Case Study: No Particular Place to go.: Allegorical Devices in Jens Schelderup Sneedorff's Den patriotiske Tilskuer

Henrik Blicher

Case Study: No Particular Place to go. Allegorical Devices in Jens Schelderup Sneedorff's Den patriotiske Tilskuer

Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics

Abstract

The essayistic, narrative treatment of various aspects of daily life in the spectatorial periodicals is one of the major inventions of this genre. In using this literary form the weeklies resemble the newly emerging genre of the novel. At the same time, older literary forms like allegory are also present in the moral weeklies, although they are retooled for a contemporary audience. The present case study on the temple allegories in Sneedorff's Danish Den patriotiske Tilskuer will show, that allegory has its proper semantics with a distinct tendency toward abstraction and generalization in contrast to a mimesis based on empirical investment in the concrete and demonstrable.

Translated title of the contribution	Steder i særdeleshed: Allegoriske indretninger i dansk Spectator-litteratur
Original language	English
Title of host publication	Spectator-Type Periodicals in International Perspective : Enlightened Moral Journalism in Europe and North America
Editors	Misia Sophia Doms
Number of pages	16
Volume	1
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	Peter Lang
Publication date	2020
Pages	393-408
ISBN (Print)	978-3-631-76114-4
Publication status	Published - 2020

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Case Study: No Particular Place to go. Allegorical Devices in Jens Schelderup Sneedorff's Den patriotiske Tilskuer. / Blicher, Henrik.

Spectator-Type Periodicals in International Perspective: Enlightened Moral Journalism in Europe and North America. ed. / Misia Sophia Doms. Vol. 1 Berlin : Peter Lang, 2020. p. 393-408.

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