Jeg ved at der i hvert fald er et par stykker af jer der kan dansk, så kom og læs Rifbjerg med mig!!! Hvis i ikke har kigget på ham siden novellerne i 9. klasse sp er det tid NU til at give ham en chance mere
(Zeus i det humør af Klaus Rifbjerg fra samlingen Mytologi, 1970)
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The Flight of the Eagle (1982). In 1897 Swedish engineer S. A. Andrée with 2 colleagues prepares to fly over the North Pole in his balloon "Eagle".
The cinematography of this is so staggeringly haunting that it feels seared into my memory already - not just in the profound shots of North Pole isolation, but in the energy and life of the Sweden that the three men have left behind in their search for adventure and legacy. Overall, the film takes a minute to get going, but once it does, it feels relentless in the way these sorts of movies should, with just the right tinge of horror to sell the - - well - - horror of the situation. It's pretty great. 8/10.
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What is the worst book you have ever read?
Last year, during my Scandinavian literature class in the Danish section, we had to read this book called "Dobbeltgænger eller Den korte, inderlige men fuldstændig sande beretning om Klaus Rifbjergs liv" ["Doppelganger or The short, heartfelt but completely true account of Klaus Rifbjerg's life] by Klaus Rifbjerg.
I had no clue what I was getting into when starting this book.
I don't know much about the author himself — and despite the title, I promise you, I don't think you will learn much from it either. I think I can recommend reading this book only because it's short, but if you're sensitive... Just be careful.
It made me really really sick. I understand that it was supposed to be grotesque and have shock value, etc. So, maybe I just can't... appreciate it — and someone else will, I don't know.
I don't really want to spoil why exactly it was so bad, in case someone wants to read it and shock themselves too, but I also don't really want to leave this title without any further explanation. So I'll spoil it a little under the cut.
The book is from the 1980s but it takes place in the 1930s-1940s Denmark.
It's basically written like an autobiography, the author states that he remembers every single thing ever since he was born — his birth included. The child character also has the thoughts and clearness of mind of an adult.
I don't want to describe the entire plot of it, but the "shocking" part of it is the amount of child sexual abuse described from the perspective of the child. And not only is the literal toddler (the character gets older as the book goes, but all sexual intercourses are happening to them when they're 2-9 years old, I think) describing it. It's also written in a way that the child enjoys it and encourages it a lot. Except for the last sex scene where, as far as I remember, the child gets r*ped by a nazi soldier.
I think there's some place for interpretation, that you can stop and give it a moment — if the character really experiences those things or is it just their imagination? At least I assume so, because it does have quite positive reviews.
But honestly, I wasn't able to think about it nor am I able to think about it now, because of how disgusting and explicitly described it was.
So, I think — excluding whatever context it had at that time and the author's intention — it's the worst book I've ever read.
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Tilfældighedsdigte
Writer, what do you create from accidents?
Writer, what do you create from accidents?
The tenth poem in Danish writer, Klaus Rifbjerg’s Portrait, portrays the wedding in Rifbjerg’s typical experimental style of words dislocated from logic and expectation. Rifbjerg calls these poems tilfældighedsdigte (accidental/coincidental poems).
slam your legs up on the supper buffet
you have not yet been betrayed
the bridal waltz will be…
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Movies I watched this Week #131 (Year 3/Week 27):
I must start watching all of Claude Chabrol's films!
His final film, Bellamy, was my most enjoyable film of the week; So pleasantly mature, so well-made, simply a pleasure. Inspector Gérard Depardieu's infatuation with his beautiful wife, the cemetery where Georges Brassens is buried, a convoluted Georges Simenon crime story told with cinematic beauty and restrain. Magnifique.
“There is always another story, there is always more than meets the eye”. 8/10.
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2 Danish films:
🍿 I finally went to the cinema, for the first time in more than 5 years! (Photos Above!). And what I saw was Tove's Room, a new, brutal chamber play by Martin Zandvliet (My second film by him, after 'Dirch'). It tells of the long-suffering feminist writer Tove Ditlevsen and her (4th) husband, the abusive Victor Andreason. Like George and Martha of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?', this takes place in one room over a few hours of a sadistic and disgusting cat-and-mouse struggle for control and mental degradation. Together with a visiting Klaus Rifbjerg, and the cryptic maid, the two perform an unpleasant flogging act, not for the faint of heart. Shortly after the time of this play, she committed suicide.
🍿 Jørgen Leth's classic short from 1967, The Perfect Human. Lars von Trier considered Leth his mentor, and in 2003 they created 'The Five Obstructions', challenging the original by making it 5 new, different times.
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70 years ago, Gentlemen prefer blonds turned Marilyn Monroe into a global sex symbol. Her Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend song and dance number was indeed sensational. It was Howard Hawk's only (?) musical. A surprising feminist screed. 7/10.
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10 Icelandic films, 6 of which are by Rúnar Rúnarsson:
🍿 Re-watch: During this project and before this week, I've seen 9 Icelandic films, and most of them were excellent. But Rúnarsson's magical Echo was the one that moved me the most. It's a gentle patchwork of 56 short vignettes, all taking place during the Christmas holidays, each delivering a discreet and poignant story: A young girl comes to visit her father's new family, a group of old people doing aerobics in a pool, a librarian calls his mom on the phone, a farmer is being rejected for a loan, a family is buying a Christmas tree... Each one more beautiful and heartbreaking than the other. If you could improve on Roy Andersson's movies, you'll get 'Echo'. Get your handkerchiefs ready. 10/10.
🍿 So I decided to visit the rest of his 'oeuvre'.
Anna (2009) was his final presentation short from his Danish film school. It tells of some challenges of a 12-year-old girl who lives with her single mom in a small fishing village. A touching, beautiful poem in a minor key.
[The Danish Film School itself has a good Vimeo account!]
🍿 The Last Farm earned him his first Oscar nomination. An old farmer in a remote valley prepare to bury himself together with his dead wife without telling anybody. Tremendous 17-min. short, with score by Sigur Rós. 9/10.
🍿 2 birds is another short about lost innocent; A shy teenage goes with a girl he has a crush on to a house party with a much older crowd where things get out of hand.
🍿 Volcano was Rúnarsson's debut feature. [Spoilers: Hannes is a grouchy withdrawn "Ove", who used to be a fisherman and is now retired after being a school janitor for 40 years. It starts as a standard Nordic fair, with him trying to kill himself after his retirement party, being alienated from his family, and sour on his lot. But when he overhears his grown-up children talking how miserable his long-suffering wife must be with such a curmudgeon, he takes heart. His apology to his wife turns into a shocking and tender "old people sex", and it looks like this will be a story of healing. However, their happiness is short lived when she suffers a massive stroke and falls into a coma.
A year before Michael Haneke's 'Amour' won all the prizes, he tragically erupt at the end in exactly the same way.] 8/10.
🍿 Sparrows was Rúnarsson's second feature. On the one hand, it tells of a 16-year-boy who moved from the capital to the countryside, and have to put up with his estranged, "loser" father. But at the end he shifts gears and repeats the exact same story from his previous short '2 birds' (above): The boy and friends go to a party, score some Ketamine, and he watches helplessly as three party-goes date-rape his girl. Later as she comes to, he reassures her (in an act of selflessness) that it was he who deflowered her. The boy is even played by the same actor in both movies. And I didn't like it either time.
🍿 Completing all of Rúnar Rúnarsson's films, I continued with some other winners of the Icelandic "Oscars" Edda Awards:
Heartstone was the debut feature by one Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson. A sensitive and beautiful love story between two preteen boys in a remote fishing village. Sensual and moving. If it was just a tiny bit shorter, it would be a perfect companion piece to Belgian Lukas Dhont's 'Close' and 'Call me by your name'. 9/10.
🍿 Guðmundsson's previous poetic short Whale Valley also opened on an attempted suicide by hanging. A short poem about two brothers who live far away in an isolated fjord. A beached whale is being cut up. 7/10.
🍿 Rams tells another tragic story of two estranged brothers, both sheep farmers, who live next to each other at a remote Icelandic countryside, and who hasn't spoken with each other for 40 years. It was voted the second-greatest Icelandic film of all time. 8/10.
🍿 Sker ("Skerry") is an 11-minute wordless story about a kayaker who find a little islet. 9/10.
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My first 2 films from Uruguay:
🍿 Whiskey does not refer to the drink, but to the way they "Say Cheese" down there. Another random pick of a film I never heard of, this low-key joyless comedy turned out to be a magnificent little masterpiece.
A shabby, lonely and drab world, like one of the forgotten provincial towns described so well in "100 years of solitude", it slowly and meticulously follows the dreary life of Jacobo, a 70-year-old owner of a modest sock factory. He has only two workers, and one loyal lady supervising them. Their laconic and minimal interactions are repetitive and awkward. But when his long-lost brother comes for a short visit, Jacobo asks Marta to pretend that she's his wife. The uncomfortable interactions between the three ungainly, melancholic characters brings to mind the heart behind Aki Kaurismaki''s dramas.
100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and it's hard to imagine that this mature gem was created by a young 30-year-old (who committed suicide two years later!). 10/10 - The best film of the week!
🍿 A Useful Life, another terrific art film by one Federico Veiroj. An economical, bare-bone story about a middle-age curator at a small Cinemateca, a dilapidated, struggling institution. Like the real 'Cinemateca Uruguaya of Montevideo', it is about to close after 50 years, because the few visitors it has cannot support its existence any longer. It's delicate and humane, like the movies shown in the half-empty auditorium for a few aging cineastes. 9/10.
Coincidentally, it starts with the two film archivists going through a package of films from Iceland! (and most of the films I saw this week are from these two small film countries, Uruguay and Iceland!)
Both these films portray life in Uruguay, a little country between Brazil and Argentina, as a sad, marginal and neglected place.
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Suzume, my third animated fantasy by Makoto Shinkai (after 'The garden of words' and 'Your name') is about a girl looking for her dead 'Okasa' (mother). As beautiful as some of Ghibli-Studio productions (The story even starts at a place called Miyazaki), with high imagination and stunning visuals. But also with confusing theology and a story with too many elements: Romance, supernatural, lost parent, trauma over the 2011 earthquake.
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“… why would I want to save a homeless shelter?…”
Another repeated re-watch, often paired with 'The American President', Ivan Reitman's charming Dave about an ordinary person who is suddenly thrust into a position of power. Written by Gary Ross (who also wrote 'Big', 'Pleasantville', 'The hunger games') and with superb acting by everybody involved: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Charles Grodin, Ving Rhames and Frank Langella. Sweet romance, and idealistic presidential fantasy, made in 1993, before Clinton turned into the massive Neo-liberal douche-bag he ended up being. 9/10.
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The man with two Brains. Steve Marin as Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr was unfunny, and sexy Kathleen Turner also unfunny. 2/10.
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Unknown: The lost pyramid is a new documentary about the interesting archeological digs in Saqqara, Egypt, but told in the usual Netflix style, shallow and melodramatic.
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A chump at Oxford was a 1940 Hal Roach comedy with Laurel and Hardy, a juvenile pratfall. With James Finlayson (I think) and Peter Cushing. Not funny - 2/10.
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(My complete movie list is here).
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Toves Værelse
🇩🇰 UGENS PREMIEREFILM: I 1960’erne bor Tove Ditlevsen (Paprika Steen), en af tidens største kvindelige forfattere, i en herskabslejlighed med sin sadistiske chefredaktør af en mand, Victor Andreasen (Lars Brygmann). Deres forhold har sin helt egen særlige dynamik, hvor der er kort fra kærlighed til had, og fra rosende ord til ydmygelser. Da den unge forfatter Klaus Rifbjerg (Joachim Fjelstrup)…
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Klaus Rifbjerg (December 15, 1931 - 2015) was the dominant Danish author for almost 5 decades from his groundbreaking Modernist poetry of the 1950s (Under vejr med mig selv, 1956) and the seminal Danish generational novel, Den kroniske uskyld, 1958. He mastered all literary genres - poetry, fiction, drama (for stage, TV and radio), memoirs, travel literature, cabaret, essays, children’s books, etc. - leaving a bibliography of about 250 volumes as his lasting legacy.
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Politik er det muliges kunst
siger den umulige politiker.
Vi må løse problemerne henad vejen
siger folketingsmanden med træben.
Det har vi taget højde for
siger udvalgsmedlemmet på 1.40.
Vi fra vor side
siger den halve radikaler.
Set fra vores synspunkt
siger den blive fra højre.
Hvis jeg må sige det på den måde
siger den socialdemokratiske bugtaler.
Hvis det må være mig tilladt
siger venstremanden med en truende mine.
Situationen er kritisk
siger statsministeren.
så er det sagt
Klaus Rifbjerg ; Scener fra det daglige liv
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Posguerra
Increíblemente soloestamos en el bar, encorvadosmientras un estrepitoso cementeriova creciendo a nuestro alrededor con las horas de la noche.
Esto es la felicidad, amor mío,mientras el barman con suficiencia profesionalagita nuestros cócteles,y el hombre de nuestro lado se levantay va tambaleándose con náuseas hacia el baño.
Este es el lugar donde se reúne la gente,aquí nos…
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Dumme danskere vælger dumme politikere
“Der er 2,000 begavede mennesker i Danmark og resten er dumme”. Denne fortræffelige provo bemærkning afslutter et sammenklip fra Deadline hvor Adam Holm har en forfriskende og åndsfrisk Klaus Rifbjerg i Deadline studiet. Er det store forfatter landets sidste pacifist?
“Hr. Jensen” skriver på YouTube:
De fleste danskere er sgu dumme, som Klaus Rifbjerg siger her i dette interview. De politikere vi…
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Livet, begrebet altså, rummede sin egen negation.”
Klaus Rifbjerg
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Skagen by Klaus Rifbjerg
I'm the one who's painted
the pictures at the Skagen museum.
I said to myself
that is your life and then
I began to paint.
I think it all started with the lunch picture
I got so hungry
felt quite at home.
I painted Krøyer and Drachmann
Tuxen, Ancher - her and him
and all the others
right down to Tørsleff.
It was a colossal undertaking
but I was feeling fine
so that didn't matter.
Drachmann helped me a bit
and Krøyer
we talked a lot
looked
and drank just a little.
We looked at Skagen
painted lots of pictures
brought out the light
but most perhaps a way of life
our own
the one I fell for.
I remember the hours
with Krøyer's wife
beneath the elders at Drachmann's,
the burgundy in those heavy glasses
and everything seen
in summer images
melancholy
as if it was all long over.
I remember the evenings at the Prong
the waters that met
and the trouble getting the colours
to toe the line
after all I was the one who was going
to paint everything
wanted to paint everything
before it was no longer there.
There was a scent of death
idyll and linen drawers with lavender
about my Skagen canvases,
but there was plenty of life
back then
there was that.
We got up from the table
after the long drawn-out lunch
and the voices had become more subdued.
We stood in the twilight
before going home our separate ways
but it was hard to take our leave.
Then Anna Ancher turned round
and said:
We're going to sleep now.
She took her husband's arm,
went with him through the gate
and slowly everyone followed suit.
The steps died away between
the houses
the host put out his lamp
it was too late to do any more painting.
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CASE OG CASEANALYSE
Casebeskrivelse:
Ifølge læreplanen på STX ”forbinder faget gennem den intensive tekstlæsning, med udgangspunkt i et udvidet tekstbegreb, sproglige, historiske og æstetiske synsvinkler og bringer dermed oplevelse, analyse og fortolkning i samspil” (Læreplanen i dansk STX, 2017). Meget ofte hos mig selv og hos fagkollegaer oplever jeg, at det primært er analyse og fortolkning, der er fokus i faget og i mindre grad den oplevelsesmæssige dimension. Dette fokus kunne måske skyldes de faglige mål, hvor der ikke nævnes noget om elevernes oplevelse og på den måde, kan man let ”overse” dette aspekt eller prioritere det mindre, til fordel for at træne analyse og fortolkning hos eleverne. Dette hænger også godt sammen med det fokus der er på eksamen, da undervisningen ofte kan blive styret af de vurderingskriterier, der er til eksamen (dette gælder både mundtlig og skriftlig dansk, især analyserende artikel).
Jeg vil derfor gerne undersøge, hvordan et fokus på den undersøgelsesorienterede og oplevelsesmæssige dimension i læsning af dansk litteratur (primært ældre), kan være med til at motivere eleverne mere og øge deres dialog imellem hinanden.
Caseanalyse:
I min 3.g klasse har vi i løbet af de sidste 2, snart 3 år, arbejdet med mange forskellige former for litteratur, dog med en del fokus på den ældre litteratur. Klassen deltager gerne i fælles opsamlinger, men har oftest svært ved at frigøre sig fra eksempelvis arbejdsspørgsmål og derfor kan klassedialogen godt blive lidt ensformig.
Derfor ville jeg gerne undersøge, om en mere induktiv tilgang til læsning af litteratur kunne være med til at åbne op for elevernes oplevelse af litterære tekster, og på den måde være med til at styrke både klassedialogen og elevernes motivation.
Da min 3.g klasse primært har et anstrengt forhold til digte, og finder dem meget kedelige, har jeg valgt, at jeg gerne vil afprøve den mere induktive tilgang af på et digt. Aktionen indgår derfor i et tematisk litteraturforløb med temaet ”Mennesket i krise”, hvor vi startede ud med digtet ”Paa Memphis Station” af Johannes V. Jensen. Denne tekst er også den aktionen tager udgangspunkt.
Problemstilling
Hvordan kan en mere induktiv tilgang til tekstlæsning være med til at åbne op for elevernes oplevelse af litterære tekster, og på den måde være med til at styrke klassedialogen og elevernes motivation?
TEORI
Fagdidaktisk teori:
Undersøgelsesorienteret tilgang til læsning af tekster inspireret af Dewey dvs. eleverne er ikke tomme kar, men har i forvejen erfaringer, viden og kompetencer, som kan inddrages i mødet med Jensens digt.
Rosenblatt – aestetic reading vs. Efferent reading.
Mundtlighedsdidaktik (Dysthe) – dialogisk klasserum og væk fra IRE (Initiative – Respons – Evaluation).
Læserorienteret metode
Almendidaktisk teori:
Motivation og mestring – Beck kap. 7.1
Dialogpædagogik (Dysthe) se Beck kap. 4.2 (klassedialog med læreren som markant deltager – IRF).
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MODULPLAN – HVAD, HVORDAN, HVORFOR
HVAD:
Tematisk litteraturforløb om ”Mennesket i krise”, ca. 8 moduler i alt a 80 min.
Denne aktionsbeskrivelse vil dog kun tage udgangspunkt i 1 modul, hvor klassen skal læse digtet ”Paa Memphis Station” af Johannes V. Jensen.
Følgende tekster indgår i resten af forløbet:
Johannes V. Jensen ”Paa Memphis Station”
Tom Kristensen ”Det blomstrende slagsmål”
Karen Blixen ”Vinger”
Martin A. Hansen ”Paradisæblerne”
Peter Seeberg ”Hullet”
Klaus Rifbjerg ”Til bal”
HVORDAN:
Ofte har mine litteraturforløb været præget af kronologi og dermed også en socialhistorisk/ideologikritisk metode, men denne tilgang har også sine ulemper, og svarer til den læsemåde, Louise Rosenblatt kalder efferent reading (nyttelæsning). Idet jeg i dette forløb også ønskede en mere undersøgelses – og oplevelsesorienteret tilgang til litteratur, har jeg valgt at arbejde ud fra Rosenblatts idé om aestetic reading (nydelseslæsning).
Plan for modulet:
· Klar og tydelig rammesætning, samt forventninger til modulet og formålet
· Fælles læsning af digtet ”Paa Memphis Station”
· Eleverne spørges ind til deres umiddelbare tanker/oplevelse med digtet
· Herefter får eleverne et skema med to bokse: ”Jeg undrede mig over…” ”Jeg lagde mærke til…” – her får eleverne så 5-8 min. Til at notere ting fra digtet.
· Alle elever læser mindst én ting højt fra hver boks
· Sammen med deres sidemand udvælges 2-3 udsagn og en af eleverne går til tavlen og skriver ned
· Herefter starter klassedialogen, hvor vi tager udgangspunkt i elevernes udsagn om digtet og vi bevæger os hen mod en samlet fortolkning til sidst i modulet. Lærer fungerer som ordstyrer og lader eleverne styre dialogen.
HVORFOR
Formålet med aktionen er at øge klassedialogen, samt øge elevernes motivation i forhold til at arbejde med litteratur. Et succeskriterie for aktionen vil være, at flere elever deltager i klassedialogen end hvad der plejer, når vi har haft en mere deduktiv tilgang til litteraturlæsning.
DATA OG EVALUERING
Jeg har efter modulerne, og arbejdet med digtet, evalueret mundtligt med klassen/eleverne.
Der var overvejende rigtig mange positive tilbagemeldinger på den anderledes måde at åbne op for teksten på. En elev påpegede, at det var en god måde at starte en samtale om teksten på, når de blev spurgt direkte efter læsningen ”hvad deres umiddelbare tanker var om digtet”.
Mange var positive over for, at de ikke ”bare” skulle læse digtet og så i gang med arbejdsspørgsmål, men at det havde været rart at læse digtet sammen på klassen og derefter få lov til at skrive dét ned, som undrede dem og dét som de særligt havde lagt mærke til i digtet. Ligeledes var de positive over for at skulle dele med deres klassekammerater, og selvom de syntes, at det havde taget lidt tid at komme igennem alle elevernes iagttagelser, så havde det også været godt, at man hørte, hvordan de andre havde forstået og oplevet digtet. Det fungerede godt, at alle ”skulle” sige noget, så de netop fik mange synspunkter fra starten, og ikke kun et par forskellige synspunkter.
Klassen var som sagt meget positiv og ville gerne prøve lignende måder at åbne op for litterære tekster igen.
I forhold til motivationsaspektet i aktionen, så var der enkelte elever, som udtalte, at det havde været mere motiverende at arbejde på denne måde. Dog var der også én pige, der udtalte: ”Vi kommer bare aldrig til at blive motiverede for at læse digte, uanset hvad du gør og du gør det ellers virkelig godt”.
Jeg oplevede selv, at klassen fra start faktisk havde fået rigtig meget ud af første gennemlæsning, og det var interessant at høre, hvad elevernes umiddelbare oplevelse af digtet havde været. I forhold til det dialogiske klasserum fungerede det godt, at alle elever fik lov til at fortælle, hvad de havde noteret i skemaet med ”Jeg undrede mig over…” og ”Jeg lagde mærke til..” Vores efterfølgende mindmap på tavlen i forhold til elevernes udsagn fungerede som et rigtig godt springbræt til en god diskussion om digtet, hvor mange elever bød ind. Der var også flere af drengene, som fik sagt noget højt og de kan ellers godt være mere tilbageholdende. Det var som om, de var mere frie til at sige noget højt og der var ikke noget ”rigtigt/forkert”, som der normalt ellers godt kan være en tendens til, når eleverne arbejdet med arbejdsspørgsmål. Mit forbehold i forhold til aktionen har været, om snakken blev for løs, men også her overraskede eleverne positivt. Der kom en del analytiske betragtninger og begreber i spil, men enkelte gange måtte jeg også spørge lidt mere direkte ind til bestemte steder i digtet, for at kunne nå frem til en endelig fortolkning.
REFLEKSIONER
mangler.....
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Reseña de la película The Last Sentence (2014)
Reseña de la película The Last Sentence (2014)
Las imágenes en blanco y negro de la película, tomadas digitalmente por primera vez en la carrera de Troell, son impresionantes, por cierto. Las películas de Troell son siempre magníficas. Las palabras escritas en la apertura de la película provienen de la pluma de Torgny Segerstedt, un personaje real de cuya biografía Troell y Klaus Rifbjerg adaptaron la historia de la película. Ya un hombre…
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Ian McEwan: On making love work in fiction
“Literature thrives on conflict.” The renowned British writer Ian McEwan talks of making love work in fiction, the amazing evolution of the novel as a genre, and the mature writer as a toddler of old age.
In literature it seems impossible that someone could be married to the woman they love, McEwan says: “Novels struggle constantly with the business of trying to portray sustained happiness.” Happiness and love is always something fleeting, and thus very precious: “It’s the nature of the human condition that we’re only truly happy in bursts. We can’t be constantly happy.”
Growing older means seeing more and forgiving more, while also loosing some of the fabulous energy of the twenties, explains McEwan: “Novelists don’t have to retire at the age of 31, they accumulate more life, more love, more disappointments, more of everything.” Our consciousness is embodied – our thoughts depend on the body. Growing older is all about the slow collapse of the body: “There’s always something worse coming down the track” he adds with a sly smile. But although times change, the same awkward, fumbling issues remain with us.
Ian McEwan (b. 1948) is an award winning English novelist and screenwriter. McEwan has been nominated for the Man Booker prize six times to date, winning the prize for ‘Amsterdam’ in 1998. In 2001, he published ‘Atonement’, which was made into an Oscar-winning film. This was followed by ‘Saturday’ (2005), ‘On Chesil Beach’ (2007), ‘Solar’ (2010), and ‘Sweet Tooth’ (2012). He was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 2011.
Ian McEwan was interviewed by Synne Rifbjerg at Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2013
Photographers: Klaus Elmer & Mathias Nyholm Schmidt
Editing by Kamilla Bruus
Produced by Christian Lund
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, 2013
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Louisiana Channel is a non-profit video channel for the Internet launched by the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in November 2012. Each week Louisiana Channel will publish videos about and with artists in visual art, literature, architecture, design etc.
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