Troubling legacies : migration, modernism, and fascism in the case of Knut Hamsun / Peter Sjølyst-Jackson.

'Troubling Legacies; analyses the heterogeneous and conflicted legacies of the enigmatic European writer Knut Hamsun. Moving through different phases of his life, this study emphasises the dislocated nature of Hamsun's works and the diverse and conflicting responses his fiction elicited fr...

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Main Author: Sjølyst-Jackson, Peter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2010.
Series:Continuum literary studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • 'Kristiania, that strange city': location and dislocation in Hunger
  • Aristocratic radicalism: Nietzsche, Brandes and Strindberg
  • Mysteries and Pan : sex, class and laughter
  • Geographies of the unhomelike: in wonderland and the rhetoric of national rootedness
  • Double monument: Growth of the soil, after the Nobel Prize and Nazism
  • Reading Hamsun, reading Nazism
  • Treacherous testimony: On overgrown paths and the rhetoric of deafness.