<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> 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. </p></abstract>

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.

Post-Medium Literature? Two Examples of Contemporary Scandinavian

Linnæus University, Växjö Department of Film and Literature

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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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...

Post-Medium Literature? Two Examples of Contemporary Scandinavian

Published Online: May 30, 2014

Page range: 79 - 94

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2014-0007

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

© 2014

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Post-Medium Literature? Two Examples of Contemporary Scandinavian

Published Online: May 30, 2014

Page range: 79 - 94

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2014-0007

KeywordsIntermediality, post-medium. Rosalind Krauss, Abo Rasul/Matias Faldbakken. Ursula Andkjaer Olsen

© 2014

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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