Mærkelig planet, mærkelig litteraturhistorie

Sebastian Egholm Lund

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Mærkelig planet, mærkelig litteraturhistorie

Sebastian Egholm Lund

School of Communication and Culture - Department of Comparative Literature and Rhetoric

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Abstract

The planet has recently become a popular figure for the study of literary history, comparatists having spent recent years speculating on global or planetary space. However, this work has not adequately addressed the issue of how to planetarize our understanding of time, that is, literary history. My paper addresses this issue by harnessing the weirdness of the planet to defamiliarize our conceived understandings of literary history. I argue that, to counter progressivist, modernist narratives of eternal growth, it is necessary to overwrite a notion of literary history as a horizontal line divided into neat periods with a vision of literary history as a cobweb, the literary historian spinning together past and present to make them weird again.

Original language	Danish
Journal	Passage
Volume	38
Issue	90
Pages (from-to)	37-50
ISSN	0901-8883
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7146/pas.v38i90.143030
Publication status	Published - Jan 2024

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Fictions of Climate at the Fin de Siècle
Egholm Lund, S. (PI)
01/09/2021 → 28/05/2024
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Planeten
Frank, S. (Editor), Egholm Lund, S. (Editor), Ørtoft Rasmussen, S. (Editor) & Skiveren, T. (Editor), Jan 2024, Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 136 p. (Passage; No. 90, Vol. 38).
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The Nineteenth Century Today: Interdisciplinary, International, Intertemporal
Egholm Lund, S. (Speaker)
10 Jul 2024 → 12 Jul 2024
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Mærkelig planet, mærkelig litteraturhistorie

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