University of Bergen : Faculty of Arts : Dept of Russian Studies

— linguistic liberalisation and literary development in Russia in the 1920s and 1990s

Landslide of the Norm :: People :: Knut Andreas Grimstad

Knut Andreas Grimstad is Associate Professor and Head of Polish Studies in the Department of Literature and European Languages, University of Oslo. He has published on early Russian hagiography, Russian seventeenth- and nineteenth-century prose, Polish Baroque literature, Russian and Polish Modernism, as well as contemporary Polish poetry. Among his other interests are popular culture and Jewish-Polish relations in independent Poland 1918-39. He is co-editor (with Ingunn Lunde) of Celebrating Creativity: Essays in Honour of Jostein Børtnes (1997) and (with Ursula Phillips) of Gender and Sexuality in Ethical Context: Ten Essays on Polish Prose (2005). The translator of many scholarly articles on Slavic literature, culture and literary theory, he is also a founding member of the Programme on East European Cultures and Societies (PEECS) at the University of Trondheim (NTNU), as well as a member of the advisory board of Slavica Bergensia and of Trondheim Studies in East European Culture and Societies.

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Publications

Book

2007. Styling Russia: Multiculture in the Prose of Nikolai Leskov, (Slavica Bergensia 7), Bergen, 256 pp.

Edited books

1997. (with Ingunn Lunde) Celebrating Creativity: essays in honour of Jostein Børtnes, Bergen, xx+350 pp. ISBN: 82-91626-02-2. (Reviews: SEER (Arnold McMillin, 1998, 1), SEEJ (Priscilla Meyer, 1998, 3), Europe-Asia Studies (Andrei Rogatchevski, 1998, 50 (5)), Slavonica (Gareth Jones, 1999, 1); NLO (36, 1999, S. Zhozhikashvili), RES (70 (2) 1998, Pierre-Yves Boissau)), Canadian-American Slavic Studies 36 (1-2), 2002 (Paul Austin).)

2005. (with Ursula Phillips), Gender and Sexuality in Ethical Context: Ten Essays on Polish Prose, (Slavica Bergensia 5), 287 pp.

Articles

1992. Slavistika mezhdu fiordami, Slavianovedenie 3, pp. 101-110.

1993. The Anagogical Significance of the Kievan Caves Monastery in Nestor’s Zhitie prepodobnago ottsa nashego Feodosiia, igumena Pecher'skago manastyria, Scando-Slavica 39, pp. 37-51.

1995. The Russian Element in Stanisław Brzozowski: An Analysis of the Novel Flames (Płomienie), Scando-Slavica 41, pp. 5-21.

1997. The Rhetoric of an Archpriest: Nikolai Leskov and the Orthodox Heritage, Cultural Discontinuity and Reconstruction: The Byzanto-Slav Heritage and the Creation of a Russian National Literature in the Nineteenth Century, eds. J. Børtnes & I. Lunde, Oslo: Solum, pp. 217-236.

1997. Nikolai Leskov and the Problem of Polyethnicity, Celebrating Creativity: essays in honour of Jostein Børtnes, eds. K. A. Grimstad & I. Lunde, Bergen, pp. 57-72.

1997. (med I. Lunde) Foreword, Celebrating Creativity: essays in honour of Jostein Børtnes, eds. K. A. Grimstad & I. Lunde, Bergen, pp. xi-xii.

1998. Tale of Woe-Misfortune [Povest’ o Gore i Zlochastii], Reference Guide to Russian Literature, ed. Neil Cornwell, London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, pp. 792-793.

1998. Nestor, Reference Guide to Russian Literature, ed. Neil Cornwell, London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, pp. 580-582.

1998. The Manner and the Meaning: Stylistic Mingling in Nikolaj Leskov’s Novel Soborjane, Scando-Slavica 44, pp. 85-96.

1998. Polietnichnost’ kak religioznaia problema v ‘Ocharovannom strannike’ N. S. Leskova, Evangel’skii tekst v russkoi literature XVIII-XX vekov: sitata, reministsensiia, motiv, siuzhet, zhanr 2, (Problemy istoricheskoi poetiki 5), ed. V. Zakharov, Petrozavodsk: Petrozavodsk State University, pp. 454-461.

1999. Øyeblikkets natur, Riss 1, pp. 82-83.

1999. Micro-Harmony and Russian Realism: Leskov and the Language of Feeling, Dialogue and Rhetoric (Slavica Bergensia 1), ed. I. Lunde, Bergen, pp. 55-71.

2000. Styles and Stories in the Fiction of Nikolai Leskov, Severnyi sbornik: Proceedings of the NorFA Network in Russian Literature 1995-2000 (Stockholm Studies in Russian Literature 34), eds. P. A. Jensen & I. Lunde, Stockholm, pp. 158-170.

2001. Boarding the Banbury: Gombrowicz and the Provocation of Culture, Translating Culture: Essays in Honour of Erik Egeberg, eds. G. Kjetsaa et al, Oslo: Solum, pp. 94-107.

2002. Co zdarzyło się na brygu Banbury? Gombrowicz, erotyka i prowokacja kultury, Teksty drugie, 3, pp. 57-69.

2002. ‘No Sissy Stuff!’ – The En-gendering Significance of Polishness in Gogol’s Taras Bulba, Festschrift in honour of Arnold McMillin (New Zealand Slavonic Journal 36), ed. I. Zohrab, 2002, pp. 115-127.

2002. The Globalization of Biography: On Multilocation in the Transatlantic Writings of Witold Gombrowicz, 1939-69, Trondheim Studies on East European Cultures & Societies (Approaches to Globality), 10, pp. 1-23.

2002. A Baroque Harbinger of the Polish Novel: Delving into Jan Pasek’s Memoirs, Motskrift 1, pp. 57-67.

2002. What Happened on the Banbury? On Gombrowicz, Eroticism and the Provocation of Culture, Swedish-Polish Modernism: Literature – Language – Culture (Konferenser 56), Kung. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, ed. M. A. Packalén, Stockholm, pp. 191-204.

2003. Slavic Émigré Writers and the ‘Nationalist’ Function of Homosexuality, Motskrift 2, pp. 20-28.

2004. The Impasse of Violence, or Why Irony is Important in Isaac Babel’s Konarmiia Stories, Telling Forms. 30 Essays in Honour of Peter Alberg Jensen (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, Stockholm Studies in Russian Literature 37), eds. K. Grelz & S. Witt, pp. 96-109.

2005. Strategie transatlantyckie w powojennej twórczości Gombrowicza, Narracja i tożsamość (II). Antropologiczne problemy literatury, eds. W. Bolecki & R. Nycz, Warsaw, pp. 401-410.

2005. (with Ursula Phillips) Introduction: Entering into Ethics, Gender and Sexuality in Ethical Context: Ten Essays on Polish Prose (Slavica Bergensia 5), eds. K. A. Grimstad & U. Phillips, pp. 7-17.

2005. Gombrowicz’s “Gender Trouble” or, the Problem of Intimacy in Possessed, Gender and Sexuality in Ethical Context: Ten Essays on Polish Prose (Slavica Bergensia 5), eds. K. A. Grimstad & U. Phillips, Bergen, pp. 222-253.

2005. Beyond Identity Politics, or the Polish Past Mastered: Transatlantic Strategies in the Writings of Witold Gombrowicz, Slavonica 10, 2, guest ed. G. Péteri, pp. 53-68.

2006. Performing “Bolshevism” or, the Diverse Minority Idiom of Isaac Babel, in Landslide of the Norm: Language Culture in Post-Soviet Russia, (Slavica Bergensia 6) eds. I. Lunde & T. Roesen, Bergen, pp. 235–262.

2006. ‘A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other’: On Gendered Sensibility in the Poetry of Wisława Szymborska, Wisława Szymborska – A Stockholm Conference. May 23-2, 2003, eds. L. Neuger & R. Wennerholm, Stockholm, pp. 93-106.

2007. L'homoérotisme sublimé, ou comment maîtriser le passé polonais, Gombrowicz – une gueule de classique?, ed. M. Smorąg-Goldberg, Paris, pp. 231-41.

2007. Gombrowicz et ses stratégies transatlantiques. Witold Gombrowicz entre L’Europe et L’Amérique, intro. R. Gombrowicz, ed. M. Tomaszewski, Villeneuve d’Ascq, pp. 115-126.

2008. Det nærværende fraværs retorikk: om fremstillingen av jødiskhet i det posttotalitære Polen, Terminal øst. Totalitære og posttotalitære diskurser, eds. I. Lunde & S. Witt, Oslo, pp. 47-62.

Forthcoming

2008. Transcending the East-West Divide? Cosmopolitanism in Polish Interwar Cabaret and the Jewish Participation, Poles and Jews in the Public Sphere - Mutual Perceptions (Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts VII), ed. D. Diner, 30 pp.

2008. Gombrowicz mellom fjord og fjell: Umodenhetsproblematikken sett med norske øyne, ‘Gör mig inte till någon simpel demon – en hyllning till Witold Gombrowicz med anledning av hundraårsjubileet av hans födelse, ed. L. Neuger, Stockholm, 13 pp.

2009. The Rhetoric of Present Absence: Representing Jewishness in Post-Totalitarian Poland, Contesting Europe’s Rim: Cultural Identities in Public Discourse, Bristol, eds. Lj. Šarić et al, 27 pp.

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