Knausenstein's monster. portraits of the author in a post-anthropocentric mirror. Issue 1 (2nd January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Haarder, Jon Helt
• Is Part Of: Textual practice. Volume 35:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 73
• Page End: 90
• Publication Date: 2021-01-02
• Subjects: New materialism -- object-oriented ontology -- Karl Ove Knausgård -- My Struggle -- performative biographism -- Bruno Latour; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Criticism -- Periodicals; Criticism, Textual -- Periodicals; Semiotics -- Periodicals; 801.95
• DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2019.1655472
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0950-236X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article introduces the term 'performative biographism' and sees the recent boom in autofictional writing as part of this trend. With Karl Ove Knausgård's My Struggle as my example, I relate performative biographism to the turn to things in recent theory in order to bring out two aspects of a post-anthropocentric conception of authorship. It turns out that this has relevance for literature's modes of existence in general.