Post-Medium Literature? Two Examples of Contemporary Scandinavian

• Authors: Jørgen Bruhn
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article discusses two contemporary Scandinavian literary texts: Ursula Andkjaer Olsen’s Danish book of poetry called Havet er en scene [The Sea Is a Stage], and Abo Rasul’s (pseudonym for Matias Faldbakken) Norwegian novel Unfun. I intend to show that these texts exemplify two very different but nevertheless comparable positions in contemporary Scandinavian literature. Despite the differences, they resemble each other in that they actively mix medial constellations to offer social critique, and the aim of this article is thus to investigate the specific relation between medial mixture and social critique.

Keywords

EN

Intermediality; post-medium. Rosalind Krauss; Abo Rasul/Matias Faldbakken. Ursula Andkjaer Olsen

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 79-94

Dates

published

2013-07-01

online

2014-05-30

Contributors

author

Jørgen Bruhn

• Linnæus University, Växjö Department of Film and Literature

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/ausp-2014-0007