111
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Signe Leth Gammelgaard: “Desiring Matter: Materiality, Constraints and Desire in Madame Bovary”This article analyses similarities between Flaubert’s stylistics in Madame Bovary and the theories of new materialism, in particular the work of Karen Barad. Drawing upon earlier readings of the novel by Schor, Danius, Starobinski and Rancière this reading centers on the motif of boundaries and their dissolvement and it argues that the novel highlights a feeling of disappointment or frustration with a world that does not always move according to human will. The article goes on to examine how Emma’s money plot conjoins with the theory of active materiality, and to speculate on the relation between capitalist ideology and new materialist theory. Finally, two critiques of new materialism are discussed, stressing the importance of the notion of boundaries.
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- Leth Gammelgaard, Signe
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Engineering the Welfare State : Economic Thought as Context to Boye’s Kallocain and Huxley’s Brave New World
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Ingår i: Utopian studies. - 1045-991X .- 2154-9648. ; 34:3, s. 436-457
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While the political aspects of the interwar dystopias have received much attention, less focus has been given to the specific correlation to the economic thinking and developments of the period, in particular the prominence of economic planning. This article suggests that such a connection is significant by examining a key Swedish novel from the period, Kallocain, in relation to the early economic theory of the Scandinavian welfare state. The article then relates these findings to links between Brave New World and the thinking of John Maynard Keynes. Finally, the kinds of critique articulated in these fictional works are centered around the citizens’ emotional and interior lives in new planned societies, and around their views on bad, disloyal, or painful feelings.
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- Leth Gammelgaard, Signe, 1987, et al.
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Fortidsløse fantaster : Finans og presse hos Trollope og Zola
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Ingår i: K & K : kultur og klasse : kritik og kulturanalyse. - : Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library. - 0905-6998 .- 2246-2589. ; 47:127, s. 153-172
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The latter half of the 19th century saw a rise in novels focusing directly on the stock-exchange and its various actors. Scholarship on these has naturally zoomed in on the main character of the speculator and on the economic paradigm of speculation and financialization, and to a lesser degree concerned itself with the information circuits of the field. However, these studies almost invariably stay rooted within the national literatures; in this article we address the issue of comparativism within the stock-exchange novel, zeroing in on two rather canonical works, namely Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now, and Émile Zola’s L’Argent. Both novels articulate the impact of information on the stock market and trades and they do so by crystallizing a character with the task of disseminating stories about the company they work for. However, these characters distil not only the strategies of advertising and press-directing, but also a certain moral, truth- and history-management. In the artricle we argue first that these characters function rather as placeholders for a specific set of values than as psychological personalities, and second that they lend themselves to a fruitful comparison between French and British literature and economics of the time, in turn fleshing out Trollope’s versus Zola’s view on the potential of a free press and its powers in the financial sphere.
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- Leth Gammelgaard, Signe, 1987
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INDEBTED BODIES, Debt and Decadence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation investigates the relationship between linguistic and stylistic innovation in nineteenth-century literature on the one hand and shifts in the dynamics of the economic sign system on the other. It draws on prior work on parallels between language and money and argues specifically that developments in the nineteenth-century novel can be understood in terms of the contemporaneous economic history, and that the two sign systems of language and money display structural similarities in this period. The central focus is the shift away from realism and towards the proto-modernist forms of the fin de siècle, in particular the decadent works. The dissertation thus argues that the period displays issues of representation not only as semiotic gaps between sign and thing or signified and signifier but as a downright loss of meaning, a loss of the signified in the constitution of the sign. The present work examines novels by six French and British authors through the lens of debt as a literary motif in order to portray the economic developments of the period. This focus allows for comparative points between the various works and shows how the money plots in these novels parallel their take on linguistic representation. A central concern is the relationship between debt and the human body in each work, which displays a development from withering bodies, over tortured and torn ones, to decomposing, decaying, and ravaged flesh. The focus on the human body also works as a segue into larger questions on the way these novels negotiate the relationship between art, language, and material reality. The dissertation contributes on the one hand by supplying a reading of the nineteenth-century novel with a stronger and more structural take on the influences of money and economic dynamics than what previous scholarship has offered. On the other hand, it reveals problems of meaning in a period where production to an ever-larger degree gives way to financialization, and where the economy exhibits what Giovanni Arrighi has termed “signs of autumn” of a specific cycle of capitalist development.
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- Leth Gammelgaard, Signe, 1987
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Jævnhed, sanddruhed, naturlighed
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Ingår i: Standart. - 0903-1928. ; 33:3
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