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Forgery as a Pre-Romantic Trope: Iolo Morganwg 1747-1826 - Norwegian extended Masters thesis, University of Oslo (Department of General and Comparative Literature).A Poetics of the Border: Nation and genre in Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd and other texts by Islwyn Ffowc Elis
Dr. Art. dissertation, University of Oslo.
Blockage and dissolution: "Fantasy" and "Science Fiction" in the Decade of the Imagination - on fantastic literature in Norway in the 1980s, for the Norwegian Literary Yearbook.Om Macphersons Ossian-syklus
On Macpherson's Ossian Cycle.The "Lyric Pastoral": A Natural Genre (with an introduction to a debate between Genette and Derrida)
On Iolo Morganwg's use of the term "lyric pastoral". Also published in Welsh as "'Y Fugeilgerdd Delynegol': Genre Naturiol? / gan gynnwys cyflwyniad i ddadl rhwng Genette a Derrida", Y Traethodydd Ionawr 1994.Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd - unwaith eto
A Week in Future Wales: Once Again - on Islwyn Ffowc Elis' Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd (A Week in Future Wales). Also published in English as "The Future on Repeat", Skrift:Skriftserie for litteraturvitenskap ved Universitetet i Oslo 14 (1995): 40-48.Arnold Böcklin døde i Italia
Arnold Böcklin died in Italy - on travel, death, painting and narrative.Cultural and Political Nationalism in Wales
Crying like Throwing Up: Abjection and Resistance
in Caradog Prichard's Un Nos Ola Leuad
Postcolonialism and Cultural Resistance. Eds. Jopi Nyman and
John A. Stotesbury. Joensuu: Joenssun ylipiston humanistinen tiedekunta
/ Faculty of Humanities, University of Joensuu, 1999. 205-214. Orderable
from Joensuu
University Library.
Singing "Che Gelida Manina" in Welsh: Internal
and External Cultural Translation in the Future Wales of Islwyn Ffowc Elis
Interlitteraria 5 (2000): 365-374. Orderable from Tartu
University Press.
Den halverende horisonten: Postkolonialisme ufra Ingeborg
Bachmann og Derek Walcott
Vagant 3/4 (2000):
49-59.
The halving horizon – Derek Walcott’s "Names" and postcolonial mimicry – with a discussion of coastal borders, post-colonial Europe and Ingeborg Bachmann’s "Böhmen liegt am Meer".
Den
litterære grensen: Knut Hamsuns "Dronningen af Saba"
Att forska om gränser. Ed. José L. Ramírez. Stockholm:
Nordregio, 2001. 141-170.
The literary border: Knut Hamsuns "Dronningen af Saba"[The Queen of Saba]. A border analysis of Hamsuns short narrative; a contibution to an interdisciplinary symposium on borders.
Jean Genet og den europeiske grensen
Litteratur og erfaring. Eds. Ragnhild Reinton and Irene Iversen. Oslo:
Spartacus, 2001. 149-166.
Jean Genet's Journal du voleur and the European Border.
The Deperiodicized Patient: Ondaatje and the Contemporary
Identities and Masks: Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. Eds. Jakob Lothe,
Anne Holden Rønning and Robert Young. Kristiansand: HøyskoleForlaget,
2001. 125-141.
Identitetens
grenser: Om nasjonal identitet i litteraturen
Nordlit 10 (2001): 57-78.
The limits of identity. External and internal borders and the problem of the "horizon" in Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, with a reading of Honoré de Balzac’s Illusions perdues.
Ibsen l¾gger Haanden paa Brystet
Edda
4 (2001): 450-455.
review of Gudleiv B¿, ÒNationale subjekterÓ: Ideer om nasjonalitet i Henrik Ibsens romantiske forfatterskap (Oslo: Novus forlag, 2000) - ["National Subjects": Ideas on Nationality in Henrik Ibsen's Romantic Works]
Languages on the Margins of Europe: On Language Minorities in Great Britain - on Celtic languages and central power.Skår av Tenhovaara
Shards of Tenhovaara - on the contemporary Swedish author Mika Henry Tenhovaara.Samuel R. Delany intervjuet av Johan Schimanski
Samuel R. Delany interviewed by Johan Schimanski - an interview with the author and theorist Delany."The alien is always constructed of the familiar": litt.vit. studenten og Samuel Delany
"The alien is always constructed of the familiar": The Literary Studies Student and Samuel Delany - a presentation of a term-paper on Delany's Stars in My Pocket like Grains of SandJokeren og den siste tid
The Joker and the End of Time - on the analysis of art in the film Batman.Science Fiction som litteratur
Science Fiction as Literature - interviewed in connection with a feature on cyberpunk culture.Genre a chenedl
Genre and Nation - on Robin Llywelyn's Seren Wen ar Gefndir Gwyn (1993).Ingen fortelling. Om et kart
No story. About a Map - theory disguised as fiction.Wales og den post-moderne nasjonalismen
Wales and postmodern nationalism - an interview with the Welsh critic, editor and theorist Simon Brooks.Sannheten om en løgn
The Truth about a Lie - interviewed on literary forgeries.Kanon utenfra
Canon from the Outside - a contribution to a debate on the literary canonLitteraturens veiskilt
The Roadsigns of Literature - interviewed in connection with the doctoral dissertation.Forskjellenes fellesskap
The Community of Differences - interviewed in connection with the doctoral dissertation.Nasjon gir nasjonalisme
Nation means Nationalism - a comment on the use of the word "nationalism".Hen Wraig y Bala
The Old Woman from Y Bala - on gender, nation, and the death of the Welsh language in Elis, Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd.Vil du være kvinne igjen?
Do You Want to be a Woman Again? - a review of Sara Arrhenius, En ekte kvinne: En kritikk av den nye biologismen (A Real Woman: A Critique of the New Biologism), 1999
two seminar contributions as part of the extended Masters degree:
- on Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49Iolo Morganwg
- on Welsh metrics and poetic creativity
Iolo Morganwg (1747-1826): Modernity meets Tradition
IXth International Congress of Celtic Studies, Paris, July 1991.
Asimov som politikk
Aniara - the students' science fiction society, October 2, 1992.
Asimov as politics - a reading of Isaac Asimov's politics.a response to Morten Kyndrup's seminar contribution "En invitasjon: Fri adgang til utilgængeligheten. Om Paul Austers 'The Locked Room' "
A prepared comment on Kyndrup's "An Invitation: Free Access to the Inaccessible: On Paul Auster's ‘The Locked Room'"An Introduction to a Conversation with Andrew Benjamin
An open meditation on Walter Benjamin, translation between canonic and minority cultures, and the hapax legomenon.contribution on Adorno/Horkheimers "Elements of Anti-Semitism"
The Border Sign Flickers By: Croeso i Gymru
Research seminar "Textual Analysis: Transformation of Genre and World
Literature", Sostrup Slott (Danmark), November 1994.
A presentation of problems in the first chapter of the dissertation.Cultural and Political Nationalism in Wales
A Week in Future Wales
Cymdeithas Cymry Oslo/The Oslo Welsh Society, May 2, 1997.
A presentation of the dissertation and of experiences while working on it.Jean Genet and the European Border
Contemporary Literary Theory and Contemporary Fiction: The Example
of Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Test lecture on given theme for the Dr. Art. degree, May 23, 1997. Awaiting
publication, see above.
Walisisk science fiction
1) Aniara - the students' science fiction society, September 12, 1997;
2) Konfekt - Uppsala SF-möte IV (a science fiction convention), November
17-19, 1997.
Welsh science fiction.referee contribution on identity
guest of honour and participant in various panels
Konfekt - Uppsala SF-möte IV (a science fiction convention), November
17-19, 1997.
Crying like Throwing Up: Abjection and Resistance in Caradog Prichard's
Un
Nos Ola Leuad
Postcolonialism and Cultural Resistance
Seminar, Joensuu, May 15-16, 1998. Published in the proceedings, see above.
Iolo Morganwgs hybridgenrer og romantikkens marginalitet
Seminar "Marginale strømninger i tilknytning til romantikken",
Tromsø, October 23, 1998.
Iolo Morganwg's hybrid genres and the marginality of/in Romanticism.guest of honour and participant in various panels/happenings
Including an open conversation with Brian Stableford on the theory of science fiction.Smugling over litteraturens grenser: Canetti og grenseteorien i dag
Smuggling over the borders of literature: Veza Canetti's "Geduld bringt Rosen" and an allegorical surplus economy of borders.Singing "Che Gelida Manina" in Welsh: Internal and External Cultural Translation in the Future Wales of Islwyn Ffowc Elis
The necessity of (science) fiction to minority nationalist politics & the relevance of postwar international modernity to problems of globalization and cultural identity, exemplified by Islwyn Ffowc Elis' Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd.What Happens when ‘England’ becomes ‘Britain’ and Objects Become Subjects? Forms of Address used by the Literary Forger Iolo Morganwg.
The figure of the bard as one of the ideological underpinnings of the creation of English literature, mapped through intertextual relationships between Thomas Gray, Evan Evans , Thomas Jones (Pencerrig), and Iolo Morganwg.The Old Woman from Y Bala: Gendered Language Death in Nationalist Minority Discourse.
On gendered representations of the nation, and the death of the Welsh language in Elis, Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd (1957), with reference to Curnow Vosper's painting Salem (1908). Held in a co-operative zigzag with Ulrike Spring's paper "Mother Norig and Father Aasen: Constructing a National Family at the Turn of the Last Century".Island Horizons: Territorial/Textual Borders in Derek Walcott's "Names".
A comparison of Walcott's poem "Names" with Ingeborg Bachmann's poem "Böhmen liegt am Meer" reveals the potential function of the sea coast as a symbol of transnational identity involving oppositions between nature and culture.
Borders in the Fantastic and the Fantastic in (National) Borders.
International Comparative Literature Association conference (ICLA 2000), Pretoria,
13-19 August 2000.
Borders to a fantastic other and the fantastic border, with readings of Dannie Abse’s autobiographical fictions “The Pencil Box” and “Return Ticket to Cardiff” and discussion of Benedict Anderson and Tzvetan Todorov.
Når er en 1700-tallstekst ikke en 1700-tallstekst? Litterære
falsknerier som et produkt av 1700-tallet.
Norwegian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies AGM, Trondheim, 27 October
2000.
When is an Eighteenth-Century text not an Eighteenth-Century Text? Literary forgeries as a product of the Eighteenth Century. Iolo Morganwg.
Identitetens grenser.
Identity – Interdisciplinary Seminar, Tromsø, 29 November - 1 December
2000. In preperation for publication in the proceedings, see above.
The limits of identity. External and internal borders and the problem of the "horizon" in Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, with a reading of Honoré de Balzac’s Illusions perdues.
Den litterære grensen
Researching borders, Nordregio, Stockholm, 5-6 May 2001. Held in connection
with the article "Den litterære grensen: Knut Hamsuns 'Dronningen
af Saba'", see above.
The literary border: A summary of the methodological basis of border readings.
on cyberpunk and the future
Christopher Grøndahl, ACEM Radio, April 17, 1993; ca. 20 min.
on Wales and Europa
Sveriges Radio (Swedish State Broadcasting), December 1994.
on literary forgeries
Erik Tunstad, NRK (Norwegian State Broadcasting) P2 "Herfra til halvti",December
1995.
Irene Iversen: "Henrik Ibsen and the Norwegian Modern Breakthrough"
Lecture, Hanoi, December 1993.
Leif Mæhle: "Kristofer Uppdal: Aksel Waldemar Johannessen's
poet friend"
Garborg Ibsen Johannessen Munch Uppdal: A Contribution to the Ibsen
Conference 1997. Ed. Ferruccio Delle Cave and Haakon Mehren. Vienna:
Folio, 1997. 87-90.
Jan Knutzen: The Camera Museum
Short film script (Kameramuseet), June 1997.
Bale, Kjersti: "The Confused Court as the Model of Allegory: On Allegorical
Reading in Walter Benjamin's Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels"
Walter Benjamin: Language, Literature, History. Ed. Ragnhild E. Reinton
and Dag T. Andersson. Oslo: Solum, 2000. 86-110.
Reinton, Ragnhild Evang: "Writing: The Fruit or the Grave of Thought?
On Writing and Reading in Walter Benjamin"
Walter Benjamin: Language, Literature, History. Ed. Ragnhild E. Reinton
and Dag T. Andersson. Oslo: Solum, 2000. 86-110.
Jan Knutzen: Fragments from Norway
Short film script (Fragmente aus Norwegen), May 2001.
Drude von der Fehr: "John Dewey and Experience"
Awaiting publication.
Souvenir books for science fiction conventions.
Large amounts of commentary, reviews, editorial material and journalism for underground & science fiction related publications in Norway, Sweden, England, The Netherlands, and the USA.