Intertextualitat Und Intermedialitat Am Beispiel Von Stellan Morners Novellen

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Skandinavistik, Note: 1,3, Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin (Nordeuropa-Institut), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In the recent decades, aspects of intertextuality and intermediality have become of increasing
interest to literary criticism and cultural studies. This has engendered a closer look at artists,
whose works cover multiple disciplines or media, and refer to works from literature to visual
arts.
This for instance applies to the work of Stellan Mrner, who as a member of the Halmstad
Group, has mainly been thought of as a painter so far. Though he is the author of two
surrealistic novels. Both of them, Timmarna innan (1948) and Resa med flaggstng (1956),
imply aspects of intertextuality and intermediality. This perfectly describes the main focus of
the present thesis.
Here, two analyses will try to answer the following question: What is the purpose for the
surrealist Stellan Mrner in using intertextuality and intermediality in his novels and how
does it help him develop his poetics? In this context it is important to point out that he
distanced himself from Breton's approach of Automatic writing. In fact he adopted the
Paranoiac-critical method Dal exposed in his theories.
Since the novels enclose autobiographical tendencies, Mrner establishes a relationship
between his biography and his intertextual and intermedial works. Thus the assumption
derives, that his poetics not only push the boundary of text and context, but also that of the
artist's works and his biography.