Nykyaikaista aineistonkäsittelyä, painoväriä, erikoiskirjastoja : alkulehtiä Kari Aronpuron kollaasiromaanin uusiin tulkintoihin

Voces Intimae: Electro-Erotic Speech in Nicholson Baker's Vox

(2004). Voces Intimae: Electro-Erotic Speech in Nicholson Baker's Vox. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction: Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 99-114.

Blocks to, and building blocks of, narrativity: Fragments, anecdotes, and narrative lines in David Markson’sReader’s block

AbstractDavid Markson’sReader’s block(1996) consists of 193 pages of quotations, anecdotes, names, and fragments. The book bears the paratext “A novel,” and the work has indeed been read as a narrative whole, in which “an aging author [...] contemplates the writing of a novel.” By being out of ordinary and therefore worth of telling, the anecdotes or curiosities seemingly fulfill the requirements of a “natural” narrative as defined by Monika Fludernik (1996). However, a mass of such mini-narratives, mixed with even more fragmentary texts, seems to defy narrativity (and tellability). In my reading, the ostensive block to narrativity also functions as its very building block. Thanks to polyse…

Kirjallisuustiede käänteiden käänteissä

Jyväskylän yliopiston kirjallisuudentutkimus yhdistää monialaisesti esteettisen ja poliittisen

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Hearing Voices in Dreams: Freud's Tossing and Turning with Speech and Writing

In The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud repeatedly claims that there is no original speech in dreams. All dreamed speech is lifted from waking life and used as mutable raw material, whereas thought and writing can occur independently of the dream-work. This article examines Freud's insistence of the unoriginality and mutability of speech, which ostensibly reverses the supposed phonocentric tradition of Western metaphysics. Freud's interpretations, the article suggests, point to the importance of a general linguistic system in the production of meaning in dreams. This system includes non-phonetic writing and the concretization of abstract dream-thoughts into visual images. This concretization…

Ääniteknologiat ja kirjallisuus

Single, Long-Playing, and Compilation: The Formats of Audio and Amorousness in Nick Hornby'sHigh Fidelity

(2005). Single, Long-Playing, and Compilation: The Formats of Audio and Amorousness in Nick Hornby's High Fidelity. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction: Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 3-21.