Intertextualität und Intermedialität am Beispiel von Stellan Mörners Novellen

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Skandinavistik, Note: 1,3, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Nordeuropa-Institut), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In the recent decades, aspects of intertextuality and intermediality have become of increasing

interest to literary criticism and cultural studies. This has engendered a closer look at artists,

whose works cover multiple disciplines or media, and refer to works from literature to visual

arts.

This for instance applies to the work of Stellan Mörner, who as a member of the Halmstad

Group, has mainly been thought of as a painter so far. Though he is the author of two

surrealistic novels. Both of them, Timmarna innan (1948) and Resa med flaggstång (1956),

imply aspects of intertextuality and intermediality. This perfectly describes the main focus of

the present thesis.

Here, two analyses will try to answer the following question: What is the purpose for the

surrealist Stellan Mörner in using intertextuality and intermediality in his novels and how

does it help him develop his poetics? In this context it is important to point out that he

distanced himself from Breton¿s approach of Automatic writing. In fact he adopted the

Paranoiac-critical method Dalí exposed in his theories.

Since the novels enclose autobiographical tendencies, Mörner establishes a relationship

between his biography and his intertextual and intermedial works. Thus the assumption

derives, that his poetics not only push the boundary of text and context, but also that of the

artist¿s works and his biography.