I dette nummer anmeldes følgende: "Byen tæmmes. Kernefamilie, sociale reformer og velgørenhed i 1800-tallets København" (Karin Lützen), "Fædre og fødsler" (Svend Aage Madsen), "En mor bliver til - hvordan oplevelsen af moderskab forandrer dig for bestandig" (Daniel N. Stern, Nadis Bruschweiler-Stern og Alison Freeland), "Køn, virksomhed og kompetence" (Eva Bendix Petersen). "Feminisme og litteraturvidenskab" (K&K temanummer), "Det bløde punkt" (Jette Hansen), "Min mosters migræne" (Hanne-Vibeke Holst)
?Min roman Indvandreren er den mest politiske bog der er udkommet i 2011? er journalisten Olav Hergel blevet citeret for at sige. Han har ret hvis man med politisk litteratur forst?r en bog der direkte tematiserer en problemstilling der spiller en vigtig rolle i den politiske debat. Det g?r indvandrersp?rgsm?let i Danmark. Til geng?ld er Hergels historie som roman betragtet yderst traditionel, ja konservativ i sin valoriserede skildring af the good guy and the bad guys. I sin form er Hergel reaktion?r, i sit indhold er han ?venstredrejet?. Hvordan skal man placere en roman som norske Abo Rasuls interart-eksperimenterende Macht und Rebel der udspiller sig i en polariseret subkultur? Jeg vil tale om forskellige tilgange til konstellationen ?litteratur og politik?. Politiske konfliktmateriale kan tematiseres i et v?rk men der er ogs? andre m?der et kunstv?rk kan give det politiske en stemme. Det afd?de das beckwerk udg?r en radikal pol, idet forfatteren gang p? gang afvikler forfatteren som institutionel kategori og han s?tter eksistensen p? spil ved at afvikle sit jeg og ved at g?re forfatterrollen til et performativt nummer. Dertil kommer at hans rejsende eksperimenter, b?gernes ?hvad?, ogs? har klar politisk tyngde ? parodiske indf?ring af demokrati i Irak fx Kunsten skal transformeres til ny v?ren: ?Det, jeg og das Beckwerk fors?ger, er ikke at v?re kunstner eller at producere kunst, men at opdage, udvikle og skabe nye handlings- og v?rensformer med en stor formbevidsthed?. En anden kunstnerisk strategi finder man hos Lars Skinnebach, der fx i digtsamlingen Din misbruger angriber og h?ner sin l?ser: Skinnebach fastholder v?rkenheden, mens das Beckwerk er tilb?jelig til at afvikle den. Til geng?ld tematiseres Skinnebach eksplicit interaktionen med l?seren. Det politiske kan ogs? ligge i en litter?r annektering af den relationelle ?stetik. Hvis det er rigtigt at litteraturen som udtryksform er ved at bliver begravet i mediekulturen og dermed marginaliseret ? og litteraturvidenskaben samtidig ser ud til at have stadig sv?rere ved at skaffe eksterne forskningsmidler ? hvordan kan litteraturen revitalisere sin dialog med l?serne om v?sentlige forhold ? herunder politiske omst?ndigheder ? og hvordan kan litteraturvidenskaben tilsvarende fokusere p? forhold som ikke kun er indlysende centrale for litterater?
After a presentation of horses including a long line of proper names and of the remaining mammals and birds on the farm in the Middle Ages, follows an examination of the lives of these domestic animals and their exploitation and an enumeration of their appearance within ideas, language and fantasy. Furthermore, the book contains various tables and an index as well as a bibliography.
The work of A. Tabucchi, one of Italy's greatest contemporary writers, is imbued with the topic of individual identity. His texts query the self-perception, the relation with the Other and the relation with the historical and cultural world while expressing at all these levels an experience of dissolution: the self is fragmented and fragile; the Other is always absent and missed, and instead of being engaged in the present world, the subject lives in an intangible reality that does not make any sense. This profound existential anxiety and the weakening of identity are emphasized by the very way of narrating of Tabucchi which is disconnected, enigmatic and full of silences. The book by Pia Schwarz Lausten describes various manifestations of the above-mentioned experience through the textual analysis of a series of figures and motives such as memory and absence, reversal and multiplicity, the said and the unsaid, history and commitment. Some of these motives involve on the one hand existential and philosophical aspects, and on the other aesthetical and literary values.
The analysis is based on two theoretical perspectives that in different ways describe an overcoming of a classical subjectivity in favour of an idea of which the Other or Alterity is an essential element to the definition of individual identity: M. Bachtin's concept of "dialogism" and G. Vattimo's "weak thought". The former serves to define the narrating subject in Tabucchi's texts characterized by different discourse levels and others' words. The latter concept describes the position of the subject of post-modernity determined by a weakening of the strong structures of modern thought.
The book is written in Italian.
Pia Schwarz Lausten, PhD, is post doc at the Departement of English, German and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen.
The writer Karin Michaëlis was one of the best known Danish writers outside of Denmark in the first half of the 20th century, especially in Germany and Austria. Her novels primarily convey the lives of women at the ages of puberty and menopause and were published in very large print runs, just as her stories about the girl Bibi were among the most read children's books in Europe. Today, hardly anyone remembers her. Taking Michaëlis' early utopian novel as her point of departure, Birgit S. Nielsen sketches an image of the time and a portrait of the colourful artist and unconventional cultural figure, who spent much of her life and a lot of money on helping people in distress.
Birgit S. Nielsen, MA, is a senior lecturer in the Department of German and Dutch at the University of Copenhagen.
The letter is the most widespread literary genre at all. For several hundred years letter books containing model letters for lovers have been published, while today they have been camouflaged as "manuals" for internet dating. John Chr. Jørgensen analyses the epistolary form in correspondences, epistolary novels and letters of travel through the past 150 years. En route the most recent – especially American – research in epistolary theory is presented and discussed. The book contains analyses of epistolary novels by M.A. Goldsmidt, Peter Nansen, Karin Michaëlis, Edith Rode, Sven Holm, Dea Trier Mørch, Iselin C. Hermann and Anders Bodelsen among others. The journalistic travelogue is traced from Herman Bang to Henrik Nordbrandt. The book is provided with a literary guide sorted out by subject, a subject index and an index of names.
