Disputation i litteraturvetenskap
Alexander Kofod-Jensen försvarar sin doktorsavhandling i litteraturvetenskap, "A Rhetoric of Ambivalence: The Memory World of the Nazi Perpetrator in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones"
Doktorsavhandling Kofod-Jensen 2022:28
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International scholarly interest in fictional depictions of the Nazi perpetrator has been on the rise during the first decades of the 2000s. In this regard, the American author Jonathan Littell’s novel The Kindly Ones (2009), originally published 2006 in French as Les Bienveillantes, holds a center position because of how the Holocaust has been transmuted into fictional form in a fashion that both fascinates and offends readers. The present dissertation argues that ambivalence can be the key to not just comprehend the rhetoric and the intradiegetic workings of this complex and multi-faceted novel, but also to understand the author’s attitude towards his writings and the conflicted critical discourse surrounding it. To make the rhetoric of ambivalence of The Kindly Ones conceivable in analytical terms, the concept of memory world is developed from theories of fiction, narratology, character studies, and memory studies. Within this framework, Alexander Kofod-Jensen explores the tensions created when a comprehension of modernity as the attempted eradication of ambivalence is brought together with a baroque play of aesthetics and provocative aspects of transgression and excess.
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Medverkande
- Jonas Ingvarsson, opponent, docent, Göteborgs universitet
- Anna Smedberg Bondesson, betygsnämnd, docent och biträdande professor, Högskolan i Kristianstad
- Anders Johansson, betygsnämnd, docent, Mittuniversitetet
- Margareta Wallin Wictorin, betygsnämnd, docent, Karlstads universitet
Upplysningar
- Denita Gustavsson
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