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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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In: Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap. - 1104-0556. ; 2013:2, s. 19-27
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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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- Björck, Amelie
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Metaforer och materialiseringar. Om apor hos Vladimir Nabokov och Sara Stridsberg
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In: Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap. - 1104-0556 .- 2001-094X. ; :1, s. 5-20
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- By tradition the humanities have been anthropocentrically focused on the lives of human beings in arts and literature. The limited analysis of what other species do in literature – and of the different relations between humans and animals that are represented – has sustained the notion of a hierachical divide between humans and other species, thereby reducing the ethical potential of literature to resist that dualism. The growing field of human–animal studies proposes that we return to our artefacts and epistemologies, with new attention to human–animal relations. Inspired by this movement, forefronted by scholars such as Cary Wolfe and Sara McHugh, this article offers a comparative reading of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) and Sara Stridsberg’s Darling River (2010). In Lolita Nabokov makes frequent use of animal and especially monkey metaphors, and carries out an ongoing animalization of his characters. In Stridsberg’s novel, which is written as a kind of hypertext of Lolita, Nabokov’s animalizations are interestingly molded and materialized into one physical creature: the caged schimpanzee Ester. The central concern of the study is to understand the process and effects of this materialization. I argue that the consequential reorientation of the reader to a non-hierarchical species discourse is a major ethical feat of the novel.
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- Björk, Johannes, 1983-
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Dispositivets historia
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In: Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap. - Uppsala : littvet.uu. - 1104-0556 .- 2001-094X. ; 43:3-4, s. 156-159
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- Bohlin, Anna, 1971-
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Att tänka med alla sinnen : Aforismen och K. J.
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In: Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap. - 1104-0556 .- 2001-094X. ; :2, s. 49-59
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this article, the aphorisms of Klara Johanson (1875–1948) are related to the history of the genre. I argue that her aphorisms should be examined in the light of the romantic aphorism and be considered as a contribution to aesthetics. The etymology of the term ”aesthetics” – sensuous perception – foregrounds the body, as does the earliest uses of the term ”aphorism” (Aphorismoi was the title of Hippocrates’ famous compendium of medical propositions and recommendations). The meaning of the term was later transferred from medicine to other disciplines, most notably politics, drawing on the analogy of the relation between the health of the physical body and the health of the state (connected by the theory of the four humours). Of course, by the beginning of the 20th century, that theory was no longer valid. However, the connection between the body and the state had endured, and was now understood in terms of the romantic concept of the ”organism”. Johanson’s aphorisms unite these two aspects: the body as sensuous perception and the body related to the state. According to Gerhard Neumann’s definition, the form of the romantic aphorism is a representation of conflict between abstract, mathematical truth, and personal, sensuous truth. This conflict informs Johanson’s aphorisms, although her modern take on the romantic conflict was more in line with the Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce, whose works Johanson introduced and translated into Swedish. In his view, aesthetics should precede logic, since individual perception precedes any understanding of a pure concept. I argue that Johanson’s aphorisms constitute a political statement, situating the individual truth at the centre of experience, and defending the need to take personal differences into account in order to heal the social ”organism” of society. To think with all your senses is to accrue historical knowledge; an aesthetic method with political implications.
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