Karin Kukkonen: "Literary Games, Poetics and Storyworlds of the Early-Modern Novel"
- Datum: 30 maj 2024, kl. 14.15–16.00
- Plats: Engelska parken, 6-0023 (Daniusrummet)
- Typ: Seminarium
- Arrangör: Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och retorik och Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi
- Kontaktperson: Paula Henrikson, Ingela Nilsson
Samseminarium mellan de högre seminarierna i litteraturvetenskap, grekiska studier och engelsk litteratur samt romanska seminariet.
Forskningspresentation av Karin Kukkonen, Universitetet i Oslo.
Abstract:
In the salons of seventeenth-century France, novelists played literary games, improvising narration, finding new rhymes for well-known sonnets or imagining an exchange of letters. A playful approach to literature was more than just a metaphor for these novelists. Rather, I propose, they used literary games to explore what the novel could be at this early point in the genre’s development. In this talk, I will discuss Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de la Force’s Les jeux d’esprit (1701) in terms of a proto-poetics for the novel. La Force was well-known as a best-selling author of historical novels in her day, but she is also one of the pioneers of the fairy tale. Literary games, I suggest, enable what Kendall Walton calls «games of make-belief» and provide the basis for La Force’s reflections around history, fiction and the creation of fictional worlds.
Seminariet följs av ett postseminarium i rum 6-0015 (lunchrummet). I samband med detta kommer vi att kort presentera och fira två nyutgivna böcker: Ingela Nilssons svenska översättning av den antika grekiska romanen Leukippe & Kleitofon (2024) och Ellen Söderblom Saarelas Can an object love? A philological essay on female subjectivity (2023).