migration, modernism, and fascism in the case of Knut Hamsun /
First Statement of Responsibility
Peter Sjølyst-Jackson
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New York :
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Continuum,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2010
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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ix, 186 p. ;
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25 cm
SERIES
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Continuum literary studies
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-180) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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'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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Hamsun, Knut,1859-1952-- Criticism and interpretation