Lasse Horne Kjældgaard

Ville danske politikere i dag overhovedet kunne formulere idéen bag velfærdsstaten? Eller var politikerne simpelthen klogere og mere visionære i gamle dage? Den tidligste debat om velfærdsstaten var i vid udstrækning en kulturdebat, som ikke mindst litteraturen havde gode muligheder for at bidrage til. Meningen med velfærdsstaten af professor i dansk litteratur, dr.phil. og forfatter Lasse Horne Kjældgaard skildrer denne debat, som var en helt enestående dialog mellem politikere og forfattere. Bogen rummer læsninger af en række vigtige kunstneriske bidrag til denne samtale af bl.a. Villy Sørensen, Klaus Rifbjerg, Erik Knudsen, Anders Bodelsen og Henrik Stangerup. Deres litterære forestillinger om velfærdsstaten kaster interessante perspektiver på vores samtid, hvor den politiske debat ikke længere drejer sig om målet med velfærdsstaten, men om hvordan vi bevarer den. Måske endda så meget, at vi helt har glemt spørgsmålet om, hvad meningen med velfærdsstaten egentlig er.

Da litteraturen tog ordet - og politikerne lyttede

Meningen med velfærdsstaten

Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

Dan Ringgaard

Peter Simonsen

Lis Møller

Lilian Munk Rösing

How does literature work? And what does it mean? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment? How do we analyse and interpret a literary text, paying attention to its specific poetic and fictitious qualities? This wide-ranging introduction helps students to explore these and many other essential questions in the study of literature, criticism and theory. In a series of introductory chapters, leading international scholars present the fundamental topics of literary studies through conceptual definitions as well as interpretative readings of works familiar from a range of world literary traditions. In an easy-to-navigate format, Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis covers such topics as: ·Key definitions – from plot, character and style to genre, trope and author ·Literature's relationship to the surrounding world – ethics, politics, gender and nature ·Modes of literature and criticism – from books to performance, from creative to critical writing With annotated reading guides throughout and a glossary of major critical schools to help students when studying, revising and writing essays, this is an essential introduction and reference guide to the study of literature at all levels

Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis

The book proposes a radically revised understanding of the epoch of the Danish Golden Age by investigating the historical and literary contexts of Søren Kierkegaard’s pioneering thoughts on anxiety.

Lasse Horne Kjældgaard

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