Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

Ord skaber mening, ligesom klæder skaber folk. Glemmer vi kommaet i en ansøgning, og rimer vi falsk i en bryllupssang, skriver andre det sig bag øret. Trods internettets billedstorme er der nemlig ingen tegn på, at skriften går i glemmebogen. For ord siger tusindfold, og tekster gør os civiliserede, fortæller ordkløvende litteraturhistoriker Mads Rosendahl Thomsen. Han grifler løs om taleskrivere og romanforfattere, der udfolder ideer og fremmaner verdener i essays og romaner. Nu har vi givet ordet til robotterne. Og hvad de gør med teksten, er en historie, der endnu ikke er skrevet.

Tekst

Jakob Ladegaard

Tore Rye Andersen

Verden er fyldt med fascinerende tekster. Klassikere som Homer, Cervantes og Shakespeare. Men også mange, vi sjældent hører om. Hâfez, Cortázar, Slessor. Verdenslitteraturer. Introduktion til litteraturen uden for Europa er en grundbog, der guider læseren sikkert gennem et utal af nationallitteraturer, sprogområder og forfatterskaber fra Sydamerika over Nordamerika, Rusland og Kina til Australien, Indien, Mellemøsten og Nordafrika.​ Rejs med til verdens fjernere egne, og find ud af, hvorfor myrer er en af den brasilianske litteraturs onder, hvilke historier samer og grønlændere fortæller om deres liv, hvordan afrikanske forfattere definerer sig selv ud fra lokale og koloniale sprog, og om migrantlitteratur er en ny form for verdenslitteratur. Bogen fokuserer på den litteratur, som ikke fylder meget i uddannelser, bogudgivelser og medier, men som trækker tråde tilbage i verdenshistorien og tilbyder alternative perspektiver på vor tids globaliserede verden. Den viser, hvordan verdens litteraturer opstår i mødet mellem nationale traditioner og globale strømninger, og hvordan menneskelig erfaring overalt har ført til litterær kvalitet.

Introduktion til litteraturen uden for Europa

Verdenslitteraturer

Dan Ringgaard

Lilian Munk Rosing

Lasse Horne KjAeldgaard

Lis Moller

Introduktion Til Teori Og Analyse

Litteratur

Despite being a minor language, Danish literature is one of the world's most actively translated, and the Scandinavian country is the home of a number of significant writers. Hans Christian Andersen remains one of the most translated authors in the world, philosopher Søren Kierkegaard inspired modern Existentialism, Karen Blixen chronicled her life in colonial Kenya as well as writing imaginary, cosmopolitan tales, and the writers among the circles of literary critic Georg Brandes in the late 19th century were especially important to the further development of European Modernism. Danish Literature as World Literature introduces key figures from 800 years of Danish literature and their impact on world literature. It includes chapters devoted to post-1945 literature on beat and systemic poetry as well as the Scandinavia noir vogue that includes both crime fiction and cinema and is enjoying worldwide popularity.

Danish Literature as World Literature

Peter Simonsen

Lis Møller

Lilian Munk Rösing

Lasse Horne Kjældgaard

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

Theo D'haen

César Domínguez

World Literature is an increasingly influential subject in literary studies, which has led to the re-framing of contemporary ideas of ‘national literatures’, language and translation. World Literature: A Reader brings together thirty essential readings which display the theoretical foundations of the subject, as well as showing its conceptual development over a two hundred year period. The book features: an illuminating introduction to the subject, with suggested reading paths to help readers navigate through the materials texts exploring key themes such as globalization, cosmopolitanism, post/trans-nationalism, and translation and nationalism writings by major figures including J. W. Goethe, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Longxi Zhao, David Damrosch, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Pascale Casanova and Milan Kundera. The early explorations of the meaning of ‘Weltliteratur’ are introduced, while twenty-first century interpretations by leading scholars today show the latest critical developments in the field. The editors offer readers the ideal introduction to the theories and debates surrounding the impact of this crucial area on the modern literary landscape.

A Reader

World Literature Reader

Twentieth-century literature changed understandings of what it meant to be human. Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, in this historical overview, presents a record of literature's changing ideas of mankind, questioning the degree to which literature records and creates visions of the new human. Grounded in the theory of Niklas Luhmann and drawing on canonical works, Thomsen uses literary changes in the mind, body and society to define the new human. He begins with the modernist minds of Virginia Woolf, Williams Carlos Williams and Louis-Ferdinand Celine's, discusses the society-changing concepts envisioned by Chinua Achebe, Mo Yan and Orhan Pamuk. He concludes with science fiction, discussing Don DeLillo and Michel Houellebecq's ideas of revolutionizing man through biotechnology. This is a study about imagination, aesthetics and ethics that demonstrates literature's capacity to not only imagine the future but portray the conflicting desires between individual and various collectives better than any other media. A study that heightens reflections on human evolution and posthumanism.

Posthuman Visions of Changes in Body, Mind and Society after 1900

The New Human in Literature

Karen-Margrethe Simonsen

Marianne Ping Huang

The history of the Novel is a story of perpetual change, so that its identity still remains open to question. The sixteen articles inReinventions of the Novel investigate connections, differences and similarities in the Novel around the world for the past three hundred years. Rather than searching for the essence of the genre, they look for the formal and thematic patterns on which the novel thrives, considering such matters as tradition and modernity, realism, rhetoric and identity, tableau and spatiality, and wondering whether epic and avant-garde are not quite contradictory terms. Close readings combined with historical overviews and theoretical discussions open up new constellations in the history of the novel. Untraditional cross-readings are made between Rabelais and Jens Peter Jacobsen and between Balzac and Nicholson Baker. Transformations of traditional modes of epic, biography and Bildung are traced as far as Georges Perec and Günter Grass, while canonical classics like Proust, Joyce, Richardson and Goethe are read in prosaic, pragmatic and media specific contexts. In the 1920s many people predicted the death of the novel; now more than ever it seems to be the dominant literary form – perhaps because it is the same, yet always different.

Histories and Aesthetics of a Protean Genre

Reinventions of the Novel

Jacob Wamberg

As our ideas of the human have come under increasing challenges – from technological change, from medical advances, from the existential threat of climate crisis, from an ideological decentering of the human, amongst many other things – the 'posthuman' has become an increasingly central topic in the Humanities. Bringing together leading scholars from across the world and a wide range of disciplines, this is the most comprehensive available survey of cutting edge contemporary scholarship on posthumanism in literature, culture and theory. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism explores: - Central critical concepts and approaches, including transhumanism, new materialism and the Anthropocene - Ethical perspectives on ecology, race, gender and disability - Technology, from data and artificial intelligence to medicine and genetics - A wide range of genres and forms, from literary and science fiction, through film, television and music, to comics, video games and social media.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism

om litteraturhistorie, kanonstudier og 1920'ernes litteratur

Kanoniske konstellationer

Covering definitions of key terms, important debates about literature and the world and the many forms of literature today, this is a comprehensive introduction to key topics in the study of literature, criticism and theory.

LAes, lAes, lAes! Spring ind i litteraturens verden, og find ud af, hvorfor personer af papir kan pirre os, hvad boger kan fortAelle om klimaet, hvordan begAer fungerer pa skrift, og om vi bliver bedre mennesker af at lAese litteratur.Men tag denne grundbog med - Litteratur. Introduktion til teori og analyse guider lAeseren gennem det litterAere landskab i 37 kapitler, der hver beskriver et noje udvalgt, overordnet tema - fra troper, karakterer og genrer over moral, stemme og erindring til oversAettelse, performance og remediering.Bogen fratager de teoretiske skoler deres traditionelle forrang og stiller skarpt pa, hvordan litteratur bedst kan lAeses pa tvAers af forskningsfelter og metoder. Den er baseret pa de nyeste faglige indsigter og prAesenterer litteraturvidenskabens centrale problemer og vAerktojer i en konstant vekslen mellem teoretiske udfordringer og analytiske indsigter.

Introduktion til teori og analyse

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

Kasper LippertRasmussen

If biotechnology can be used to upgrade humans physically and mentally, should it be used at all? And, if so, to what extent? How will biotechnology affect societal cohesion? Can the development be controlled, or is this a Pandoras box that should remain closed? These are but a few of the perplex questions facing scientists as a result of the increasing ability of technology to change biology and, in turn, profoundly change human living conditions. This development has created a new posthuman horizon that will influence contemporary life and politics in a number of ways.The anthology brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines: biotechnology, medicine, ethics, politics, and aesthetics, and among contributors are Francis Fukuyama, Julian Savulescu, Maxwell Mehlman, John Harris and Chris Hables Gray.

Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics of Biotechnological Challenges

The Posthuman Condition

Stefan Helgesson

Literature and the World presents a broad and multifaceted introduction to world literature and globalization. The book provides a brief background and history of the field followed by a wide spectrum of exemplary readings and case studies from around the world. Amongst other aspects of World Literature, the authors look at: New approaches to digital humanities and world literature Ecologies of world literature Rethinking geography in a globalized world Translation Race and political economy Offering state of the art debates on world literature, this volume is a superb introduction to the field. Its critically thoughtful approach makes this the ideal guide for anyone approaching World Literature.

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