Akademisk Plysbjørn: En receptionsanalyse af Winnie-the-Pooh i et litteraturkritisk perspektiv: En receptionsanalyse af Winnie-the-Pooh i et litteraturkritisk perspektiv
Oversat titel
Academic Pooh Bear: A reception analysis of Winnie-the-Pooh in a literary critical perspective: A reception analysis of Winnie-the-Pooh in a literary critical perspective
Forfatter
Bødker, Alberte
Semester
4. semester
Uddannelse
Udgivelsesår
2020
Afleveret
2020-10-15
Antal sider
61
Resumé
Winnie-the-Pooh blev udgivet i 1926 af A. A. Milne og har siden sat spor i både litteratur og film gennem Disneys bearbejdninger. Alligevel er bøgerne påfaldende fraværende i litteraturkritikken, hvor der findes få akademiske undersøgelser af deres underliggende betydninger. Denne afhandling undersøger, hvordan bøgerne om Winnie-the-Pooh er blevet brugt i litteraturkritik siden 1926, og hvilken historisk udvikling denne brug afspejler. Projektet er en receptionsanalyse med et litteraturkritisk fokus. Afhandlingen analyserer fire kilder som repræsentative eksempler: The Pooh Perplex (1964), Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: a neurodevelopmental perspective on A. A. Milne (2000), Postmodern Pooh (2001) og The Survival of a Woman: A Feminist Approach to Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner (2015). Alle anlægger et litteraturkritisk perspektiv, undtagen Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood, som har en medicinsk og psykologisk tilgang. Teoretisk bygger afhandlingen på diskursteori og -analyse, især Norman Faircloughs kritiske diskursanalyse (herunder hans tredimensionelle model) og Ernesto Laclau og Chantal Mouffes diskursteori. Den inddrager også Kenneth B. Kidds Freud in Oz (2011) og kapitlet Oversigt over kritiske skoler af Ane M. K. Lønneker m.fl. Analysen undersøger først tekstlige træk med udgangspunkt i Faircloughs model og identificerer derefter de litteraturkritiske strategier, kilderne benytter. I den efterfølgende diskussion anvendes yderligere dele af Faircloughs model sammen med Laclau og Mouffe for at beskrive kildernes diskursive og sociale praksisser og placere dem i relevante diskurser. Afhandlingen konkluderer, at alle fire kilder kan placeres i Kenneth B. Kidds ‘Poohology’-diskurs, hvis denne udvides til flere spor: (1) et psykoanalytisk, men ikke litteraturkritisk, spor (Kidds egen tekst), (2) et litteraturkritisk spor, som The Pooh Perplex, Postmodern Pooh og The Survival of a Woman følger, og (3) et medicinsk spor, repræsenteret af Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood, der anlægger et neuro- og udviklingspsykologisk perspektiv. Samtidig understreges det, at diskurser forandrer sig, og at resultaterne derfor er knyttet til netop dette kildemateriale. Endelig viser afhandlingen, at kilderne i høj grad afspejler deres samtid og udviklingen i litteraturkritikken.
Published in 1926 by A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh has since moved across literature and film through Disney’s adaptations. Yet the books are notably underexplored in literary criticism, with little academic work on their underlying meanings. This thesis examines how the Pooh books have been used in literary criticism since 1926 and what this academic use reveals about changing historical contexts. It is a reception analysis with a literary-critical focus. Four sources are studied as representative cases: The Pooh Perplex (1964); Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: a neurodevelopmental perspective on A. A. Milne (2000); Postmodern Pooh (2001); and The Survival of a Woman: A Feminist Approach to Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner (2015). All take a literary-critical perspective except Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood, which offers a medical and psychological approach. The thesis draws on discourse theory and analysis, especially Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis (including his three-dimensional model) and Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s theory of discourse. It also uses Kenneth B. Kidd’s Freud in Oz (2011) and the chapter Oversigt over kritiske skoler by Ane M. K. Lønneker et al. The analysis first examines textual features using Fairclough’s model, then identifies the critical strategies each source employs. The discussion then applies further parts of Fairclough’s model together with Laclau and Mouffe to describe the sources’ discursive and social practices and to identify which discourses they align with. Based on this framework, the thesis finds that all four sources fit within Kenneth B. Kidd’s ‘Poohology’ discourse if it is reimagined to include multiple strands: (1) a psychoanalytic but not literary-critical strand (Kidd’s own text), (2) a literary-critical strand followed by The Pooh Perplex, Postmodern Pooh, and The Survival of a Woman, and (3) a medical strand represented by Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood, which adopts a neuro- and developmental-psychological perspective on the Pooh books. Because discourses change, these placements are specific to this set of sources. The thesis also shows that the sources largely mirror their own times and shifts within literary criticism.
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