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Poul Behrendt

  • Emil Holms Kanal 2, 2300 København S, 23 Bygning 23, 23-2-15

    Denmark

1991 …2017

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Personal profile

Current research

  • From the shadows of what we know. At the threshold of self presentation (Karl Ove Knausgård, (Claus Beck-)Nielsen).
  • Isak Dinesen & The Second World War: The Winter's Tale in 'The Firm of Dinesen & Blixen'.
  • On The Art of writing Posthumous Papers. The Double Contract in The Pseudonymous Firm of Søren Kierkegaard.
  • The original diaries of Thorkild Hansen, 1944-1989.

Primary fields of research

  • Three kinds of autofiction: Autofiction, Double Contract, Autonarration.
  • Authors: Karl Ove Knausgård, (Claus Beck-) Nielsen, Peter Høeg, Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen, Søren Kierkegaard.
  • Narratology: Focalization, Free Indirect Discourse in 1st and 3rd person

Teaching

Vejledning efter forudgående aftale.

CV

  • 2012-2017 Honorary Professor, University of Copenhagen
  • 1980-2011 Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen
  • 1978-1988 Editor of the quarterly Kritik

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Narratology
  • Double Contract
  • Autofiction
  • Autonarration