New Materialism’s Second Phase

Influx and Efflux. Writing up with Walt Whitman by Jane Bennett. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 224 pp. $25.9

Den sociale vending = velfærdsskepsis?

Anmeldelse af Tue Andersen Nexø: Vidnesbyrd fra velfærdsstaten - Den sociale vending i ny dansk litteratur. Arena, København, 2016

Kropsmodernismen genbesøgt: En nymaterialistisk revurdering af firserpoesien hos Henrik S. Holck og Pia Tafdrup

Danish literary histories often depict the 80ies as a period in which questions of corporeality moved to the foreground of the poetics of its poets. Dubbing this move »corporeal modernism« (»kropsmodernisme«), scholars have explained this new agenda as an attempt to reclaim stability in late modernity, an era in which all grand narratives have allegedly collapsed, and the world of new media increasingly fragments perceptions of reality. This article argues that such explanations fail to recognize that a significant amount of poetry from the 80ies does not view the body as the subject’s existential and ontological foundation, but perceives it, rather, as a fluctuating materiality that merges the human with a more-than-human world. The article takes Pia Tafdrup’s Intetfang (1982) and Henrik S. Holck’s Vi må være som alt (1978) as symptomatic examples of this trend and characterizes their more-than-human bodies as watery flesh and cosmological skin respectively. Ultimately, the aim of the article is to problematize established constructions of »corporeal modernism« and stake out some of the ways in which the literary history of Danish poetry in the 80ies could be re-written

Hvad er forfatterskolelitteratur?

Peter Stein Larsen, Martin Gregersen and Tobias SkiverenHvad er forfatterskolelitteratur? (What is literature from author schools?). The article offers an initial characterization of critical attitudes to and conceptions of literature from author schools, which it finds erroneous and prejudiced. It continues to present the three most notable traditions based on a survey of 44 author school débuts. The three traditions are: avant-garde, prose lyricism, and prose realism, and in this connection more specifically a selection of the techniques each tradition utilizes, i.e. conceptualism, unceremonious attitudes and the plausible character portrait.&nbsp