Knut Hamsun - The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance

Informationen zum Autor Monika Zagar is associate professor of Scandinavian studies at the University of Minnesota. Klappentext Monika Zagar is associate professor of Scandinavian studies at the University of Minnesota. Zusammenfassung Discusses Knut Hamsun's political and cultural ideas together with an analysis of his highly regarded writing. This book reveals the ways in which messages of racism and sexism appear in plays! fiction! and none-too-subtle nonfiction produced by a prolific author over the course of his long career. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Discourses of Race and Primitivism in Scandinavia 2. Hamsun's Women as Scapegoats for Modernity's Sins 3. Imagining the Indians 4. Imagining Black and White 5. A Taste of the Orient 6. Imagining the Sly Magic "Lapps" 7. Imagining Degeneration and Revolution: The Interwar Period and Occupation 8. The Rhetoric of Defense in Hamsun's Paa gjengrodde stier Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Monika Agar, Monika Zagar
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.2009
• EAN: 9780295989464
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98946-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 228 mm x 23 mm
• Series: New Directions in Scandinavian; New Directions in Scandinavian Studies; New Directions in Scandinavian; Knut Hamsun
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other Germanic linguistics / literary studies