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Danish Studies: Literature

Danish Studies: Literature LITER AT U R E By Jens Lohfert Jørgensen, University College South, Denmark (This survey covers the years 2007– )2008 1. Gener al Poul BehrendtD , en hemmelige note. Ti kapitler om små ting der forandrer a , lt Gyldendal, 2007, 445 pp., refers to Søren Kierkegaard in B.’s definition of what he terms the ‘secret note’ of a narrative: a single piece of information, withheld by the narration, which revises its course in the moment it is made public. In this sense, a secret note changes actions, not by interfering with them but by changing the way they are viewed. It involves the calculated deception of the reader’s expectations of the work on the part of the narrator: while the role of the ‘first-time reader’ is precisely to be fooled, the role of the ‘informed reader’ is to realize how he was fooled. B. differentiates between three variants of the secret note: one completely outside the work, one completely internal to the work, and one involving both of these variants. Adapting the conspiratorial tone that also dominated his lD as ot bb be oltk ok ontrak ten (see YWMLS, 68, 845), B. analyses the occurrences of these three http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies Brill

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LITER AT U R E By Jens Lohfert Jørgensen, University College South, Denmark (This survey covers the years 2007– )2008 1. Gener al Poul BehrendtD , en hemmelige note. Ti kapitler om små ting der forandrer a , lt Gyldendal, 2007, 445 pp., refers to Søren Kierkegaard in B.’s definition of what he terms the ‘secret note’ of a narrative: a single piece of information, withheld by the narration, which revises its course in the moment it is made public. In this sense, a secret note changes actions, not by interfering with them but by changing the way they are viewed. It involves the calculated deception of the reader’s expectations of the work on the part of the narrator: while the role of the ‘first-time reader’ is precisely to be fooled, the role of the ‘informed reader’ is to realize how he was fooled. B. differentiates between three variants of the secret note: one completely outside the work, one completely internal to the work, and one involving both of these variants. Adapting the conspiratorial tone that also dominated his lD as ot bb be oltk ok ontrak ten (see YWMLS, 68, 845), B. analyses the occurrences of these three

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The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies – Brill

Published: Mar 19, 2010

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