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dc.contributor.authorStranda, Sigurd
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-29T15:18:24Z
dc.date.available2025-01-29T15:18:24Z
dc.date.issued2024-12-12
dc.description.abstractI Laila Stiens novelle «Markblomster» beretter novellens forteller historien om sin bror og hans kjærlighetsforhold til Alice, ei byjente som ender med å ta sitt eget liv ved å kjøre bilen deres på havet. Artikkelen analyserer novellen med spesielt blikk for hvordan novellens forteller anvender strategier for å ta kontroll over selvmordsnarrativet og aktivt undertrykker den dødes perspektiv. Dette settes inn i den bredere tendensen til å ikle selvmordsfortellinger i stillhetsmetaforer. Videre leses dette som et utslag av det Peter Wessel Zapffe i Om det tragiske (1941) kaller fortielse, altså opprettholdelsen av den gode tone for å ivareta det han kaller det autoteliske håp. Via Zapffes tragedieteori argumenterer jeg at novellens tragiske potensiale ikke lar seg begrense til det individuelle selvmordet, men også, gjennom fortellerens narrative strategier, at den avdekker et menneskelig behov for å fortie eksistensens tragiske sider som sådan.en_US
dc.description.abstractIn Laila Stien’s short story «Markblomster», the narrator recounts the story of her brother and his relationship to Alice, a city girl who ends up taking her own life by driving their car into the ocean. This article analyses the short story with particular focus on how the narrator uses strategies to take control over the suicide narrative, and actively suppresses the perspective of the deceased. This control method is examined within the broader tendency to frame suicide narratives in metaphors of silence. Furthermore, this is interpreted as an expression of what Peter Wessel Zapffe, in On the Tragic (1941), calls suppression, i.e. maintaining decorum to preserve what he terms the autotelic hope. Via Zapffe’s theory of tragedy, I argue that the tragic potential of the short story cannot be limited to the individual suicide but also, through the narrator’s narrative strategies, reveals a human need to suppress the tragic aspects of existence as such.en_US
dc.identifier.citationstranda. "It was a powerful little creature". Nordlit. 2024en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2346711
dc.identifier.doi10.7557/13.7856
dc.identifier.issn0809-1668
dc.identifier.issn1503-2086
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/36362
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSeptentrio Academic Publishingen_US
dc.relation.journalNordlit
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2024 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.title.alternative"It was a powerful little creature"en_US
dc.title«Det var krefter i det der lille vesenet». Om tale, taushet og fortielse i Laila Stiens novelle «Markblomster»en_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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