Et spørgsmål om legitimitet
Om nogle aktuelle tendenser i dansk litteraturhistorieforskning
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Litteraturhistorie, Litteraturhistorieforskning, danskResumé
Taking its point of departure in a supposition that literary history teaching and writing in Denmark is in a state of crisis, this article aims to demonstrate that this is not the case for current literary history research. According to Sascha Bru, Ben de Bryun and Michel Delville, literary history is »one of the main sites of theoretical and methodological reflection in literary studies« today. The thesis of the article is that also Danish literary historical scholarship is subject to a rich diversity of experiments presently, and it maps five overall tendencies as indications of this revitalization, drawing on a wide range of examples, published 2014 onwards: 1. Regionalism, concerning the framework of literary history research; 2. Identity politics, concerning its agenda; 3. An opening towards cultural history, concerning its subject-matter; 4. Literary historiographical reflexivity, concerning its theoretical and methodological foundation; 5. International orientation, concerning the perspective of literary history research. A central concern of the article is legitimation. A possible understanding of this current revitalization is an encounter in literary historical scholarship with what Andreas Wimmer and Nina Glick Schiller terms the »methological nationalism« that formerly constituted an important ideological basis for the legitimation of it. This encounter can have caused an opportunity and a need for literary history research to seek legitimation elsewhere; by speaking identity politically on behalf of minorities, by dealing with non-canonized literary works, by discussing them in relation to other aesthetic and cultural practices and in new social contexts, and by approaching literary history from new theoretical and methodological perspectives.
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