Avhandlingen som kritisk praktik

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Abstract

The Dissertation as Critical Practice: Other Forms, Other Media

This article (a talk presented at Lund University on October 12, 2012) explores linguistic and rhetorical form, and formal operations, in academic studies in comparative literature – and their relationship to form in poetry and fiction writing. The article also discusses how an awareness and exploration of academic language and formalistic decisions contributes to the academic text. Some examples (by Charles Bernstein and Christian Bök) of such an understanding of the critic’s language are discussed, and, eventually, the question of how new media and, more specifically, digital text can transform the language and form of academic literary studies is addressed through a brief look at the important online journal Vectors.