Hans Kristian Strandstuen Rustad

• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2025). 583IV.12 Posthumanism and Poetry in the Anthropocene. I Benthien, Claudia; Keylin, Vadim & Wehmeier, Henrik (Red.), Poetry in the Digital Age. De Gruyter Mouton. ISSN 9783111704548. s. 583–594. doi: 10.1515/9783111704548-050. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  As a multifaceted and intermedial phenomenon, poetry in the digital age not only demands a rethinking and expansion of the traditional paradigms of literary studies but also attracts increasing attention from other humanities. This interdisciplinary handbook is thus addressed both to literary scholars and to the broadest academic audience interested in contemporary poetry research. It offers 50 contributions by an international collective of authors that highlight the diversity of contemporary poetry, examining it from a wide variety of complementing theoretical and methodological angles. The handbook focuses on contemporary modes of poetry presentation that are often located beyond the book, e.g., on stages, in public spaces, as multi- as well as transmedia publications, or on digital platforms. Such intermedial poetic practices, which may supplement poetic language with elements borrowed from music, visual art, cinema, or theater and performance, are transforming the forms and functions of poetry. It four parts thus (1) adapt established concepts and parameters of poetry research to the digital age, (2) explore established genres and emerging formats, (3) introduce interdisciplinary perspectives and new research fields, and (4) engage in current debates.

• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2025). National Identity and Nomadic Subjectivity in Norwegian War Poetry. Humanities. 14(11). doi: 10.3390/h14110208. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article aims to explore how subjectivity is portrayed and reflected in Norwegian poetry on World War II and post-2000 wars. The material will include only a small number of anthologized poems from World War II by the poets Arnulf Øverland, Inger Hagerup, and Nordahl Grieg, and contemporary war poetry by Priya Bains and Pedro Carmona-Alvarez. It suggests that Norwegian World War II poems often exhibit a fixed rhythm, include rhymes, and emphasize national identity, utilizing binary oppositions such as “we”–“the others,” “friend”–“enemy”. In contrast, contemporary Norwegian war poetry seems to feature structures that reflect global, nomadic subjectivities. These contemporary works may engage more with fluid identities and intricate networks of connection, moving beyond the rigid dichotomies seen in earlier war poetry in Norway. These insights suggest a shift in how poets express and conceptualize war, influenced by changing global dynamics and understandings of identity and subjectivity.

• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2025). Gyrðir Elíassons spøkelser og lyrikkens hauntologi. Nordisk samtidspoesi. ISSN 2387-452X. 12, s. 191–213. doi: https:/omp.novus.no/index.php/novus/catalog/view/40/66/1287. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2024). Hødnebøs pendel. Stemme og mening i Pendel. I Karlsen, Ole; Kvinnsland, Ranveig & Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (Red.), Nordisk samtidspoesi: Tone Hødnebøs forfatterskap. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788283901313. s. 85–108. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen; Mønster, Louise & Schmidt, Michael Kallesøe (2024). What is Poetry Reading? Ten Theses. I Matter, Marc; Wehmeier, Henrik & Wollf, Clara Cosima (Red.), Audioliterary Poetry Between Performance and Mediatization. Audioliterale Lyrik Zwischen Performance und Mediatisierung.. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9783111561059. s. 25–46. doi: 10.1515/9783111561356-002. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In recent years, poetry reading has become a common way of performing and experiencing poetry (cf. Middleton 2005, 7; Nyberg 2013, 32; Serup 2018, 137; Pedersen 2019, 27), whether it takes place at cafés, libraries, literature festivals, or digital platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.1 In other words, poetry reading plays a significant role in the current development of literature. Today’s literary field is characterized by an extroverted and collectively oriented event culture (cf. Knudsen and Jerne 2019) and the explosive growth of digital media has offered new opportunities for production, distribution, and consumption of literature, including poetry. The significant increase in poetry readings – on stage and online – indicates a longing after participation in aesthetically defined communities; but what are the defining features of poetry reading, and which community-forming potentials do they have? Below, we will attempt to answer these questions, as we draw on our larger study within the field (cf. Mønster, Rustad, and Schmidt 2022a). This article is organized in ten theses focusing on the constituent aspects of poetry reading and the ways in which it encourages interaction, response, cocreation, and community in a broad sense. It contributes to the rather limited research in the western world that exists on poetry reading (see e.g. Bernstein 1998; Middleton 2005; Novak 2011; Nyberg 2013; Serup 2018), while expanding the field of interest in primarily two ways: partly by examining a wide array of poetry readings across both physically and digitally based poetic meeting places, partly by taking an interest in the communities that flourish in and around various forums of poetry reading. Since we have conducted our fieldwork in Denmark and Norway, all examples are Scandinavian, yet the conclusions below are principal and apply to poetry reading in many other contexts.

• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2024). Lyrique au Scandinavique: Lyrikk/lyrik/lyrik. Poesi/poesi/poesi. Dikt/dikt/digt. I Rodriguez, Antonio (Red.), Dictionnaire du lyrique. Poésie, arts, médias. Classiques Garnier. ISSN 9782406159735. doi: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-15975-9.p.0017. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2023). ‘the mystery from the world.’ Økologisk fellesskap i Björks Biophia. I Iversen, Kristina Leganger; Mjaaland, Marius Gunnar Timmann & Oxfeldt, Elisabeth (Red.), Naturen som gave? Tvisyn på naturen i nordisk litteratur. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215064567. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2023). Diktet opplest. Tre forståelser. Kritiker : nordisk tidskrift för litterär kritik och essäistik = nordisk tidsskrift for litterær kritik og essayistik = nordisk tidsskrift for litterær kritikk of essayistikk. ISSN 1104-196X. s. 170–180. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2022). Emosjon og følelse i dikt av Kristin Berget og Inger Elisabeth Hansen. I Barlyng, Marianne (Red.), Solen er ligeglad. Er litteraturen?. Forlaget Spring. ISSN 9788794165099. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2022). Instagramdikt og plattformlogikk. I Eliassen, Knut Ove; Ogundipe, Anne & Prytz, Øyvind (Red.), Estetiske praksiser i den digitale produksjonens tidsalder. Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 9788245043501. s. 185–221. doi: 10.55669/oa140505. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Mønster, Louise; Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen & Schmidt, Michael Kallesøe (2022). Ti teser om digtoplæsninger og fællesskaber. I Fieldseth, Melanie Susan; Stien, Hanne Hammer & Veiteberg, Jorunn (Red.), Kunstskapte fellesskap. Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 9788245041712. s. 209–238. doi: 10.55669/oa130507. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Takle, Cecilie Cathrine & Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2021). Tove Janssons bildebok Vem ska trösta knyttet? som heltedikt. Barnboken. ISSN 0347-772X. 44. doi: 10.14811/clr.v44.627. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Tove Jansson’s Picturebook Who Will Comfort Toffle? as a Heroic Poem
 This article offers an analysis of Tove Jansson’s picturebook Vem ska trösta knyttet? (Who Will Comfort Toffle?) from 1960 as a heroic poem and dramatic monologue, representing an alternative reading to earlier studies of this picturebook as a coherent narrative. Drawing on theory about heroic poetry, poetry and picturebook analysis, we provide a reading that expands those interpretations of Vem ska trösta knyttet? that emphasize the romantic and psychological projects of the book when read as a narrative story. By reading Vem ska trösta knyttet? as a heroic poem, we explore the text as an uttered, ritualistic, and iterative event rather than solely a narrative with fictional characters. Read in the tradition of the heroic poem, Toffle is (still) the hero, where lyrical language and structures allow the reader to remember and retell the poem, letting Toffle’s deeds live on beyond the alleged time of events and the performative declaration by Toffle.

• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2020). Poesi som alternativ. Om lys og håp i Vekta av lyset (2013). I Karlsen, Ole & Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (Red.), Nordisk samtidspoesi. Hanne Bramness´forfatterskap. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788283900361. s. 143–160. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2020). Følte steder. Om fotografiers dype overflate i Wim Wenders' Places, Strange and Quiet. I Gardfors, Johan; Jansson, Mats & Olsson, Nils (Red.), Att skriva med ljus. 13 essäer om litteratur och fotografi.. Makadam Förlag. ISSN 9789170613111. s. 269–289. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2020). Digital astro-evolution and ecological thinking in Johannes Heldén's Astroecology. I Hermansson, Gunilla & Jørgensen, Jens Lohfert (Red.), Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary History. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027207890. s. 319–335. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2019). Krise og kropp. Samtidsdikt om flyktningkrisen. I Aarvik, Trude-Kristin Mjelde; Skorgen, Torgeir & Vassenden, Eirik (Red.), Undergang og utopi : poesi i krisetider. Alvheim og Eide Akademisk forlag. ISSN 9788293690047. s. 115–133. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2019). "Tilfangetatt evighet". Hans Børlis møte med visuell kunst i dikt. I Karlsen, Ole (Red.), Djupsnøen er en kvit forbannelse : om Hans Børlis lyrikk. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788283900217. s. 69–86. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2019). Nordisk rap-lyrikk. En lesning av fire politiske tekster. I Andersen, Hadle Oftedal & Madsen, Claus (Red.), Nye posisjoner i poplyrikk. Modernisme i nordisk lyrikk 11. Alvheim og Eide Akademisk forlag. ISSN 9788293690023. s. 13–36. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2019). Flyktningkrisen nå! Om interaksjonelle strategier i Peter-Clement Woetmanns Bag bakkerne, kysten. En klagesang. I Jørgensen, Jens L.; Mønster, Louise & Schmidt, Michael (Red.), En ny kritik. Forlaget Spring. ISSN 9788793358706. s. 172–186. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2018). Lyrikk, medier og den andres smerte. Om noen ekfraser i Ghayath Almadhouns og Marie Silkebergs diktning. Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap. ISSN 1104-0556. s. 66–78. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The article discusses ekphrases and the mediations of the pain of others in the poetry of Ghayath Almadhoun and Marie Silkeberg. One aspect that is explored is the relationship between poetry and visual media like film and photography in the study of ekphrasis. Another main aspect discussed is the role of the ekphrasis in mediated depiction of pain, suffering, oppression, and conflicts that take place in a distance from the experienced (and privileged) subject. These two aspects are brought together in a reading of three ekphrases, two ekphrases in Almadhoun and Silkeberg’s poetry book Till Damaskus (2014), and one ekphrasis in Silkeberg’s poetry book Atlantis (2017). The reading shows how Almadhoun and Silkeberg use visual media as a marker of the subjects’ absence, as a medium for the memory of oppression, suffering, and the pain of others, and as a source for the poems and the poets’ exile language.

• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen & Karlsen, Ole (2017). Samtidslyrikk? I Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen & Karlsen, Ole (Red.), Nordisk samtidslyrik. Aalborg Universitetsforlag. ISSN 9788771126297. s. 7–13. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2017). "Jeg er en forfatter som fotograferer". Om poesi, fotografi og det umulige ved å skrive selvbiografisk i Tomas Espedals Mitt privatliv (2014). I Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen & Karlsen, Ole (Red.), Nordisk samtidslyrik. Aalborg Universitetsforlag. ISSN 9788771126297. s. 103–124. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2017). What also could poetry be? Technogenesis in Johannes Heldén’s Evolution. I Kjerkegaard, Stefan & Ringgaard, Dan (Red.), Dialogues on Poetry. Mediatization and New Sensibilities. Aalborg Universitetsforlag. ISSN 9788771126501. s. 111–126. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2017). Ekfrasen som opplevelse. Estetisk og eksistensiell erfaring i noen dikt av Tua Forsström. I Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (Red.), Nordisk samtidspoesi. Tua Forsströms forfatterskap. Oplandske Bokforlag. ISSN 9788275182522. s. 182–199. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2017). Vendinger, eller å snu verden mot verden. Poetisk engasjement i Forfatternes klimaaksjon. I Larsen, Peter Stein; Mønster, Louise & Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (Red.), Økopoesi. Alvheim og Eide Akademisk forlag. ISSN 9788290359978. s. 135–158. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2017). 'var inte rädd lilla hare'. Noen betraktninger om poetikk og etikk i Tua Forsströms lyrikk. I Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (Red.), Nordisk samtidspoesi. Tua Forsströms forfatterskap. Oplandske Bokforlag. ISSN 9788275182522. s. 8–23. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2016). Å lage poetiske bilder av fotografier. Om noen ekfraser i Cecilie Løveids diktning. I Karlsen, Ole (Red.), Cecilie Løveids forfatterskap. Oplandske Bokforlag. ISSN 9788275182409. s. 158–173. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2016). Klasse, politikk og poesi - arbeidsskjema som erkjennelses- og langdiktsform i nyere arbeiderpoesi. I Lilja, Eva; Hansen, Bergur Djurhuus & Vest, Rasmus Dahl (Red.), Långa dikter : Berättelse, experiment, politik. Alvheim og Eide Akademisk forlag. ISSN 9788290359947. s. 69–91. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen & Skaret, Anne (2015). Litteratur og medier: nye perspektiver på Alf Prøysens kunstnerskap. I Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen & Skaret, Anne (Red.), Alf Prøysen, kunsten og mediene. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270998258. s. 9–28. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2015). Trost i taklampa som filmisk roman. I Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen & Skaret, Anne (Red.), Alf Prøysen, kunsten og mediene. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270998258. s. 71–89. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2015). Maskindikt og teknopoetikk i Øyvind Bergs Hva ville maskina ha sagt. Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. ISSN 0013-0818. 115(2), s. 136–148. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2015). Hanne Bramness' lyrikk for barn og unge og langdiktet. I Skaret, Anne (Red.), Barnelyrikk: en antologi. Oplandske Bokforlag. ISSN 9788275182300. s. 52–69. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2015). Nedbrytning av ekfrasen som maskulin sjanger? Framstilling av kjønn og makt i noen fotoekfraser av Hanne Bramness og Janus Kodal. I Alfredsson, Johan; Andersen, Hadle Oftedal & Kemp, Susanne (Red.), Kjønnskrift/Kønskrift/Könskrift. Alvheim og Eide Akademisk forlag. ISSN 9788290359923. s. 101–122. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2015). Fotografi som meditasjonspunkt i Paal-Helge Haugens "Seks stader". I Langås, Unni (Red.), Poesi på alle kantar. Festskrift til Paal-Helge Haugen. Cappelen Damm AS. ISSN 9788202448622. s. 185–197. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Festskriftet består av vitenskapelige artikler, essays og skjønnlitteratur og er en hyllest til forfatteren Paal-Helge Haugen på 70-årsdagen.

• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2014). Dikterens forsøk i mørkerommet. Poesi og fotografi i noen dikt av Hanne Bramness. I Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen & Wærp, Henning Howlid (Red.), Fra Wergeland til Knausgård. Lesninger i nordisk litteratur. Akademika forlag. ISSN 9788232102440. s. 117–131. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2014). ”Og så stansa jeg litt, og så tenkte jeg”. Fascinasjon og tenkning i møte med moderne maskiner i Alf Prøysens ”Mot nye tider”. Barnboken. ISSN 0347-772X. 37. doi: 10.14811/clr.v37i0.184. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Abstract: The Norwegian author Alf Prøysen made use of a number of different media technologies in the production and distribution of his literature for children. But more than that, in some of these stories he also reflected upon modern technology in general. This is the case in his collection of short stories for children, Da jeg var liten (When I was a Child). Here Prøysen emphasises how child protagonists perceive modern technology such as cars, airplanes, and tractors, in a rural setting in the 1920s, with both fascination and anxiety. Still, at the end of the story the protagonist, Alf, exceeds both of these responses when he reflects on the “real” meaning of technology, and comes to the conclusion that nature can create miracles and do things that modern technology cannot. The article discusses how Prøysen’s presentation of modern technologies in Da jeg var liten can be regarded as literary techno-critique, arguing that the protagonist’s change of perception can be interpreted as a shift from what Martin Heidegger more in general has called ”calculative thinking” to that of ”meditative thinking”.

• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2014). Mrs Pepperpot and Modern Technology: Empowerment and Techno-Poetics in "Mrs Pepperpot's Outing. I Lassén-Seger, Maria & Skaret, Anne (Red.), Empowering Transformations: Mrs Pepperpot Revisited. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISSN 9781443856997. s. 59–68. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This study provides a range of critical essays on Norwegian author Alf Prøysen’s classic Mrs Pepperpot stories. Written by experts in the field, Prøysen’s feisty little old lady is explored in dialogue with recent theorising in order to broaden and deepen our understanding of her enduring popularity.

• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2013). (In-)Between Word, Image and Sound: Cultural Encounter in Flight Paths. I Bell, Alice; Ensslin, Astrid & Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (Red.), Analyzing Digital Fiction. Routledge. ISSN 9780415656153. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bell, Alice; Ensslin, Astrid & Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2013). From Theorizing to Analyzing Digital Fiction. I Bell, Alice; Ensslin, Astrid & Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (Red.), Analyzing Digital Fiction. Routledge. ISSN 9780415656153. s. 3–21. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2013). Lyd i digital poesi. Kropp og gestus i I mellom tiden. I Karlsen, Ole (Red.), Nordisk samtidspoesi. Særlig forholdet mellom musikk og lyrikk. Oplandske Bokforlag. ISSN 9788275182089. s. 185–208. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2013). Digital poesi og materialitet. Passage. ISSN 0901-8883. 69. doi: 10.7146/pas.v28i69.17581. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2012). A short history of electronic literature and communities in the Nordic countries. Dichtung-Digital. 41(1). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2011). Litterære eksperimenteringer i digitale medier. Norsk elektronisk litteratur gjennom en avantgardeoptik, Norsk avantgarde. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270996490. s. 443–454. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2010). Møter med den/det andre i dikt av Åsmund Sveen. I Rustad, Hans Kristian (Red.), "der vårgras brydder" - Nye lesninger av Åsmund Sveens diktning. Oplandske Bokforlag. ISSN 9788275181792. s. 109–131. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2010). Når litteratur går fra papir til skjerm : lys/mørke som remodalisert tekst. I Engebretsen, Martin (Red.), Skrift/Bilde/Lyd: Analyse av sammensatte tekster. Cappelen Damm Høyskoleforlaget. ISSN 9788276348583. s. 224–242. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bell, Alice; Ensslin, Astrid; Ciccoricco, David; Rustad, Hans Kristian; Laccetti, Jessica & Pressman, Jessica (2010). A S[c]reed for Digital Fiction. Electronic Book Review (EBR). 12(1), s. 12–12. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2010). Nordic electronic literature. Tradition, Archiving, and Cultural Valuation. Spiel. Siegener Periodicum zur Internationalen Empirischen Literaturwissenschaft. ISSN 0722-7833. 29(01.feb), s. 247–254. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2009). A four-sided model for reading hypertext fiction. Hyperrhiz: New Media Culture. 6(1), s. 1–17. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Klastrup, Lisbeth; Wærp, Henning Howlid & Rustad, Hans Kristian (2008). Hans Kristian Rustad: Tekstspill i hypertekst : koherensopplevelse og sjangergjenkjennelse i lesing av multimodale hyperfiksjoner doktordisputas, Universitetet i Agder, 27. mars 2008. Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. ISSN 0013-0818. s. 259–295. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2008). Elektronisk litteratur i Norden Nordisk hyperteksttradisjon i lys av internasjonal hypertekstfiksjonshistorikk. K&K: kultur og klasse. ISSN 0905-6998. 106(2), s. 27–27. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Electronic literature, both international Nordic, emerged in the late 1980¿s. Since then electronic literature in the Nordic countries has evolved, more or less in interaction with an international development and tradition, and more or less in interaction with other Nordic works. Despite the fact that this literary tradition has existed for more than two decades, researchers and scholars in the field of electronic literature and new media studies have been more oriented towards international works and paid less attention to works written in a Nordic language. This article offers an account for electronic literature in the Nordic countries, and emphasise characteristic features of this tradition, as well as showing how, and to what extent, this tradition reflects the expansion of the international field of electronic literature. The article gives surveys and analyses of works which have played a significant role in the development of this literary tradition in the Nordic area. Among the works that I put particularly weight on are Karl Erik Tallmo¿s Iakttagarens förmåga att ingripa, Anne Bang-Steinsvik¿s I mellom tiden and Sonja Thomsen¿s Ingen elge på vejen den dag. Other works that are considered are positioned in regards to the international tradition and are observed in relation to other contemporary electronic works in the Nordic countries. My contribution to current research on electronic literature, as well as to research on literature in general, is both a survey and an argument of the existence of a significant tradition of Nordic electronic literature, qualitatively and quantitatively. What I suggest is that these works, and this tradition, need to be focused on. We should not overlook the opportunities for aesthetic experiences which are offered by Nordic electronic literature. And since this tradition exist and is part of a broader literary and artistic culture, any academic program, which ambitions are to cover the field of comparative or national literature and art, should pay attention to and include this tradition.

• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2008). Tekstspill i hypertekst. Koherensopplevelse og sjangergjenkjennelse i lesing av multimodale hyperfiksjoner : svar fra doktoranden. Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. ISSN 0013-0818. 108(3), s. 285–295. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2005). Det fiktive som affordanse i elektronisk litteratur en tilnærming til hypertekst via Wolfgang Iser. Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. ISSN 0013-0818. s. 274–286. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Karlsen, Ole; Kvinnsland, Ranveig & Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2024). Nordisk samtidspoesi: Tone Hødnebøs forfatterskap. Novus Forlag. ISBN 9788283901313. 256 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2023). Situating Scandinavian Poetry in the Computational Network Environment. De Gruyter Brill. ISBN 9783111003863. 230 s. doi: 10.1515/9783111004075. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  How to grasp poetry in its contemporary digital situation, a situation wherein poetry travels across digital and analoge media platforms and intended or not collaborates with computers? Situating Scandinavian Poetry in the Computational Network environment investigates how heterogeneous forms of poetry in Scandinavia interact with and work in a digital media environment, how digital programmable and network media intervene with and shape new poetic forms or remediate older forms of poetry, and how digital and digitalized poetry through its self-reflexivity sheds light on digital media technology and its role for poetry and potentially for literature and aesthetics more in general. In doing so, it also argues for the importance of close reading poetry in digital media. It includes an historical and theoretical approach to poetry in digital media and analysis of poetic works in Scandinavia. The book is written within the framework of posthumanism and what N. Katerine Hayles calls "technogenesis", and makes up the argument that contemporary poetry constitutes and is constituted by a computational network environment of human and non-human subjects, wherein poems travels in an egalitarian media ecology . The book is relevant for researchers and students in the field of poetry, students and researchers in the field of literary studies, media studies and digital culture studies, and teachers interested in presenting newer forms of poetry for their students.

• Mønster, Louise; Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen & Schmidt, Michael Kallesøe (2022). Digtoplæsning. Former og fællesskaber. Fagbokforlaget. ISBN 9788245040920. 255 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Karlsen, Ole & Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2020). Nordisk samtidspoesi. Hanne Bramness´forfatterskap. Novus Forlag. ISBN 9788283900361. 260 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Andersen, Tore Rye; Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen; Bruhn, Jørgen; Christensen, Nina; Kjerkegaard, Stefan & Linkis, Sara Tanderup [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2018). Litteratur mellem medier. Aarhus Universitetsforlag. ISBN 9788771248562. 384 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen & Karlsen, Ole (2017). Nordisk samtidslyrik. Aalborg Universitetsforlag. ISBN 9788771126297. 240 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2017). Fotopoetikk : om dikt og fotografi i norsk lyrikk. Novus Forlag. ISBN 9788270998944. 229 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2017). Nordisk samtidspoesi. Tua Forsströms forfatterskap. Oplandske Bokforlag. ISBN 9788275182522. 202 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Larsen, Peter Stein; Mønster, Louise & Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2017). Økopoesi. Alvheim og Eide Akademisk forlag. ISBN 9788290359978. 193 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen & Skaret, Anne (2015). Alf Prøysen, kunsten og mediene. Novus Forlag. ISBN 9788270998258. 190 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen & Wærp, Henning Howlid (2014). Fra Wergeland til Knausgård. Lesninger i nordisk litteratur. Akademika forlag. ISBN 9788232102440. 497 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bell, Alice; Ensslin, Astrid & Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2013). Analyzing Digital Fiction. Routledge. ISBN 9780415656153. 204 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2012). Digital litteratur. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISBN 9788202372712. 116 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2010). "der vårgras brydder" - Nye lesninger av Åsmund Sveens diktning. Oplandske Bokforlag. ISBN 9788275181792. 249 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2025). Grenser, kaos, kunst og skaping! I Samtale med Sara Louise Gjelsvik West. Litteraturtidsskriftet Lasso. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2025). Naturen på den andre siden av tenkning. Om utsatthet og ritualer – og brødbaking – i Kristin Bergets Middelalderen (2024). Bøygen: Organ for nordisk språk og litteratur. ISSN 0806-8623. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2025). Jakob Lien, Maskintekstar. Sammankopplingar av människan och det digitala i svensk litteratur 1965-1980. Samlaren: tidsskrift för forskning om svensk och annan nordisk litteratur. ISSN 0348-6133. 145. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Karlsen, Ole; Kvinnsland, Ranveig & Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2024). "Det besværlige må knytes opp." Innledende bemerkninger. I Karlsen, Ole; Kvinnsland, Ranveig & Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (Red.), Nordisk samtidspoesi: Tone Hødnebøs forfatterskap. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788283901313. s. 9–14. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2020). Comme en prenant des photographies. La poésie contemporaine au-delà de l’ekphrasis moderne. Lyricology. A Reader. 1(1). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Festøy, Elin; Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen & Kukkonen, Karin (2019). Litteraturscena: De nye fortellingene. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2017). Fra hiphop til romantikk: tid for lyrikk. [Internet]. Universitetsforlagets Ublogg. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2017). “The poem is the poem, not its paraphrase.” Anmeldelse av Robert Sheppards The Meaning of Form in Contemporary Innovative Poetry. Nordisk poesi – Tidsskrift for lyrikkforskning. 2(2). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen & Forsström, Tua (2017). 'Hur ska hjärtat vara i världen och världen i hjärtat'. En samtale. I Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (Red.), Nordisk samtidspoesi. Tua Forsströms forfatterskap. Oplandske Bokforlag. ISSN 9788275182522. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Larsen, Peter Stein; Mønster, Louise & Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2017). Indledning. I Larsen, Peter Stein; Mønster, Louise & Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (Red.), Økopoesi. Alvheim og Eide Akademisk forlag. ISSN 9788290359978. s. 7–14. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wærp, Henning Howlid & Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2014). Innledning. I Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen & Wærp, Henning Howlid (Red.), Fra Wergeland til Knausgård. Lesninger i nordisk litteratur. Akademika forlag. ISSN 9788232102440. s. 3–4. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2014). Digital litteratur. Del I: Problemer, teorier og metoder. Del II: Hva poesi også kan være? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2014). Tekst, fotografi og montasje. Fotopoesi i Paal-Helge Haugens installasjon Novel on visible white (1969). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2014). Photopoetry? Photography and media sensibility in the early poems of Paal-Helge Haugen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2014). Alf Prøysens litteratur: for «spesielt interesserte» og «nerder»? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2012). Can the Web Save the Book? A Reply to Curtis White's The Latest Word. Electronic Book Review (EBR). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2012). Digital litteratur. Remediert, på tvers eller imellom medier? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2010). Electronic literature in Scandinavia. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2010). Digital aesthetics. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Et foredrag om tilnærming til digital litteratur fra et estetisk-teoretisk perspektiv, holdt på ph.d.-kurset CEDAR.

• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2009). ?Reading Megan Heyward?s Of day. Of night? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2009). ?An aesthetic approach to multimodal texts? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2009). ?Remediering og remodalisering i digitale medier? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2009). Møte. Natur og den andre i Åsmund Sveens lyrikk. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2008). Språklig mangfold på nett. s. 1–1. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2008). Flere vil studere Språk, kultur og digital kommunikasjon ved Høgskolen i Hedmark. s. 1–1. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2008). "Semantisation, exploration, self-reflection and absorption. Four modes of reading hypertext fiction". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  How do we read hypertext fiction? The question has been widely explored (Moulthrop 1991; Kaplan and Moulthrop 1991; Snyder 1997; Miall and Dobson 2001; Ryan 2001; Gardner 2003; Gunder 2004; Landow 2006; Mangen 2006; Page 2006) and there seems to be a consensus regarding the reader¿s experience of hypertext fiction. Many critics actually claim that reading hypertext fiction generates frustration and insecurity. These and other studies describe how their readers react on and respond to hypertext fiction, but, as I see it, they partly fail in that they put too much weight on the reader¿s responds and hardly no weight on the fact that hypertext fiction just like print fiction encourage or prefigure different responses and different modes of reading. The consequence is that these studies suffers from limitations witch lessen their valuable contribution to our knowledge about reading hypertext fiction. One reason for this might be that hypertext theory lacks established concepts for describing response structures that encourage different modes of reading. By evolving concepts for unfolding the preconditions for reading hypertext fiction, we might gain a more nuanced picture of the process of reading hypertexts. My contribution to the current research on the reading of hypertext fiction is a presentation of how fundamental aspects of reading, such as preconditions for interactivity, coherence experience and genre recognition, can be understood as prefigured in different hypertext fiction. Four modes of reading hypertext fiction are identified and described. These modes may arise from the interrelationship of two dimensions of reading activity: intentionality versus non-intentionality, and reality-orientation versus subversion-orientation. These dimensions of reading activity are explored in relation to three significant aspects in the reading process: interactivity, experience of coherence, and genre recognition. The four modes of reading hypertext fiction are discussed in relation to relevant concepts regarding the reading process in print literature (Wolfgang Iser 1993), and from theory of MUD players (Richard Bartle 1996). In the paper I will put weight on analyses of Scandinavian hypertext fiction, like Anne Bang-Steinsvik¿s I mellom tiden (2003) and Ingen elge på vejen den dag (2001) by Sonja Thomsen, to identify modes of reading these hypertext fiction. The analyses also offer an explanation for why hypertext fiction in some cases might be regarded in a continuum with print literature, and in other cases regarded as in oppose to (or at war with) institutionalised genres and conventions in print literature.

• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2008). "Played by Hyperfiction. Modes of Reading Megan Heyward's Of day of night". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  How do we read digital literature? I want to approach the topic by studying how electronic literature prefigures the reader's response. The aim of this paper is to explore some of the preconditions for reading electronic literature. I argue that electronic literature might be considered as a text game, in Wolfgang Iser's sense, and that different work prefigures different attitudes towards reading. The attitudes regarding reading, or modes of reading, I will focus on the semantic orientation of reading, aesthetic enjoyment, a mode of gaining experience, and absorption of the reader.

• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2008). Elektronisk litteratur og elektroniske leseskjermer. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2008). Interruption of the narrative progression. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Digital technology offers new possibilities for the use of different modalities in hypertext narratives. This suggests the need to re-evaluate our understanding of the genre narrative, and our understanding of the reading of these narratives. Here I highlight some consequences of the multimodal aspects in hypertext narratives. I will suggest a supplementary concept of time, alongside the more familiar linear time, in these narratives. This supplementary concept of time might be called punctual time (Conf. Johansen 1989). The need for a different concept of time is related to the fact that in multimodal hypertext narratives (and in other kinds of multimodal narratives as well) there is a combination of two different ways of organizing the semiotic resources (Kress og Leeuwen 2001; Kress 2003): semiotic resources organized in time, making the text sequentially, and semiotic resources organized in virtual space, making the text into an object. It is my claim that when hypertext narratives become multimodal, they also become objects. Drawing on examples from different multimodal hypertext narratives, I conclude that multimodality in hypertext narratives foregrounds the punctual time and temporarily leaves the linear time in the background.

• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2007). Narrative and digital fiction. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  15 min introduction and contribution to a roundtable discussion on the current state of the narrative research on digital fiction and the relation between narrative theory and digital fiction

• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2007). The Interruption of the Narrative Progression: Poetic Function and Defamiliarization in Multimodal Hyperfiction. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2006). En fortelling om tid og utid. En lesning av hyperfortellingen I mellom tiden. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Vibeto, Håvard Andreas; Brinch, Sara & Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (2022). Dataspillets spillverdener: En undersøkelse av audiovisuelle virkemidler som innganger til spillopplevelser. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet. ISSN 9788232651702. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  English summary The dissertation highlights the audiovisual experience found in a videogame, with a focus on sound and image. The research statement revolves around how the videogame's audiovisual means used in game worlds create different forms of gaming experiences. The starting point for the research statement is the difference between how the gaming industry, players and gameresearchers emphasize the audiovisual dimension of videogames. On the one hand, the gaming industry and players often gives the videogame’s audiovisual properties a great value because it can offer new sensual experiences. On the other hand, in a historical perspective, game research and game design literature have been less concerned with the audiovisual quality of videogames. The dissertation claims that games studies and gamedesign literature has, in part, neglected the role of audiovisual means has on the gaming experience, a neglect that has led to the understanding of videogames as an object of sensory attention with some blindspots when it comes to how a player experiences a videogame. Playing a videogame is an audiovisual experience of the ontological properties of the videogame, which shapes the different gaming experiences the player can achieve. The dissertation is based on five types of gaming experiences and develops them as analytical perspectives. The gaming experiences studied are immersion as absorption, immersion as presence, spatial immersion, embodiment and gamefeel. All of these five experiences are largely dependent on the videogame’s audiovisual means to be realized and create different viewing positions, which also affects how the player senses what is happening on the screen. The project is primarily based on the text analysis of three videogames: Minecraft, Battlefield 3 and Limbo. The analysis is linked to one basic element found in almost all videogames, namely the game world. The game world is staged with a multitude of audiovisual means and convey many of the formal features of the videogame. The analyses centred the game world have a focus on space. The space in videogames is largely an audiovisual sensory experience and it has a great deal of opportunity to trigger different gaming experiences. Space also adds an important element to the gaming world and the audiovisual experience of it, namely the journey, which is present in all my three vidoegames. In addition to these two elements, the dissertation also contains analyses with emphasis on visual effects and moods that are also present as an audiovisual sensory phenomenon in the gaming world. The dissertation argues through these audiovisual analyzes why it is important to reflect on and analyze the gameworld's use of audiovisual means to better understand how the videogame functions as an object of experience that creates various forms of game experiences, both related to gameplay but also as an aesthetic element in itself that provides important sensory experiences.

• Rustad, Hans Kristian (2008). Tekstspill i hypertekst Koherensopplevelse og sjangergjenkjennelse i lesing av multimodale hyperfiksjoner. Universitetet i Agder. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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