What can literary studies be? Toril Moi, Duke University, author of Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell inspires us to educate our judgment and claims that finding a question is the work of literary studies. She helps us read Vigdis Hjorth’s Will and Testament as…
Stefanie v. Schnurbein · Experiment Geisteswissenschaft
How does aesthetic experience come about? Rita Felski, University of Virigina, author of The Limits of Critique and Hooked: Art and Attachment guides us through her actor-network-inspired theories and demonstrates how the key concepts of identification, empathy and attachment can illuminate our reading of Hanne Ørstavik’s novel Love. We also look at the pleasures of…
Stefanie v. Schnurbein · Experiment Geisteswissenschaft
nordlitt’s first trailer announces a three-part miniseries on postcritique. Our guests in the coming weeks are Rita Felski (University of Virginia), Toril Moi (Duke University), and Kjersti Bale (Oslo University). This multi-lingual discussion prepared by a class on “Postkritisch podcasten” explores contested new approaches in literary studies. Diesen Artikel zitieren:…
Stefanie v. Schnurbein · Experiment Geisteswissenschaft
Tone Selboe, University of Oslo, Norway, walks us through Norwegian author Cora Sandel’s Paris and helps us drift through the thickets of literary modernism and realism. We talk about existences on the margin, painting with words and writing the moving body in this equally sensual and intellectual novel that has…
Stefanie v. Schnurbein · Experiment Geisteswissenschaft
nordlitt goes abroad and starts recording in English. Our first guest, Åsa Arping, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, introduces Fredrika Bremer, an international celebrity as well as a pioneer of the domestic novel and of feminism in Sweden. We look at plain heroines, writing novels and baking cake. We consider the blurred…