Head of the department for Scandinavian Studies and Experience Economy and Associate Professor in Scandinavian Studies at Aarhus University. My research interests and teaching span a wide range of topics from how new literature deals with mediatized cultural context to autobiograpichal novels and poems and autofiction. I have published widely in the field of modern literary theory, interaction between literature and media, and narratology. Phone: +45 60897380 Address: Jens Chr. Skous Vej 2, Nobelparken 1485, 8000 Aarhus C
This book’s inquiry into contemporary poetry takes two directions. The first direction leads to s... more This book’s inquiry into contemporary poetry takes two directions. The first direction leads to several close examinations of digital, multi-modal and performative poetry, and how perspectives or perhaps just an awareness of a new media landscape recondition our understanding of an old literary genre. The second direction expands into considerations of contextual theories of affect and atmosphere, to materiality studies and towards the heterogenic field of politics, for example feminism, minority studies, digital and environmental humanities or cosmopolitanism. Hence, the question the articles in this volume pose is whether this match of mediatization and new sensibilities can be seen as a major novel development in the history of poetry. With the title Dialogues on Poetry we wish to signal that the answer to this question can only be pursued through the ongoing process involved in defining, discussing and describing how poetry responds to the substantial changes of our media-saturated circumstances and environments.
This article focuses on contemporary autobiographical Danish poetry following the publication of ... more This article focuses on contemporary autobiographical Danish poetry following the publication of Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard’s novel Min kamp [My Struggle], originally published between 2009 and 2011 [My Struggle (2012–2018)]. Focusing on the 2013 poetry collection Yahya Hassan by the Danish-Palestinian poet Yahya Hassan, this article argues that the lyrical autobiographical voice escapes its narrative construction in fiction, illustrating a lyrical ‘I’ in contemporary autobiographical poetry that is ‘beyond fiction’. Paradoxically, this is due in part to Knausgaard’s novel, where moving beyond fiction is about discovering an artistic and authentic way to re-establish a proximity to the world. Through the examination of Hassan’s poetry collection and the immediate literary context, this article explores the underlying moral, aesthetic, and mediatized aspects of lyrical self-presentation in contemporary Danish poetry, and more generally. Self-disclosure and the use of privat...
This book’s inquiry into contemporary poetry takes two directions. The first direction leads to s... more This book’s inquiry into contemporary poetry takes two directions. The first direction leads to several close examinations of digital, multi-modal and performative poetry, and how perspectives or perhaps just an awareness of a new media landscape recondition our understanding of an old literary genre. The second direction expands into considerations of contextual theories of affect and atmosphere, to materiality studies and towards the heterogenic field of politics, for example feminism, minority studies, digital and environmental humanities or cosmopolitanism. Hence, the question the articles in this volume pose is whether this match of mediatization and new sensibilities can be seen as a major novel development in the history of poetry. With the title Dialogues on Poetry we wish to signal that the answer to this question can only be pursued through the ongoing process involved in defining, discussing and describing how poetry responds to the substantial changes of our media-saturated circumstances and environments.
This article focuses on contemporary autobiographical Danish poetry following the publication of ... more This article focuses on contemporary autobiographical Danish poetry following the publication of Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard’s novel Min kamp [My Struggle], originally published between 2009 and 2011 [My Struggle (2012–2018)]. Focusing on the 2013 poetry collection Yahya Hassan by the Danish-Palestinian poet Yahya Hassan, this article argues that the lyrical autobiographical voice escapes its narrative construction in fiction, illustrating a lyrical ‘I’ in contemporary autobiographical poetry that is ‘beyond fiction’. Paradoxically, this is due in part to Knausgaard’s novel, where moving beyond fiction is about discovering an artistic and authentic way to re-establish a proximity to the world. Through the examination of Hassan’s poetry collection and the immediate literary context, this article explores the underlying moral, aesthetic, and mediatized aspects of lyrical self-presentation in contemporary Danish poetry, and more generally. Self-disclosure and the use of privat...
This book’s inquiry into contemporary poetry takes two directions. The first direction leads to s... more This book’s inquiry into contemporary poetry takes two directions. The first direction leads to several close examinations of digital, multi-modal and performative poetry, and how perspectives or perhaps just an awareness of a new media landscape recondition our understanding of an old literary genre. The second direction expands into considerations of contextual theories of affect and atmosphere, to materiality studies and towards the heterogenic field of politics, for example feminism, minority studies, digital and environmental humanities or cosmopolitanism. Hence, the question the articles in this volume pose is whether this match of mediatization and new sensibilities can be seen as a major novel development in the history of poetry. With the title Dialogues on Poetry we wish to signal that the answer to this question can only be pursued through the ongoing process involved in defining, discussing and describing how poetry responds to the substantial changes of our media-saturated circumstances and environments.
Per Højholt var én af det 20. århundredes væsentligste nordiske digtere. Med sit usædvanlige tale... more Per Højholt var én af det 20. århundredes væsentligste nordiske digtere. Med sit usædvanlige talent var han en drivende kraft i moderniseringen af dansk litteratur fra 1960'erne og frem.
Denne bog er en introduktion til hans forfatterskab, skrevet til litteraturstuderende og undervisere i litteratur. Bogen beskæftiger sig med væsentlige tekster ud fra en periodeinddeling af forfatterskabet og kaster især nyt lys over den tidlige og sene fase, ligesom den introducerer til centrale tematikker i Højholts nyskabende tekster og præsenterer hans knivskarpe litteratursyn.
"Skulle man nogensinde fortryde, at man har ladet sig føde, eller blot synes at nu har det varet længe nok, så kunne man bare gå herop og lægge sig og nyde stilheden og udsigten, sålænge det nu ville vare. Det må være et smukt sted at tørre ind. Hørbylundemanden."
Denne bog introducerer begrebet fiktionalitet og viser, hvordan fx politiske taler, dokumentarfil... more Denne bog introducerer begrebet fiktionalitet og viser, hvordan fx politiske taler, dokumentarfilm og facebook-opdateringer kan benytte sig af fiktionaliserede former for kommunikation.
Fiktionalitet anvendes således både i og uden for traditionelle fiktioner som et middel til at opnå bestemte mål i virkeligheden. Fiktionalitet bør derfor ikke kun forbindes med romaner, noveller eller spillefilm, men også med andre former for tekster og fortællinger.
Gennem en række analyser vises det i bogen, hvordan afsendere kan bruge fiktionalitet strategisk til fx selvfremstilling, politisk spin, samfundskritik og som redskab til udvikling af den kunst og kulturscene, der i tiltagende grad er medialiseret.
Bogen henvender sig til studerende ved lange og mellemlange uddannelser, hvor der undervises i dansk, litteratur eller kultur og medier, og vil være interessant for gymnasie- og seminarielærere i forbindelse med tværfaglige samarbejder.
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Hence, the question the articles in this volume pose is whether this match of mediatization and new sensibilities can be seen as a major novel development in the history of poetry. With the title Dialogues on Poetry we wish to signal that the answer to this question can only be pursued through the ongoing process involved in defining, discussing and describing how poetry responds to the substantial changes of our media-saturated circumstances and environments.
Denne bog er en introduktion til hans forfatterskab, skrevet til litteraturstuderende og undervisere i litteratur. Bogen beskæftiger sig med væsentlige tekster ud fra en periodeinddeling af forfatterskabet og kaster især nyt lys over den tidlige og sene fase, ligesom den introducerer til centrale tematikker i Højholts nyskabende tekster og præsenterer hans knivskarpe litteratursyn.
"Skulle man nogensinde fortryde, at man har ladet sig føde, eller blot synes at nu har det varet længe nok, så kunne man bare gå herop og lægge sig og nyde stilheden og udsigten, sålænge det nu ville vare. Det må være et smukt sted at tørre ind. Hørbylundemanden."
Fiktionalitet anvendes således både i og uden for traditionelle fiktioner som et middel til at opnå bestemte mål i virkeligheden. Fiktionalitet bør derfor ikke kun forbindes med romaner, noveller eller spillefilm, men også med andre former for tekster og fortællinger.
Gennem en række analyser vises det i bogen, hvordan afsendere kan bruge fiktionalitet strategisk til fx selvfremstilling, politisk spin, samfundskritik og som redskab til udvikling af den kunst og kulturscene, der i tiltagende grad er medialiseret.
Bogen henvender sig til studerende ved lange og mellemlange uddannelser, hvor der undervises i dansk, litteratur eller kultur og medier, og vil være interessant for gymnasie- og seminarielærere i forbindelse med tværfaglige samarbejder.