1) Creative distortion. Mimicking the vernacular in Scandinavian Sound Poetry. 2) The Voice of Mercury in Early European Press
This is the third seminar/workshop dedicated to our Komplitt publication project "The Echo Chamber of Reading: Comparative Literature and Culture Resonance". For a detailed description of the two papers, please click on the 'Documents' below.
Speakers
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Karin Nykvist
Lund University, Centre for Languages and Literature (SOL)When I decided to pursue a career in comparative literature I knew that I wanted to do research as well as teaching. That is also how things have turned out, and I find that the combination of the two is very rewarding. At present, I divide my time between teaching, writing a book on the construction of childhood in Swedish literature and teaching. I find all aspects of my work inspiring and challenging, and my main problem is that I want to be everywhere at once.
I wrote my doctoral thesis on the metapoetic strategies of Swedish contemporary poet Jesper Svenbro. Later, I have returned to the question of metapoetry in various articles. I have also studied the notion of mimesis from different perspectives.
In my spare time I work as a literary critic, a great occupation as I am what T.S Eliot called a historical provincialist: I enjoy reading newly published literature and keeping up with the new - good as well as bad.
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Erik Zillén
Lund University, Centre for Languages and Literature (SOL)Kunskap, dialog och förståelse är nyckelbegrepp för mig som akademisk lärare. Att undervisa i litteraturvetenskap är att resa i grupp genom tider, tankar, texter – en praktiserad humanism. Som forskare har jag specialstuderat Gustaf Frödings författarskap och fabelns svenska och europeiska historia. De frågor jag ställer öppnar sig mot olika sfärer inom ämnet: litteratur som språkspel, genreproblematik, intertextualitet, litteratur och normer, receptionshistoria, gränssnittet djur/människa i litteraturen etc.
Tidigare har jag arbetat som bland annat svensk lektor vid Uniwersytet Jagielloński i Kraków, gästforskare vid Ludwig-Maximilians Universität i München och forskarassistent vid Stockholms universitet. Till mina vetenskapliga nätverk hör det tvärvetenskapliga 1700-talsseminariet i Uppsala, Barockakademien i Stockholm och Tidigmoderna seminariet i Göteborg samt International Reynard Society, som till sina konferenser samlar fabelforskare från i stort sett hela världen.