Ieva Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė, Vilnius University, invites nordlitt to workshop around the concept of play in two stories by Danish author Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen. Ieva muses with Blixen on why art cannot make us happy, and we uncover creative connections between artistic processes, superficiality, and cannibalism. Blixen also guides us toward a new, gender-crossing take on theories of creative misreading. Moreover, we encounter a family history entangled with the history of Scandinavian Studies in the Soviet Union and Lithuania, and we learn about the significance of Denmark for post-communist Lithuanian scholars. Finally, Ieva encourages us to listen to the text and emphasizes the importance of intellectual exchange beyond national and political borders.
Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Introducing Ieva Steponavičiūtė Aleksiejūnienė
(00:01:56) Life Patterns and Scandinavian Studies in Lithuania
(00:13:40) Georg Brandes Skolen
(00:20:52) Introducing Karen Blixen
(00:31:38) Looking at Blixen through Play
(00:41:43) Workshop I: Recurring Images and Characters in “Echoes”
(00:48:06) Metafiction, Art and Life
(00:51:34) Resurrection and Cannibalism
(00:58:54) Is Blixen difficult?
(01:03:48) The Playful Vampire-Artist
(01:11:29) Theories of Influence
(01:16:08) Workshop II: “Tempest”
(01:23:27) Art Cannot Make People Happy
(01:34:23) The Tension between Symbol and Allegory
(01:39:54) Art and Transcendence
(01:42:57) The Shipwreck Versus the Floating Ship
(01:46:00) Other Research Interests: Scandinavia, Lithuania and Beyond
(01:54:00) Advice to Student-Self
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Cut: Cecilia Falkman
Mons Bissenbakker, Copenhagen University, invites nordlitt to a conversation about new Danish literature on trans experiences. We discuss how trans writers navigate existing narratives and seek alternative modes of expression within a system that resists ambivalence – both its own and that of others. We also speculate about the problem of masculinity and find resonances between being on testosterone and menopause. Revisiting a story by Victoria Benedictsson/Ernst Ahlgren, Mons Bissenbakker demonstrates a new trans reading, navigating between resonance and recognition, and offering insights into 19th century sexology and the figure of the invert. Last but not least, he outs nordlitt's final question as a rather “trans” enquiry.
Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Introducing Mons Bissenbakker
(00:03:00) Literature as a Way of Establishing Conversation
(00:06:16) Transgender Literature in a Danish Context
(00:14:37) The Relationship to Language, Narrative and Genre
(00:24:41) Gry Stokkendahl Dalgas and At performe transkønnet vrede
(00:31:52) Luka Holmegaard and Havet i munden
(00:37:51) Understanding Pain and Suffering through the Medical System versus SM
(00:49:35) Building Community and its Political Implications
(56:16:00) Victoria Benediction/Ernst Ahlgren through a “Trans-Lens”
(01:04:32) ”Ur mörkret” and Reading for Resonance and Recognition
(01:10:17) The Figure of the Invert
(01:18:25) Misogynist Feminism
(00:27:42) Naming and Understanding the Author Ernst Ahlgren
(01:34:38) Future Research Projects
(01:37:04) Advice to Student-Self (“a very trans-question”!)
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Idea and conception: Stefanie von Schnurbein
Cut: Cecilia Falkman
With Karolina Drozdowska, a Polish guest from NTNU in Trondheim, nordlitt widens its geographical range eastwards. Drawing on a wide array of contemporary and historical texts, from new crime novels to Romantic patriotic poems, we discuss continuities and changes in representations of Polish people and Eastern Europeans in Norwegian literature since the Enlightenment. We learn about the persistence of the Iron Curtain, the demonization of Russia, and we muse about the function of stereotypes and caricatures. We also explore ways of combining and working with large online corpora and close readings, while reflecting on the benefits of working in international, interdisciplinary networks. Dreams of new research projects take shape, accompanied by the reassuring advice: Be not afraid of academia.
Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Introducing Karolina Drozdowska
(00:04:37) Scandinavian Studies in Poland
(00:13:45) Representations of Eastern Europeans in Norwegian Literature
(00:19:18) Method: Building a Corpus
(00:24:45) Work Migration, Exoticization, and the Shadow of the Iron Curtain
(00:32:50) Caricatures and Postcolonial Readings
(00:47: 37) Shifting Images and Imaginations
(00:51:20) Otherness and “Grey People”
(00:58:05) Lithuania and Lithuanians in Norwegian Crime Fiction
(01:07:45) Research Networks
(01:13:00) The Research Project ImagiNation
(01:18:12) Poland in 19th Century Scandinavian Literature
(01:27:26) Comparisons: Representations of Ukrainians and Jewish Migration
(01:34:37) Connecting Research and Translation Work
(01:39:44) Advice to Student Self
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Idea and conception: Stefanie von Schnurbein
Cut: Cecilia Falkman
Nach einer kreativen Pause ist nordlitt zurück mit einer Spezialfolge. Am 16. Oktober waren Stefanie und Cecilia zu Gast an der Europa-Universität Flensburg und haben beim „Tag der Fakultät II“ ein Gespräch über das Podcasten geführt. Es ging um Inspirationen, die Freude am Experimentieren, dumme Fragen und darum, was ein gutes Gespräch eigentlich ausmacht. Und wir warfen einen Blick hinter die Kulissen und sprachen darüber, wie eine Podcastfolge entsteht – von der Idee bis zur Aufnahme. Im Austausch mit dem Flensburger Publikum erkundeten wir auch die Verbindungen zwischen Lehre, Forschung und Vermittlung.
Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Einführung ins Gespräch
(00:04:20) ”Gespräch als Methode: Der Podcast nordlitt in Forschung, Lehre und Vermittlung”
(00:06:18) Über die Entstehung von nordlitt
(00:14:58) Warum ein Audiopodcast?
(00:19:10) Der Podcast in der Lehre
(00:27:22) Über Risiken und das Experimentieren
(00:30:40) Merkmale eines guten Gesprächs
(00:32:56) Wissenschaftliches Podcasten
(00:41:30) Scheitern und Ausprobieren
(00:44:45) Fragen aus dem Publikum
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Idee und Konzeption: Stefanie von Schnurbein
Schnitt: Cecilia Falkman
Kristina Malmio, University of Helsinki, shares her research on local and global tendencies in Finland-Swedish literature with the help of two complex novels by Monika Fagerholm (The American Girl) and Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo (In Transit). We muse about the status of a privileged minority literature and discuss the shifting locations of centers and peripheries. We explore in-between-spaces and other metaphors of literary spaces and look at movements of novels and their characters between countries, continents and cultures. Finally, we are encouraged: Trust yourself! Literature takes you everywhere.
Timestamps:
(00:00:31) Kristina Malmio’s Way to Literature Studies and Scandinavian Studies
(00:05:00) The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland
(00:09:21) Historical and Contemporary Finland-Swedish Literature
(00:18:10) Minor Literature and World Literature
(00:23:02) Introducing Monika Fagerholm and The American Girl
(00:30:45) Postmodern Literature and Kaleidoscopic Collaging
(00:37:32) Fagerholm’s Constructing of Space
(00:34:48) Reconstructing the Belief in Narration
(00:41:11) The Reception in the US
(00:48:00) The Polycentric and Networked Novel
(01:01:12) Fagerholm on the Scandinavian Literature Scene
(01:04:43) Introducing Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo and In Transit
(01:14:13) The Chronotope of the Road and Bodily Experiences
(01:22:19) Anchoring in Space
(01:24:06) The Image of the North Pole Explorer
(01:29:33) Space in Contemporary Poetry
(01:30:40) Advice to Student Self
(01:31:43) An Announcement
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Idea and conception: Stefanie von Schnurbein
Cut: Cecilia Falkman
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Ellen Rees from the Center for Ibsen Studies at Oslo University introduces Henrik Ibsen as a theatre practitioner. She unfolds surprising resonances between French musical comedies by Eugène Scribe and Henrik Ibsen's most famous plays, A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler. We question romantic distinctions between high literature and popular theatre, and discuss Ellen's new theory on Ibsen's way to realism through the vaudeville. We are confronted with deadly links between money and love, and are reminded of the existence of academic bullying. But in the end, we are reminded of the joy of shouting out our crazy discoveries in the halls of venerable academic institutions.
(00:30:00) Introducing Ellen Rees
(00:02:12) How Did Ellen Rees End Up in Scandinavian Studies?
(00:06:00) The Centre for Ibsen Studies at Oslo University
(00:09:30) Who was Henrik Ibsen?
(00:12:24) Doing Research on Ibsen
(00:18:19) Ibsen as a Theatre Practitioner
(00:23:27) The Method and Process of Comparing
(00:28:20) Theatre History and the Vaudeville Genre
(00:38:42) Questioning the Idea of the Modern Breakthrough
(00:45:42) A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler in Comparison with Scribe
(00:53:45) Ibsen’s Contemporary Audience
(00:57:35) Ibsen and Comedy
(00:59:17) Hedda Gabler and Le budget d’une jeune ménage
(01:12:35) Parodic Strategies
(01:14:13) Student Question
(01:17: 27) The Crisis of Modernity
(01:22:06) The Position of Theatre Within the Global Literary System
(01:28:28) Announcement: Online Database
(01:29:59) What Advice Would You Give Your Student-Self?
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Cut: Cecilia Falkman
nordlitt continues the mini-series on Queer Theory and literature with the help of Jenny Björklund, Uppsala University. We ask what queer literature and reading might mean in a time and place where gay and lesbian parenting has become normalized. Jenny guides us through a novel by Viktoria Myrén about a mother who abandons her children, making literary detours to Victoria Benedictsson, August Strindberg, Margareta Suber, and Sara Stridsberg. We learn about Sweden's pro-natalist history and wonder if literary deaths can be read as acts of resistance. Last but not least, we emphasize the joy of co-writing and the importance of saying Yes!
(00:00:17) Introduction Jenny Björklund
(00:00:28) How Did Jenny Björklund End Up at the Intersection between Literary and Gender Studies?
(00:03:01) Moving Towards Queer Studies from Gender Studies
(00:06:47) What Happens to Queer When it Becomes Canonized?
(00:11:36) The “Pro-Natalist Tradition” in Sweden
(00:20:06) Queerness in Literature and Reading
(00:23:23) Queer Reading and the Concept of Death
(00:33:54) Paranoid and Reparative Reading
(00:38:00) The Body and Figurations
(00:45:38) Viktoria Myrén’s Novel I en familj finns inga fiender (There Are No Enemies in a Family)
(00:50:52) Queer Aspects of the Novel
(00:58:26) Marie as an Unreliable Narrator?
(01:03:02) The Structure Failing the Individual
(01:06:15) Leaving and Abandoning
(01:09:54) Family Conflict as War?
(01:18:09) Ambiguous Ending
(01:28:19) What Advice Would You Give Your Student-Self?
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Idea and conception: Stefanie von Schnurbein
Cut: Cecilia Falkman
Per Esben Svelstad, NTNU Trondheim, introduces the first Norwegian novel discussing lesbian love, Borghild Krane's Følelsers forvirring. We discover an uncanonized author, learn about homocultural codes in the inter-war years and a queer intertext by Stefan Zweig. Detours to poet Åsmund Sveen and novelists Sigrid Undset and Ebba Haslund create insights into early literary portrayals of homoerotic desire. We speculate about differences between queer studies in the Nordic countries, look at the relation between academia and activism and the possibility of finding community in literature and literary studies.
(00:00:36) Introduction Per Espen Svelstad
(00:01:56) How Did Per Esben Encounter Queer Literary Studies?
(00:04:58) Why Queer Literary Studies Aren’t as Common in Norway
(00:10:36) Comparing Sweden and Norway in that Aspect
(00:13:11) Intersections between Nationalsocialist Tendencies and Homosexuality
(00:24:10) Borghild Krane’s novel Følelsers forvirring
(00:32:21) Trying out Different Possibilities of Homosexual Life in Literature
(00:37:15) A Transnational Homosexual Community
(00:40:00) Paranoid and Reparative Reading
(00:47:00) Krane’s Interest in Sigrid Undset and the Topic of Sexuality
(00:57:34) Homosexuality as a Struggle among other Struggles
(01:00:58) Stefan Zweig’s Verwirrung der Gefühle as an Intertext to Krane’s Novel
(01:10:25) "Homocultural Code"
(01:19:58) Finding Gay Communities Through Literature
(01:23:12) Knowledge, Narration and the Mirror Motif
(01:32:21) What Advice Would You Give Your Student-Self?
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Idee und Konzeption: Stefanie von Schnurbein
Schnitt: Cecilia Falkman
In nordlitts zweiter Folge in leiblicher Kopräsenz fragt Dörte Linke, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, mit der dänischen Autorin Charlotte Weitze danach, wie man einen Klimaroman schreibt. Wir diskutieren existenzielle Thriller, begegnen queeren Schnee- und Rosenmenschen und ringen gemeinsam um die Bedeutung von Sexualität und Gewalt in Weitzes Romanen. Durch naturphilosophische Lektüren von Josefine Klougarts Romanen setzen wir uns Lebenswirrwarr, Sterblichkeit, Erinnerung und Liebe aus. Außerdem geht es um Literatur als Erkenntnisform, Literaturwissenschaft als Möglichkeit des „making kin", und nicht zuletzt präsentieren wir das erste technische nordlitt-Malheur.
(00:00:27) Einleitung
(00:01:55) Dörte Linkes Weg zur Skandinavistik und ihre Forschungsinteressen
(00:12:15) Zur Autorin Charlotte Weitze und ihrem Roman Den afskyelige (The Abominable)
(00:17:12) Hybrid-Wesen und ihr Verhältnis zur Umwelt
(00:23:24) Realität vs. Fantastik
(00:27:52) Auflösung der alten Naturtheorien
(00:32:44) Charlotte Weitzes Roman Rosarium
(00:35:59) Intersektion von Aggression, Ernährung und Sexualität
(00:41:24) Die Figur Kenneth in Den afskyelige
(00:44:32) Sexualität
(00:48:59) Verbindung von Sexualität, Natur und Schuld
(01:02:10) Umgang mit Klimawandel
(01:09:02) Die Autorin Josefine Klougart und Om mørke (Über die Dunkelheit)
(01:14:32) Ökokritik
(01:17:52) Umwelten bilden
(01:24:53) Natur und Mensch bei Klougart
(01:33:04) Was macht und kann Literaturwissenschaft?
(01:54:39) Was würdest Du Deinem Studierenden-Ich raten?
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Idee und Konzeption: Stefanie von Schnurbein
Schnitt: Cecilia Falkman
nordlitt trifft sich erstmals gemeinsam in einem Raum. Mit Sabine Meyer, Universität Greifswald folgen wir den Erzählfäden, die sich um die Person Lili Elbe spannen und den Versuchen, diesen mit Hilfe von Literaturwissenschaft, Autobiographieforschung, Geschichtswissenschaft und Medizingeschichte auf die Spur zu kommen. Es geht um eine frühe geschlechtsangleichende Operation, um die Anfänge der Sexualwissenschaft, um queere Künstler*innenleben, um die verzwickten Beziehungen zwischen Trans-, Inter- und Homosexualität, vor allem aber um einen queeren Text, der sich bemüht, das Ideal der Heterosexualität zu erhalten. Außerdem fragen wir nach Identifikationen und Obsessionen in der Wissenschaft, nach Kritik als Hilfestellung und sprechen über die Freuden der Archiv- und Editionsarbeit.
(00:00:52) Vorstellung Sabine Meyer
(00:04:08) Sabine Meyers Forschungsinteressen und Schwerpunkte
(00:08:40) Obsession und Queer Studies
(00:23:57) Zur Person Lili Elbe
(00:33:47) Archivarbeit und Biographie
(00:38:18) Entstehung der Sexualwissenschaft
(00:46:20) Mehr zu Lili Elbes Biographie
(01:03:08) Rekapitulation der Vorgeschichte
(01:04:40) Eine menschliche Tragödie?
(01:08:29) Erste Veröffentlichung des Textes
(01:13:27) Homophobe Erzählweisen
(01:32:03) Briefe von Lili an den deutschen Freund
(01:35:06) Genre und „Entqueerung“
(01:46:24) Queering durch Intertextualität
(01:48:44) Lebendige Quellenkritik und Archivarbeit
(01:54:16) Wer darf trans-Geschichten erzählen?
(02:00:34) Die Zukunft von Queer Studies?
(02:04:54) Was würdest Du Deinem Studierenden-Ich raten?
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Idee und Konzeption: Stefanie von Schnurbein
Schnitt: Cecilia Falkman
Kjersti Bale, Universitetet i Oslo, gjør nordlitt enda mere flerspråklig. I den første norsk-svenske episoden sammenligner hun Rita Felskis og Toril Mois litteraturteorier. Vi diskuterer bruken av begrepet «metode», den falske motsetningen mellom subjektiv og objektiv og våre opplevelser av både de teoretiske tekstene og Amalie Skrams kortroman Fru Inès. Vi ser på maskulinitet, eksotisme og seksualitet og drøfter hvordan sosiale situasjoner sitter i kroppen. Dessuten møter vi en målrettet student og blir oppmuntret til å komme oss ut.
(00:01:14) Kjersti Bales vei til litteraturvitenskapen?
(00:03:55) Formidling av internasjonal litteraturteori til Norge
(00:08:49) Feministiske teorier og nærlesning
(00:10:41) Universitetet som felles tenkning
(00:12:28) Å se det skandinaviske utenfra
(00:14:36) Kjersti Bales vei til postkritikk?
(00:17:01) Språk og erfaring
(00:23:12) Toril Mois og Rita Felskis teorier utfyller hverandre
(00:26:07) Hva er postkritikk?
(00:33:17) Metode eller fremgangsmåte
(00:43:38) Å arbeide med egne følelser og følelser i teksten
(00:52:39) Introduksjon Amalie Skram
(00:58:02) Fru Ines handling
(01:00:14) Nye lesemåter
(01:00:58) Miljøet i Fru Ines
(01:06:14) Lovgiving i denne perioden
(01:09:47) Miljø og interseksjonalitet
(01:16:02) Kritikk av teksten
(01:21:00) Hvorfor valgte Amalie Skram dette internasjonale miljøet?
(01:29:41) Er det en roman som sier noe til nåtidens studerende?
(01:33:18) Kjærlighet og seksualitet i romanen
(01:36:33) Melankolske diktere
(01:40:05) Hvilke råd skulle du ha gitt til student-jeget ditt?
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Cut: Cecilia Falkman
What can literary studies be? Toril Moi, Duke University, author of Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell inspires us to educate our judgment and claims that finding a question is the work of literary studies. She helps us read Vigdis Hjorth’s Will and Testament as a Wittgensteinian novel about acknowledgment and invites us to see what fascinates her about Karl Ove Knausgård’s My Struggle. On the way, we are encouraged to get lost, learn about our responsibility for our texts, and about Lacan’s treacherous “subject that is supposed to know”.
(00:00:07) Introducing Toril Moi
(00:00:42) Toril Moi’s Relationship to Scandinavian Literatury Studies
(00:06:52) Stefanie’s Encounter with Toril Moi’s Work
(00:09:07) How to Define and Talk about Postcritique
(00:18:20) Wittgensteinian Criticism
(00:26:32) Fascination and Acknowledgement
(00:31:42) Criticism as Writing a Travel Report
(00:38:07) Building an Intellectual Environment for Thriving Ideas
(00:40:11) Literary Criticism as an Invitation to Conversation
(00:43:59) The Professor as Lacan’s “Subject That is Supposed to Know
(00:50:16) On Arrogance
(00:53:01) Introducing Vigdis Hjorth’s Will and Testament
(00:55:07) On ‘Truth’ in Will and Testament
(00:57:57) Acknowledgement in Will and Testament
(01:03:45) Designing Truthful Characters
(01:11:27) The Struggle with Karl Ove Knausgård’s My Struggle
(01:16:13) On Authenticity in Literary Works
(01:22:17) Pinpointing the Struggle with My Struggle
(01:25:36) The Novelty of Knausgård’s writing
(01:27:19) Revealing Yourself and Your Surroundings in Literature
(01:34:59) Short Summary of Differences in Knausgård’s and Hjorth’s Writing
(01:38:25) What Advice Would You Give Your Student-Self?
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Cut: Cecilia Falkman
How does aesthetic experience come about? Rita Felski, University of Virigina, author of The Limits of Critique and Hooked: Art and Attachment guides us through her actor-network-inspired theories and demonstrates how the key concepts of identification, empathy and attachment can illuminate our reading of Hanne Ørstavik’s novel Love. We also look at the pleasures of critique and the exaggeration of its significance, learn about Queer Theory as an inspiration to Postcritique, hear a resonant defence of Hartmut Rosa and get a glimpse of Rita Felski’s new book project.
(00:00:17) Introducing Rita Felski
(00:00:40) Rita Felski’s Connection to Scandinavia
(00:01:32) How Stefanie Encountered Rita’s Work
(00:02:14) On Uses of Literature
(00:04:20) How to Have Postcritical Conversations About Literature
(00:10:30) Other Ways of Looking at Literature And Art
(00:13:14) Circumventing the Dichotomy Subject vs. Object
(00:16:31) Actor-Network-Theory
(00:22:57) New Aesthetic Experiences
(00:28:47) Attachment to Theory
(00:35:51) Response to Critique of Rita Felski’s Approach
(00:44:28) Rita Felski’s Attachment to Hanne Ørstavik’s Kjærlighet/Love
(00:46:18) Introducing the Novel
(00:49:15) Identifying the Threat in the Novel
(00:52:26) Different Perspectives in the Novel
(00:54:52) Teaching Kjærlighet
(00:57:23) Identification in the Novel
(00:59:40) Student Question
(01:03:35) Varieties of Identification
(01:07:01) Identification With the Different Perspectives in Kjærlighet
(01:19:46) Intimacy
(01:22:42) Attunement
(01:27:57) Attunement and Identification as Potential Means to Knowledge
(01:33:27) Ironic Identification
(01:39:19) What Advice Would You Give Your Student-Self?
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Idea and conception: Stefanie von Schnurbein
Cut: Cecilia Falkman
nordlitt's first trailer announces a three-part miniseries on postcritique. Our guests in the coming weeks are Rita Felski (University of Virginia), Toril Moi (Duke University), and Kjersti Bale (Oslo University). This multi-lingual discussion prepared by a class on "Postkritisch podcasten" explores contested new approaches in literary studies.
Tone Selboe, University of Oslo, Norway, walks us through Norwegian author Cora Sandel's Paris and helps us drift through the thickets of literary modernism and realism. We talk about existences on the margin, painting with words and writing the moving body in this equally sensual and intellectual novel that has followed both Tone and Stefanie throughout their reading lives. We also welcome Cecilia Falkman, nordlitt's new student assistant. She navigates the technical and organizational aspects while bringing the perspective of a first-time reader to our conversation.
(00:00:15) Introducing Cecilia Falkman
(00:02:44) Introducing Tone Selboe
(00:07:31) Teaching, Study, and Communication
(00:10:55) Why Cora Sandel?
(00:12:40) Introducing Cora Sandel
(00:19:35) Contextualizing Cora Sandel’s Novels
(00:25:39) Breaking with the Establishment
(00:29:46) Modernism and Its Relation to Realism
(00:37:11) Introducing the Alberte-Series
(00:48:51) Alberte’s Social Context in Paris
(00:54:15) Foreshadowing and Backshadowing
(00:57:48) Descriptions and Use of Languages
(01:01:00) Objectification of Female Bodies
(01:11:26) Race and Gender in the Final Scene of “Alberte and Freedom”
(01:12:55) Sexuality, Motherhood and the Young Woman as an Artist
(01:22:48) Spaces and Movements
(01:31:25) Thinking, Feeling and Reading
(01:35:40) Translations and Style
(01:39:47) The Notion of Writing
(01:42:40) The Notion of Trauma
(01:44:39) Walking and Eroticism
(01:46:44) What Advice Would You Give Your Student-Self?
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Cut: Cecilia Falkman
nordlitt goes abroad and starts recording in English. Our first guest, Åsa Arping, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, introduces Fredrika Bremer, an international celebrity as well as a pioneer of the domestic novel and of feminism in Sweden. We look at plain heroines, writing novels and baking cake. We consider the blurred lines between writing, translating, and editing. And we speculate about the use of Bremer’s work in establishing an ideology of Viking heritage and white supremacy in the USA.
(00:56) Why a Scandinavian Literary Podcast?
(03:05) Introducing Åsa Arping
(10:50) Fascination and Obsession with Fredrika Bremer
(14:17) Introducing Fredrika Bremer
(19:15) Genre and Gender
(24:33) Establishment and Limits of the Domestic Novel
(26:02) Familjen H***
(29:55) Transitions Between Romanticism and Realism
(31:59) Power, Love, and Mad Women in Familjen H***
(43:05) Hertha as Bremer’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(51:08) Bremer’s Significance for Women’s Emancipation in Sweden
(55:44) How Literature Can Change Society
(59:54) The Destiny of Translated Literature
(01:06:26) Grannarna/The Neighbors
(01:11:40) What Does Bremer’s Work Mean to a (White) American Audience?
(01:17:08) Progressive Literature, Dark Ideology and Christianity
(01:25:01) ’Exoticizing’ Sweden in The U.S.
(01:33:58) Distribution of Novels
(01:41:20) Manuscripts and Critical Editions
(01:48:20) Blurred Lines Between Writing, Translation and Editing
(01:53:45) What Advice Would You Give Your Student-Self?
Bibliography, further information and comments is available on Experiment Geisteswissenschaft
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Idea and conception: Stefanie v. Schnurbein
Cut: Alva Reifenstein
Judith Meurer-Bongardt, Universität Bonn, geht Zusammenhängen zwischen der utopischen Literatur der finnlandschwedischen Modernistin Hagar Olsson und Johanna Sinisalos "schrägem" Schreiben nach. Es geht um den Aufbruch der Jugend in den 1920er-Jahren, kontrafaktisches historisches Erzählen und den Suchtfaktor von Chili, Lesen und anderen Drogen. Wir erkunden Humor als literarische Bewältigungsstrategie und spekulieren darüber, welche Aufgabe Literaturwissenschaft im Anthropozän haben könnte.
(00:00) Vorstellung und Forschungsschwerpunkte von Judith Meurer-Bongardt
(10:20) Hagar Olsson und der finnlandschwedische Modernismus im europäischen Kontext
(21:44) Im Kanaan-Express und seine Fragmente
(42:50) Rassismusdiskurs der Zeit und Faschismus in Finnland
(54:10) Frage von Hanna Rinderle an Judith Meurer-Bongardt
(56:53) Kontrollverlust und Unterwerfung beim Übersetzen
(01:02:55) finnish weird und global weirding
(01:20:35) Johanna Sinisalo - Finnisches Feuer
(01:34:58) Erzählen und Lesen als Überlebensstrategien
(01:50:56) staying with the trouble als literaturwissenschaftliche Praxis
(02:09:40) Was würdest Du Deinem Studierenden-Ich mitgeben?
Alle Literaturangaben, weitere Hinweise und Kommentare auf dem Experiment Geisteswissenschaft-Blog.
https://exgeist.hypotheses.org/1084
Idee und Konzept: Stefanie v. Schnurbein
Schnitt: Alva Reifenstein
Cecilia Falkman und Aleksandra Piotrowska, Skandinavistik-Studentinnen an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, vergleichen die Darstellung von Geisteskrankheiten und psychiatrischen Anstalten in zwei skandinavischen Romanen. Wir fragen nach der hierarchischen Aufspaltung zwischen Ärzten und Patienten, der Dichotomie von Klinik als Gefängnis oder Zufluchtsort und der Selbstwahrnehmung der Patienten. Mit Hilfe von Foucaults Heterotopien diskutieren wir auch die unsichtbaren Wände, die Kliniken zwischen Patienten und dem Rest der Gesellschaft stellen. Außerdem geht es um die Verbindung zwischen Krankheiten und literarischen Metaphern.
Diese Folge ist von Studierenden des kombinierten Bachelor- und Masterkurses „Tendenzen in der skandinavischen Gegenwartsliteratur“ im Wintersemester 2021/2022 am Nordeuropa-Institut entwickelt und ausgearbeitet worden.
Primärliteratur:
- Skram, Amalie: Professor Hieronimus. Oslo: Pax Forlag A.S, 1984.
- Stridsberg, Sara: Beckomberga – en ode till min familj. Leck: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2014.
- Stridsberg, Sara: Das große Herz. München: Carl Hanser Verlag, 2017.
Sekundärliteratur:
- Burrau, Elis: Intervju: Sara Stridsberg om nyutkomna ”Beckomberga – ode till min familj”. Nöjesguiden, 2014.
- Foucault, Michel: ”Andere Räume” In: Barck, Karlheinz u.a. (Hg.), Aisthesis. Wahrnehmung heute oder Perspektiven einer anderen Ästhetik, Leipzig 1992.
Weiteres:
- Knausgård, Linda Boström: Oktoberbarn. Oslo: Forlaget Oktober, 2020.
Sprache ist mehr als aneinandergereihte Wörter – Sprache ist Macht und Sprache ist Identität. In dieser Folge untersuchen Anne, Silvan und Charlotte, drei Studierende am Nordeuropa-Institut der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, genau das. Ausgehend von August Strindbergs „Fröken Julie” katapultieren sie sich in die Gegenwart zu Cecilie Engers’ „Mors gaver” und diskutieren über Sprache als soziales Kapital, über „Code Switching” und Wahrnehmung von Dialekten – insbesondere im universitären Raum. Haben Dialekte einen Platz an deutschen Universitäten? Ist akademische Sprache inklusiv – und muss sie das überhaupt sein?
Diese Folge ist von Studierenden des kombinierten Bachelor- und Masterkurses „Tendenzen in der skandinavischen Gegenwartsliteratur“ im Wintersemester 2021/2022 am Nordeuropa-Institut entwickelt und ausgearbeitet worden.
Literatur:
- Enger, Cecilie: Mors gaver. Oslo, 2013.
- Nesse, Guro: Bestseljarar i bokhandel og bibliotek: Ein analyse av Mors gaver (2013) og De unsynlige (2013) i eit litteratursosiologisk perspektiv. (Mastergradsoppgave) Borgund, 2016.
- Petterson, Per: Ut Og Stjaele Hester. 1. Oppl. ed. Oslo, 2003.
- Stien, Leila: Over Elva. Oslo, 2015.
- Strindberg, August: Fröken Julie. Stockholm, 1889.
- Stukenberg, Timo: „Image von Dialekten: Freindlich samma! Aber deppert?”. In: Spiegel Online (27.04.2015)
Manuela und Vadims, Student*innen der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin befassen sich in dieser Folge von nordlitt mit der Frage: Ist Spekulative Literatur das neue Nordic Noir? Dabei werden Manuela und Vadims uns in dieser Reise der spekulativen Literatur, sowie der Zugehörigkeit dieses Genres zum Nordic Noir, begleiten. Die zwei Stundent*innen geben eine Einführung und beschreiben ihre Erfahrungen und Zugänge zum Nordic Noir und zur spekulativen Literatur. In Anlehnung an die Folge mit Sophie Wennerscheid unterhalten sie sich über die im Podcast genannten Filme und Texte, diskutieren ihre Erkenntnisse und ziehen zum Schluss ein Fazit zu der Frage, ob spekulative Literatur wirklich das neue Nordic Noir sein könnte.
Diese Folge ist von Studierenden des kombinierten Bachelor- und Masterkurs' „Tendenzen in der skandinavischen Gegenwartsliteratur“ im Wintersemester 2021/2022 am Nordeuropa-Institut entwickelt und ausgearbeitet worden.
Primärliteratur:
- Eika, Jonas: "Rachel, Nevada" In: Efter Solen. Kopenhagen: Basilisk, 2018.
Sekundärliteratur:
- Gunhild, Agger: Nordic Noir – Location, Identity and Emotion. In: Alberto N. García (Hrsg.): Emotions in Contemporary TV Series, Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2016.
- Wennscheid, Sophie: "Die unheimlichen Kräfte der Natur in ‚spekulativen Seinserzählungen‘ von der Romantik bis zur Gegenwart" In: Fehrenbach, Frank; Hengst, Lutz; Middelhoff, Frederike und Zumbusch, Cornelia (Hg.): Form- und Bewegungskräfte (Imaginarien der Kraft, Bd. 2). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.
-Nestingen A., Arvas P.: Scandinavian Crime Fiction, University of Wales Press, 2011.
-Rieder, John: "Zur Definition von SF oder auch nicht. Genretheorie, ScienceFiction und Geschichte". In: Das Science- Fiction Jahr , 2016. Golkonda Verlag: S. 27–59.
Filme:
- Kågerman, Pella; Hugo, Lilja (2018): Aniara. Schweden, Dänemark: TIFF.
- Von Trier, Lars (2011): Melancholia. Dänemark, Schweden, Frankreich, Deutschland: BIM.