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 increasinginterest 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 visualarts.This for instance applies to the work of Stellan Mörner, who as a member of the HalmstadGroup, has mainly been thought of as a painter so far. Though he is the author of twosurrealistic novels. Both of them, Timmarna innan (1948) and Resa med flaggstång (1956),imply aspects of intertextuality and intermediality. This perfectly describes the main focus ofthe present thesis.Here, two analyses will try to answer the following question: What is the purpose for thesurrealist Stellan Mörner in using intertextuality and intermediality in his novels and howdoes it help him develop his poetics? In this context it is important to point out that hedistanced himself from Breton's approach of Automatic writing. In fact he adopted theParanoiac-critical method Dalí exposed in his theories.Since the novels enclose autobiographical tendencies, Mörner establishes a relationshipbetween his biography and his intertextual and intermedial works. Thus the assumptionderives, that his poetics not only push the boundary of text and context, but also that of theartist's works and his biography.