2025/08/31 by Hahn, Rebecca Kate
#eccentric #indifference #queer
paper · doi:10.18716/ojs/gefo/2009.3155
Taking Isak Dinesen’s short story “The Deluge at Norderney” as its example, this essay explores the ramifications of Ina Schabert’s definition and characterization of the “foot-off-the-ground novel” as a model for thinking eccentric literature. In this, it turns on the idea of indifference as a key component and technique of eccentricity. While in the realm of gender and sexuality “queer” may be a strong rival for the “eccentric,” the essay shows that eccentric indifference follows a logic which sets it apart from the interventionist aesthetics of queer.