”Sin fars rareste patent”: En nærlæsning af Lars Saabye Christensens roman Maskeblomstfamilien (2003) med inspiration fra en queerteoretisk tilgang

This article analyzes Lars Saabye Christensen’s novel Maskeblomstfamilien (2003) with a particular focus on uncovering how the novel portrays and addresses the shame and stigma associated with deviating from established gender norms. Drawing on Judith Butler’s works Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter, the article investigates the social regulation that the novel’s protagonist undergoes in 1960s Norway within the framework of the heterosexual matrix. While Butler’s theoretical texts do not provide extensive descriptions of how the regulation of the heterosexual matrix operates in practice and how it feels to be subjected to it, an analysis of Maske­blomstfamilien offers a more comprehensive understanding of how these regulations function in relation to the allocation of shame, acts of violence and hatred, institutional violence, and social exposure. Concurrently, the novel highlights the protagonist’s resistance to these regulations through strategies such as hyperbolic misquotation

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Ukronier i Svend Åge Madsens forfatterskab

NON-MIMETIC SCENARIOS IN SVEND AAGE MADSEN’S WRITINGS | In 2010 the article “Unnatural Narratives, Unnatural Narratology: Beyond Mimetic Models” appeared in the American journal Narrative, where the theory of an ‘unnatural narratology’ waspresented. This theory opposes the claim that the basic elements of narrative can be explained by models based on real-world parameters. According to this theory, narratives that feature impossible or anti-mimetic elements have been marginalized in existing narratological frameworks. This article discusses some of the concepts that are developed in the first manifesto of unnaturalnarratology and illustrates the applicability of these concepts in relation to a small selection of the numerous non-mimetic scenarios found in Svend Aage Madsen’s works

Interpretation:Its Status as Object or Method of Study in Cognitive and Unnatural Narratology

Narratology and literary studies have always had ambivalent attitudes toward interpretation. This article proposes that the recent divide between the research programs of cognitive and unnatural narratology is a new expression of a profound methodological schism. Reviewing the status of interpretation in cognitive and unnatural approaches to narrative, we contend that scholars in the cognitive camp have tended to treat interpretation as an object of study (i.e., investigating the interpretive process), while those in the unnatural field typically treat it as a method of study (i.e., practicing interpretation in the study of narratives). Relatedly, whereas cognitive narratology assumes continuity between the interpretive processes operative in narrative understanding and the rest of life, the unnatural approach emphasizes discontinuity between fiction (reading) and the everyday. To show how these different conceptual underpinnings feed into contrasting academic practices, we supplement this theoretical overview with a double case study of Hans Christian Andersen’s short story “ The Shadow” (“Skyggen”). Taking advantage of our diverse disciplinary backgrounds, we offer one “interpretation” from a cognitive perspective and one from an unnatural narratological perspective, followed by metaresponses to each other’s responses. By setting up a theoretical and methodological dialogue, we highlight the nature of the differences between the two approaches while also looking for possible sites of overlap and cooperation

Et opgør med Författaren: Slutningens betydning for Karl Ove Knausgårds Min Kamp

At the end of the sixth volume of My Struggle, Knausgård writes that he now wants to enjoy, “really enjoy the thought that I am no longer a writer.” These famous words have been read as the author’s farewell to his authorship, which was not, however, confirmed by the author’s further writings. In this article, I show that the closing words can be understood with reference to August Strindberg’s Forfättaren (1877- 1887) as a break with a particular image of the author to which My Struggle relates. This interpretation of the closing words also gives a completely new understanding of how My Struggle is doubleexposed with Strindberg’s autobiographical project, and thus far more constructed than has hitherto been recognized. This also sheds a different light on the work’s relationship to the autobiographical genre, its authenticity and character assassination

Morgenstjernens apokalypse: Science fiction, dommedag og Karl Ove Knausgård

This article examines narrative aspects of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s The Morning Star (2020) with a special interest in the novel’s supernatural and apocalyptic elements. At the publication of the book, it was discussed whether the supernatural events in the novel should be explained based on real-world frames and pre-existing cognitive parameters or more fantastical (NRK 2020). Within the framework of unnatural narratology, I want to emphasize that the narratives can go beyond imaginable real-world situations and a mimetic explanation may miss something crucial about the narrative when treating the unnatural as hallucinations or dreams.I denne artikel analyseres Karl Ove Knausgårds Morgenstjernen (2020) med særligt henblik på at vise hvorledes romanen forbinder sig til det overnaturlige og apokalyptiske og anvender motiver og greb med tilknytning til science fiction genren. Ved romanens udgivelse blev det diskuteret, hvorvidt de overnaturlige hændelser i romanen skulle forklares og naturliggøres som drømme og hallucinationer eller som fantastiske indslag (NRK 2020). Jeg vil med afsæt i den unaturlige narratologi betone vigtigheden af at lade det overnaturlige forblive muligt i romanens rum, da det overnaturlige fordrer andre fortolkningsstrategier end dem, man anvender i en hverdagslig kontekst, hvorved samtidens problemer kan belyses fra andre vinkler