Knut Hamsun
Subtitle: the dark side of literary brilliance
By: by Monika Žagar.
Series: New directions in Scandinavian studies
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780295989457; 9780295989464
Subjects: Hamsun, Knut, -- 1859-1952 -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Discourses of race and primitivism in Scandinavia; title: Hamsun's women as scapegoats for modernity's sins; title: Imagining the Indians; title: Imagining black and white; title: A taste of the orient; title: Imagining the sly magic 'lapps'; title: Imagining degeneration and revolution: the interwar period and occupation; title: The rhetoric of defense in Hamsun's Paa gjengrodde stier.