JAN ERIK VOLD’S CONCRETE POEMS: A WAY TO ENHANCE STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY AND GRAMMAR SKILLS IN NORWEGIAN

Authors

  • Raluca-Daniela DUINEA Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature, Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Letters, Cluj-Napoca. Email: raluca.radut@ubbcluj.ro. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4275-9344

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2023.2.04

Keywords:

Norwegian language, concrete poems, Jan Erik Vold, visual poem, grammatical poem

Abstract

Jan Erik Vold’s Concrete Poems: A Way to Enhance Students’ Creativity and Grammar Skills in Norwegian. The current paper aims to present the didactic use of the Norwegian concrete poems. The concept of concrete poetry will be approached through Jan Erik Vold’s literary perspective as the promoter of concretism in Norway. In order to prove the effectiveness of these poems in the teaching process, a survey was conducted including a questionnaire with closed-ended and open-ended questions. The respondents were 1st- and 2nd- year students of BA in Norwegian language and literature and a group of 3rd-year students from The Centre for Language Industries, enrolled at the Faculty of Letters, at Babeș-Bolyai University. This research aimed at the effectiveness of using Vold’s concrete poems when teaching specific language structures in Norwegian. Thus, a survey was done at the end of one semester of experiment when I used Jan Erik Vold’s concrete poems for my students during my Norwegian language courses and seminars. The results showed that especially during these seminars students read, analyse and design concrete poems in Norwegian, including grammatical and typographical poems, ready-mades, tongue twisters and nursery-rhymes-like poems, in order to better understand and to revise a specific grammatical, syntactic or lexical structure in Norwegian.

REZUMAT. Poeziile concretiste ale lui Jan Erik Vold: O modalitate de a îmbunătăți creativitatea și competențele gramaticale ale studenților în limba norvegiană. Lucrarea de față își propune să prezinte folosirea în scop didactic a poeziilor concretiste norvegiene. Conceptul de poezie concretistă va fi prezentat prin prisma perspectivei literare pe care o are Jan Erik Vold ca promotor al concretismului în Norvegia. Pentru a dovedi eficacitatea acestor poezii în procesul de predare, am realizat un chestionar format din întrebări cu răspunsuri închise și deschise. Respondenții sunt studenți din anul I și anul al II-lea de studiu, de la Specializarea de limbă și literatură norvegiană, nivel licență și studenți din anul al III-lea de studiu de la Centru pentru Industriile Limbii înscriși la Facultatea de Litere din cadrul Universității Babeș-Bolyai. Scopul acestui studiu este de a sublinia eficacitatea folosirii poeziilor concretiste ale lui Vold în procesul predării limbii norvegiene. Astfel, la finalul semestrului în care am folosit poeziile concretiste ale lui Jan Erik Vold la nivel de experiment, am realizat un chestionar pentru studenții mei de la cursurile și seminarele de limbă norvegiană. Rezultatele au arătat că cel mai adesea în timpul acestor seminare studenții citesc, analizează și compun poezii concretiste în limba norvegiană, de tipul poeziilor tipografice și gramaticale, ready-made, tongue twiters și versuri cu caracter ludic pentru a aprofunda și a recapitula o anumită structură gramaticală, sintactică sau lexicală în limba norvegiană.

Cuvinte-cheie: limba norvegiană, poezii concretiste, Jan Erik Vold, poezia vizuală, poezia gramaticală

Article history: Received 10 February 2023; Revised 8 May 2023; Accepted 30 May 2023; Available online 23 June 2023; Available print 30 June 2023.

Author Biography

Raluca-Daniela DUINEA, Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature, Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Letters, Cluj-Napoca. Email: raluca.radut@ubbcluj.ro.

Raluca-Daniela DUINEA is Senior Lecturer, PhD, of Norwegian at the Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature, Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Letters, Cluj-Napoca. Her research areas include Norwegian contemporary poetry, Jan Erik Vold’s concrete and new simple poetry, Norwegian children’s literature and literary translations. She has published a series of articles on Norwegian contemporary poetry and the book entitled The Poetry of Jan Erik Vold and the Norwegian Lyric Modernism in the 1960s, 2018. In 2023 she translated the first Norwegian-Romanian bilingual anthology Briskeby blues with several selected poems of Jan Erik Vold and the Norwegian novel Er hun din? (Is She Yours?) by Nils-Øivind Haagensen. She is currently working on the translation of Vinternoveller (Winter Stories) by Ingvild H. Rishøi. Email: raluca.radut@ubbcluj.ro.

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2023-06-23

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DUINEA, R.-D. (2023). JAN ERIK VOLD’S CONCRETE POEMS: A WAY TO ENHANCE STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY AND GRAMMAR SKILLS IN NORWEGIAN . Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia, 68(2), 65–84. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2023.2.04

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