Troubling legacies
Subtitle: migration, modernism and fascism in the case of Knut Hamsun
By: Peter Sjølyst-Jackson
Edition: Paperback ed.
Series: Continuum literary studies
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780826438157; 9781441175823
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: 'Troubling Legacies; analyses the heterogeneous and conflicted legacies of the enigmatic European writer Knut Hamsun. Moving through different phases of his life, this study emphasizes 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-180) and index.
Table of contents: title: 'Kristiania, that strange city': location and dislocation in Hunger; title: Aristocratic radicalism: Nietzsche, Brandes and Strindberg; title: Mysteries and Pan : sex, class and laughter; title: Geographies of the unhomelike: in wonderland and the rhetoric of national rootedness; title: Double monument: Growth of the soil, after the Nobel Prize and Nazism; title: Reading Hamsun, reading Nazism; title: Treacherous testimony: On overgrown paths and the rhetoric of deafness.