Per Bäckström

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Per Bäckström (2016)

Per Bäckström (* 1959 ) is a Swedish literary scholar and university professor.

Bäckström is Professor of Comparative Literature at Linnaeus University in Växjö , Sweden. He worked as Professor of Comparative Literature from 2010 to 2019 at Karlstad University and from 1996 to 2010 as a lecturer at the Department of Culture and Literature at Tromsø University in Norway. In 2007 he was involved in the founding of the European Network for Studies on Avant-garde and Modernism (EAM) and headed the Membership Commission from 2007 to 2011.

He has published studies on Bruno K. Öijer , Henri Michaux , Gunnar Ekelöf , Michail Bachtin , intermediality , grotesque , concrete poetry , performance , avant-garde and the neo-avant-garde. He critically read Michael Riffaterre's Semiotics of Poetry, in which he introduces Riffaterre's theory, explaining why it was unsuccessful, and criticizing it for what he believed to be a lack of consistency with experimental poetry. In particular, he examined the use of the terms “modern” and “avant-garde” in Romance languages ​​compared to English, and the role of the peripheries in relation to the alleged centers of the avant-garde in the 20th century. He is currently working on the Swedish avant-garde Öyvind Fahlström and the anti-aesthetics of rock music .

bibliography

  • 2003 Aska, Tomhet & Eld. Outsider problems hos Bruno K. Öijer (ash, emptiness & fire. The outsider in Bruno K. Öijer), (thesis) Lund: Ellerström.
  • 2003 Sense and Senses in Aesthetics , Per Bäckström & Troels Degn Johansson (eds.), Göteborg: NSU Press.
  • 2005 Enhet i mångfalden. Henri Michaux och det groteska (Unity in abundance. Henri Michaux and the grotesque), Lund: Ellerström.
  • 2007 Center-Periphery. The Avant-Garde and the Other , Per Bäckström (Ed.), Nordlit. University of Tromsø, No. 21.
  • 2007 Le Grotesque dans l'œuvre d'Henri Michaux. Qui cache son fou, meurt sans voix , Paris: L'Harmattan.
  • 2010 Vårt brokigas ochellericke! Om experimental poesi (Our colorful Undodernicht !. About experimental poetry), Lund: Ellerström.
  • 2010 Samspill mellom kunstartene. Modernisme i nordisk lyrikk 4 ( Interplay of the arts. Modernism in Nordic poetry), Hadle Oftedal Andersen, Per Bäckström & Unni Langås (eds.), Helsinki: University of Helsinki.
  • 2011 Norsk avantgarde (Norwegian avantgarde), Per Bäckström & Bodil Børset (eds.), Oslo: Novus.
  • 2014 Decentring the Avant-Garde , Per Bäckström & Benedikt Hjartarson (Eds.), Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, Avantgarde Critical Studies.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Texts in Google Scholar [1]
  2. ↑ Texts in Google Books [2]
  3. ↑ “(forgive us, o life! The sin of death. A Critical Reading of Michael Riffaterre's Semiotics of Poetry” , Textual Practice vol. 25 no. 5, October 2011.
  4. ↑ The article has appeared in several publications. The German version can be found at: Per Bäckström. “One Earth, Four or Five Words. The Peripheral Concept of 'Avant-Garde' ”, Action-Yes vol. 1, issue 12 Winter 2010. The article sparked a response from the Canadian researcher and poet Robert Archambeau : “The Avant-Garde in Babel. Two or Three Notes on Four or Five Words ”, Action-Yes vol. 1, issue 8 Autumn 2008.
  5. ^ Per Bäckström and Benedikt Hjartarson. “Rethinking the Topography of the International Avant-Garde”, in Decentring the Avant-Garde (2014), Per Bäckström & Benedikt Hjartarson (eds.), Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, Avantgarde Critical Studies.
personal data
SURNAME Backström, Per
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1959