Books by Frederike Felcht
Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2020
Mit Skandinavien assoziieren heute die meisten Menschen eine wohlhabende Weltregion, die vorbildl... more Mit Skandinavien assoziieren heute die meisten Menschen eine wohlhabende Weltregion, die vorbildliche soziale Sicherungssysteme hat. Dieses Buch erzählt davon, dass dieser Wohlstand jedoch mühsam errungen werden musste und historisch relativ jung ist.
Literarische Darstellungen armutsbedingten Hungers geben Aufschluss über skandinavische Konstruktionen von Identität und deren Wandel. Die Vorstellung von einer im Hunger geeinten Nation wich einer Kritik gesellschaftlicher Ungleichheit, die zu neuen politischen Idealbildern führte. Hunger erweist sich darüber hinaus als poetologisch produktives Thema und Motiv.
Die Studie untersucht Repräsentationen von Hunger in einflussreichen und bekannten Texten der skandinavischen Literatur, z. B. den Nationalhymnen Finnlands und Norwegens, Knut Hamsuns ‚Sult‘ (‚Hunger‘, 1890), Martin Andersen Nexøs ‚Pelle Erobreren‘ (‚Pelle der Eroberer‘, 1906–1910) oder Vilhelm Mobergs Auswanderer-Tetralogie (1949–1959), und setzt diese in Beziehung zu ihren historisch-diskursiven Kontexten.
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Leipzig: Spector Books, 2019
Under the influence of migration and financial crises, we are experiencing a renaissance of ratio... more Under the influence of migration and financial crises, we are experiencing a renaissance of rationing—the limited dispensation of goods and services that are not paid for with money. In Germany too the “refugee crisis” has put “cashless billing” (vouchers or food packages) back on the agenda. This has occasioned a theoretical review of the principles and problems associated with this form of distribution. Rationing, with all its fantasies of planning and control, has a life of its own that is making a comeback and has largely escaped our attention. It has been used not only in state socialism but also in the creation of Israel and Cuba; in the war economies of Austria and Denmark; in the Soviet gulag and in the Argentinian financial crisis; in disaster relief, in Jordanian refugee camps, and in the reception centres for asylum seekers.
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Edited Journal Issue by Frederike Felcht
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he contributions contained in this volume address ways in which scarcity (and abundance) have bee... more he contributions contained in this volume address ways in which scarcity (and abundance) have been represented aesthetically and exploited politically in very different contexts, from literary texts to computer games, and from Enlightenment visions of plenty to colonial justifications for famine. The range of examples shown here give some idea of the productivity of “scarcity” as a concept, and the many forms it can take in influencing and absorbing human ideas about our ways of inhabiting the world.
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Papers by Frederike Felcht
Under the influence of migration and financial crises, we are experiencing a renaissance of ratio... more Under the influence of migration and financial crises, we are experiencing a renaissance of rationing—the limited dispensation of goods and services that are not paid for with money. In Germany too the “refugee crisis” has put “cashless billing” (vouchers or food packages) back on the agenda. This has occasioned a theoretical review of the principles and problems associated with this form of distribution. Rationing, with all its fantasies of planning and control, has a life of its own that is making a comeback and has largely escaped our attention. It has been used not only in state socialism but also in the creation of Israel and Cuba; in the war economies of Austria and Denmark; in the Soviet gulag and in the Argentinian financial crisis; in disaster relief, in Jordanian refugee camps, and in the reception centres for asylum seekers.
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NORDEUROPAforum, 2023
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NORDEUROPAforum, 2023
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Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendbuchforschung, 2022
Biodiversity and Nature Conservation in The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1906/1907)
In 1901, the... more Biodiversity and Nature Conservation in The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1906/1907)
In 1901, the progressive educator Alfred Dalin, on behalf of the Swedish Primary School Teachers Association, asked the former teacher and popular author Selma Lagerlöf to create a new geography textbook. They had an anthology of texts in mind, but Lagerlöf insisted on writing a new work instead. The story of Nils Holgersson, who travels through Sweden on the back of a goose, is the famous result. Based on approaches from
ecocriticism as well as cultural and literary animal studies, this article examines the relationship between the textbook and environmental discourse around 1900. It postulates that biological and aesthetic diversity in The Wonderful Adventures of Nils form a unit in the textbook, a unit that corresponds to ecological thinking around 1900. The text-
book contains a variety of voices; it transgresses genres and has a complex linguistic and narrative structure. Its original combination of fact and fiction makes it possible to relate these formal features to reflections on biological diversity in the book itself and in environmental discourse around 1900.
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Transit – 'Norden' och 'Europa', 2019
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Hanna Eglinger (Hg.): Literarische Irrtümer. Figurationen des Irrtums in der skandinavischen Literatur, Baden-Baden: Rombach 2020, 133–148., 2020
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Jens Bjerring-Hansen/Torben Jelsbak/Anna Estera Mrozewicz (Hg.): Scandinavian Exceptionalisms. Culture, Society, Discourse (Berliner Beiträge zur Skandinavistik), Berlin: Nordeuropa-Institut 2021, 79–100., 2021
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Eva Marie Syversen/Ole Karlsen (Hg.): Stjerner over granskogbunnen. Om Ingeborg Refling hagens forfatterskap, Oslo: Novus 2022, 17–37., 2022
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Sociologia Y Tecnociencia Revista Digital De Sociologia Del Sistema Tecnocientifico, Sep 1, 2013
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European Journal of Scandinavian Studies
Torgrim Eggen’s Hilal (1995) is an early example of literature on the subject of Islam in Norway ... more Torgrim Eggen’s Hilal (1995) is an early example of literature on the subject of Islam in Norway in its global contexts. As a romantic love story with elements of an action thriller and science fiction in form of future technological inventions, the novel combines an intense reading experience with thought provoking reflections on the role of religion and religious conflicts in secular societies. Based on Almuth Hammer’s ideas on the relationship between religion and literature as well as Jan Assmann’s theses on functions of oral and written language in religions, my essay analyzes the representation of Islam in Hilal and shows parallels between the structure of love and faith in the novel.
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Spezies Mensch. Theorien der Menschheit in Biopolitik und Anthropozän, in: Hannes Bajohr (Hg.): Der Anthropos im Anthropozän. Die Wiederkehr des Menschen im Moment ner vermein tlich endgültigen Verabschiedung. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2020
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Anne Klara Bom/Jacob Bøggild/Johs. Nørregaard Frandsen (eds.): Hans Christian Andersen and Community, 2019
This article explores representations of toys in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales, focusing ... more This article explores representations of toys in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales, focusing on “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” from 1838. It presents several interpretations from recent research that deal with the relationship between subjectivity and material culture and thus underlines the complexity of Andersen’s texts. Furthermore, it argues that “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” subverts the notion of the sheltered bourgeois childhood that dominated the nineteenth century, by revealing how the text deals with problems related to militarism, capitalism, and patriarchism. The fairy tale also criticizes a lack of community that the lonely main character experiences. Yet Andersen’s fairy tales show, on the other hand, the interrelatedness of human and non-human beings – a community of modern material culture.
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Frank Estelmann/Stefffen Bründel (eds.): Disasters of War and Violence: Perceptions and Representations, from 1914 to the present, 2019
Co-Author: Anja Peltzer; translated by Cecilia Sebastian
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This chapter investigates representations of hunger in Karl August Tavaststjerna’s Hårda tider (H... more This chapter investigates representations of hunger in Karl August Tavaststjerna’s Hårda tider (Hard Times, 1891). The analysis of these representations reveals changes in the concept of nature at the end of the nineteenth century. These changes become visible when contrasting Tavaststjerna’s novel, which tends towards Naturalism, with Johan Ludvig Runeberg’s writings and their leaning towards Idealism. In my reading of it, Tavaststjerna’s text naturalizes human behavior and denaturalizes the famine it depicts.
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This contribution discusses Knut Hamsun's Sult (1890) from a transnational perspective, referring... more This contribution discusses Knut Hamsun's Sult (1890) from a transnational perspective, referring to the history of hunger and the depiction of hunger in French Naturalism. It takes Timothy Wientzen's (2015) argument about the politics of hunger in Sult as the starting point
for a critical discussion, and reflects on the relationship between hunger strikes and political collectives. Furthermore, it points to parallels between Sult and Zola's Le ventre de Paris (1873) in the problematization of political organization and, finally, compares the narrative structures of both texts.
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Literarische Darstellungen armutsbedingten Hungers geben Aufschluss über skandinavische Konstruktionen von Identität und deren Wandel. Die Vorstellung von einer im Hunger geeinten Nation wich einer Kritik gesellschaftlicher Ungleichheit, die zu neuen politischen Idealbildern führte. Hunger erweist sich darüber hinaus als poetologisch produktives Thema und Motiv.
Die Studie untersucht Repräsentationen von Hunger in einflussreichen und bekannten Texten der skandinavischen Literatur, z. B. den Nationalhymnen Finnlands und Norwegens, Knut Hamsuns ‚Sult‘ (‚Hunger‘, 1890), Martin Andersen Nexøs ‚Pelle Erobreren‘ (‚Pelle der Eroberer‘, 1906–1910) oder Vilhelm Mobergs Auswanderer-Tetralogie (1949–1959), und setzt diese in Beziehung zu ihren historisch-diskursiven Kontexten.
Edited Journal Issue by Frederike Felcht
Papers by Frederike Felcht
In 1901, the progressive educator Alfred Dalin, on behalf of the Swedish Primary School Teachers Association, asked the former teacher and popular author Selma Lagerlöf to create a new geography textbook. They had an anthology of texts in mind, but Lagerlöf insisted on writing a new work instead. The story of Nils Holgersson, who travels through Sweden on the back of a goose, is the famous result. Based on approaches from
ecocriticism as well as cultural and literary animal studies, this article examines the relationship between the textbook and environmental discourse around 1900. It postulates that biological and aesthetic diversity in The Wonderful Adventures of Nils form a unit in the textbook, a unit that corresponds to ecological thinking around 1900. The text-
book contains a variety of voices; it transgresses genres and has a complex linguistic and narrative structure. Its original combination of fact and fiction makes it possible to relate these formal features to reflections on biological diversity in the book itself and in environmental discourse around 1900.
for a critical discussion, and reflects on the relationship between hunger strikes and political collectives. Furthermore, it points to parallels between Sult and Zola's Le ventre de Paris (1873) in the problematization of political organization and, finally, compares the narrative structures of both texts.
Literarische Darstellungen armutsbedingten Hungers geben Aufschluss über skandinavische Konstruktionen von Identität und deren Wandel. Die Vorstellung von einer im Hunger geeinten Nation wich einer Kritik gesellschaftlicher Ungleichheit, die zu neuen politischen Idealbildern führte. Hunger erweist sich darüber hinaus als poetologisch produktives Thema und Motiv.
Die Studie untersucht Repräsentationen von Hunger in einflussreichen und bekannten Texten der skandinavischen Literatur, z. B. den Nationalhymnen Finnlands und Norwegens, Knut Hamsuns ‚Sult‘ (‚Hunger‘, 1890), Martin Andersen Nexøs ‚Pelle Erobreren‘ (‚Pelle der Eroberer‘, 1906–1910) oder Vilhelm Mobergs Auswanderer-Tetralogie (1949–1959), und setzt diese in Beziehung zu ihren historisch-diskursiven Kontexten.
In 1901, the progressive educator Alfred Dalin, on behalf of the Swedish Primary School Teachers Association, asked the former teacher and popular author Selma Lagerlöf to create a new geography textbook. They had an anthology of texts in mind, but Lagerlöf insisted on writing a new work instead. The story of Nils Holgersson, who travels through Sweden on the back of a goose, is the famous result. Based on approaches from
ecocriticism as well as cultural and literary animal studies, this article examines the relationship between the textbook and environmental discourse around 1900. It postulates that biological and aesthetic diversity in The Wonderful Adventures of Nils form a unit in the textbook, a unit that corresponds to ecological thinking around 1900. The text-
book contains a variety of voices; it transgresses genres and has a complex linguistic and narrative structure. Its original combination of fact and fiction makes it possible to relate these formal features to reflections on biological diversity in the book itself and in environmental discourse around 1900.
for a critical discussion, and reflects on the relationship between hunger strikes and political collectives. Furthermore, it points to parallels between Sult and Zola's Le ventre de Paris (1873) in the problematization of political organization and, finally, compares the narrative structures of both texts.
The contribution delves into the history of the term »biopolitics« and explains main features of the concept,focusing on the ›government of life‹. An exemplary reading of August Strindberg’s I havsbandet (»By the Open Sea«, 1890) illuminates the potentials of biopolitical perspectives on literary texts. Strindberg’s novel negotiates the possibilities and boundaries of the government of life in particular, including the government of individuals as well as the government of collectives. In this context, sex or sexuality plays an important role.