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Byron´s Corsair and the Boundaries of Sympathy
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-02)Contemporary reviewers of Byron’s work often noted his skill in cultivating sympathy for outlaw figures – a skill that was admired, but also worried over since it implied sympathy’s independence from a moral code. Recent scholarship about sympathy in the Romantic period has not focused much on Byron, but this essay highlights acomplexity and originality in his invocation of sympathy that has been ... -
Eco-Phenomenology in the Dark
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)This chapter uses the methods and insights of phenomenology– especially Maurice Merleau- Ponty’s chiasmus and Jean- Luc Marion’s saturated phenomenality– to articulate the symbiosis between the human subject and the natural world. By conceptualizing the human subject as felt as well as feeling (Merleau- Ponty), and as receiving experiences that overwhelm our conceptual apparatus (Marion), these ... -
Essentially the Greatest Poem: Teaching New Ways of Reading American Literature
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-18)This essay arose from a debate held at the 2018 American Studies Association of Norway (ASANOR) about the value of teaching American Literature and Culture survey courses at Norwegian universities. My role, as ASANOR’s president, was to facilitate the debate and offer a response. In the extended version of that response published here, I accept the critique of national survey courses as tending ... -
Frankenstein at 200: Introduction
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018)Derek Attridge says of James Joyce that one can never be a first-time reader of that authors work.1 The same can be said of Mary Shelley, particularly with regard to her first novel, Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus. There cannot be many readers who come to it without prior ideas of what to expect. Images of the creature pervade popular culture, and most English readers know Victors tale of ... -
Frankenstein's Reader as Judge and Confidant
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-12)This article examines the tension between two modes of listening presented in <i>Frankenstein</i>. Characters sometimes receive others’ stories as a confidant responsible to the storyteller and sometimes as a judge responsible to a predetermined ethical norm. Drawing on the ideas of Emmanuel Lévinas, the article shows how these two forms of listening correspond to two ethical models – the ethics ... -
Frankenstein´s Reader as Judge or Confidant
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Imaginary Landscapes: Sublime and Saturated Phenomena in "Kubla Khan" and the Arab Dream
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-08-06)This article considers “Kubla Khan” and the the Arab dream section from the fifth book <i>The Prelude</i> as precursors to the recently theorized concept of saturated phenomenality. Both Coleridge and Wordsworth insist on the limitedness of their dream subjects even as they magnify their dreamt of landscapes to heights of sublimity. Falke describes the implications that this insistence on smallness ... -
Interpreting Violence, Violent Interpretations: Introduction
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)This chapter introduces the key terms of the edited volume: violence, interpretation, narrative, hermeneutics, and ethics. It articulates how interpreting violence refers both to the process of meaning-making involved in understanding representations of violence and to the potential violence involved in interpretive acts themselves. Drawing on the distinction between understanding and explanation, ... -
The Language of All Nations: Defining the Human Rights Novel
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Reader as Witness: First-Person Perpetrators of Political Violence in Contemporary Literature
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-08-16)Twenty-first century novels increasingly portray twentieth-century histories of violence in a way that implicates readers: as keepers of public memory, as complicit in ongoing political violence, and even as potential perpetrators. These novels target a global readership and treat the recollections of past atrocities and the prevention of future ones as a global responsibility. This essay describes ... -
The Sublime in American Romanticism
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)This chapter examines the influence of William Bartram´s <i>Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida</i> on the writing of Wordsworth and Coleridge in the 1790s and highlights the uniqueness of Bartram´s eco-centric approach to sublimity in early American thinking about the natural world. A practiced botanist and natural illustrator, Bartram delights in cataloguing ... -
"Wandering in Fact and Fiction: Wordsworth´s Wanderer and Christopher Thomson"
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2018)Discussing Wordsworth’s poem “Goody Blake and Harry Gill,” Geoffrey Tillotson writes that “Goody herself . . . could not have given a more telling account of her way of life” (7). I wonder. Goody Blake, like other cottagers, had ample time to think, spinning days away in a house by herself. She may have participated more fully in the life of her community than Wordsworth did and therefore been able ... -
Witnessing Extremity in Violent Narratives in Literature and Humanitarian Discourse
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)Beginning with Heidegger´s definition of violence as that which exceeds and reformulates normality, this essay questions how violence can be ethically represented and interpreted. In their ability to establish norms and then carry us beyond the bounds of the familiar, novels are uniquely suited to represent violence as norm-shattering. Contrasting tendencies in contemporary novels representing ...
