Litteraturstudier: skønlitteratur og forfattere

Representing a shift in Carter studies for the 21st century, this book critically explores her legacy and showcases the current state of Angela Carter scholarship. It gives new insights into Carter's pyrotechnic creativity and pays tribute to her incendiary imagination in a reappraisal of Angela Carter's work, her influences and influence. Drawing attention to the highly constructed artifice of Angela Carter's work, it brings to the fore her lesser-known collection of short stories, Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces to reposition her as more than just the author of The Bloody Chamber. On the way, it also explores the impact of her experiences living in Japan, in the light of Edmund Gordon's 2016 biography and Natsumi Ikoma's translation of Sozo Araki's Japanese memoirs of Carter.

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In a series of warm and often funny letters, Kim Adrian delivers a compelling feminist critique of the 6-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, by Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard.

27 bidrag indvier os i kunsten at oversætte, især skønlitteratur, primært til dansk ‒ og belyser det danske sprogs rolle i udlandet, historisk og kulturelt. Nogle af vores bedste oversættere præsenterer mange praktiske og teoretiske overvejelser. Hvordan kan man bedst være tro mod originalteksten uden at oversætte ordret? Hvad skal en litterær oversætter kunne? Er maskinoversættelse blevet en allieret med et tveægget sværd? Foruden retstolkning, tegnsprog og kunstsprog kommer antologien omkring en halv snes nære og fjerne sprog fra oldtiden til det 21. århundrede og deres indflydelse på dansk.Klaus Rifbjerg: O, den vejLars Bonnevie: Oversætterens dilemmaerPeter Poulsen: Oversætterens anmærkningerSusanne Bernstein: Den finurlige proces med at oversætte til danskNiels Brunse: Buddenbrooks i dansk perspektivHans Christian Fink: En rejse i sprogetViggo Hjørnager Pedersen: Knap så sødt og velsignet – H.C. Andersen i engelsk oversættelseKai Møller Nielsen: Humor kontra satire – Om at oversætte Aristofanes' komedierSøren Schønberg Sørensen: At oversætte Petrarca – Motto: Det at oversætte digte kræver en digter.Anne Marie Bjerg: Det nære sprog, det svære sprog: SvenskThomas Harder: Italienske krimi-noterMette Tønnesen: Dansk skønlitteratur i italiensk oversættelseJudyta Preis & Jørgen Herman Monrad: Om at oversætte Bruno SchulzJean Renaud: Er det muligt at oversætte fra dansk til fransk?Jean Renaud: Dansk i Frankrig eller …? – Når franskmænd lærer danskJørgen Chemnitz: Sproget er et mellemrumAnders Bay: Brobygning mellem Holland og DanmarkMads Büchert Eskildsen: Lingvistiske aspekter af oversættelse fra russiskShëkufe Tadayoni Heiberg: At sætte sproget overEllen Wulff: Giv kejseren, hvad kejserens erBjørn Z. Simonsen: Kunstsproget ithkuilPeter Bjerre Rosa: Kampen mod uretClaus Thornby Larsen: Når maskinerne oversætterGitte Schmidt: Dansk i EUPhilip Thinggaard: Spøgelse på æggeskaller – Om at tolke fremmedsprog i retssalenSofie Jørgensen: Med tegnsprogstolken på arbejdeErik Skyum-Nielsen: Oversætterens dobbelte hensyn

Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction examines how the Anthropocene and its challenges are addressed by contemporary writers in a variety of genres broadly defined as speculative fiction. The book demonstrates that speculative fiction, can alter the readers' perception of their duties and responsibilities towards their communities.

This book opens up new perspectives on the English fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien, arguing that he was an influential thinker of utopianism in 20th-century fiction and that his scrutiny of utopias can be assessed through his dialogue with antiquity. Tolkien's engagement with the ancient world often reflects an interest in retrotopianism: his fictional places - cities, forests, homes - draw on a rich (post-)classical narrative imagination of similar spaces. Importantly for Tolkien, such narratives entail 'eutopian' thought experiments: the decline and fall of distinctly 'classical' communities provide an utopian blueprint for future political restorations; the home as oikos becomes a space where an ideal ethical reciprocity between host and guest can be sought; the 'ancient forest' is an ambiguous, unsettling site where characters can experience necessary forms of awakening. From these perspectives, tokens of Platonic moderation, Augustan restoration, Homeric xenophilia, and the Ovidian material sublime are evident in Tolkien's writing. Likewise, his retrotopianism also always entails a rewriting of ancient narratives in post-classical and modern terms. This study then explores how Tolkien's use of the classical past can help us to align classical and utopian studies, and thus to reflect on the ranges and limits of utopianism in classical literature and thought.

This expansive edited collection explores in depth the georgic genre and its connections to the natural world. It is a much-needed volume for literary critics, academics and students engaged in ecocritical studies, environmental humanities and literature, addressing a significantly overlooked environmental literary genre.

In this iconoclastic and sure to be contentious re-casting by a renowned critic, the great American novel Moby Dick is presented as a work that has been widely misread, an error that continues to this day. According to Barry Sanders, Herman Melville's best- known work is not a novel, does not pretend to be a novel, and was not intended by its author to be read as a novel. Moby Dick is this country's first manifesto, a tocsin sounded to warn us about the encroaching end of nature.  The Manifesto of Herman Melville traces the evolution of Moby Dick-from its awful, initial reception, very rapidly passing out of print, to its remarkable revival to become lauded as one of America's great literary classics.  That turnaround happened in the early decades of the 20th century and was, in great part, the result of the new and radical aesthetic movements such as surrealism, dadaism, and cubism that allowed for a radical reading of the book. The novel's new standing as one of the keystones of the American cannon disguises its deeper meaning as an alarm bell, an obscuring which Barry Sanders, in a critical assessment that is as persuasive as it is provocative, seeks to clear away. Sanders argues that Moby Dick needs to be recognized as Melville's manifesto: a bold statement warning of the destruction of the natural world made most evident in the book's central metaphor the relentless pursuit to kill the whale, the first sentient being in Genesis and one of the most startling mammals-possessed of hair and scales, a tail and breasts-and the largest of the creatures on earth, weighing up to 400,000 pounds. Whalers in Melville's day hunted down and killed these extraordinary behemoths of nature, for their oil, sold to people for cooking and to light their homes. Today the pursuit for energy has shifted dramatically, from sea to land,  but the prize remains the same:  energy producing fuel for which entrepreneurs and adventurers are prepared to kill off all of nature.

An important resource not only for scholars and students of Japanese literature, comparative literature, and world literature but also for readers who would like to gain a deeper appreciation of Haruki Murakami's literary world.

This companion presents a critical collection of Sinhala resistance literature from Sri Lanka. It includes translated short stories and excerpts from Sinhala novels, written after the civil war in the country. Featuring national award-winning writers, the selected texts share a common theme of resistance as the writers write against an exclusivist nationalism that was propagated through mass media and platforms of party politics in Sri Lanka during the war.The volume addresses crucial issues such as the fate of civilians in war, the role of religion in Sri Lankan polity, media censorship, the experience of women in war, as well as the current education system and youth problems in present day Sri Lanka. It highlights an alternate discourse that runs among the ethnic Sinhala group and contributes to the overall movement towards peace and reconciliation among the different ethnic communities in Sri Lanka.A unique addition to the growing oeuvre of translated Sinhala literature, the companion will be indispensable to students, scholars, and researchers of ethnic studies, war and peace studies, peace and conflict studies, literature, cultural studies, political sociology, and South Asian studies, particularly those interested in Sri Lankan literature.