migration, modernism, and fascism in the case of Knut Hamsun /
Peter Sjølyst-Jackson
New York :
Continuum,
c2010
ix, 186 p. ;
25 cm
Continuum literary studies
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-180) and index
'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
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'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 from such figures as Frank Kafka and Walter Benjamin
Hamsun, Knut,1859-1952-- Criticism and interpretation