Syllabus/achievement requirements

The following books are available for purchase at the Akademika bookstore on the Blindern campus. You will find them in the section for Nordisk (Nordic Literature). Because most of these are published in the UK or US, you may find that it is less expensive to purchase them in advance and bring them with you from your home country.

 

We will read each major text in its entirety, including the introductions.

 

Books

 

  • Solstad, Dag, translated by Sverre Lyngstad. 1994/2006. Shyness and Dignity. London: Harvill Secker. (154 p.)
  • Petterson, Per, translated by Anne Born. 2003/2008. Out Stealing Horses. New York: Picador. (238 p.)
  • Loe, Erlend, translated by Don Barlett and Don Shaw. 2004/2012. Doppler. Toronto: House of Anansi Press. (176 p.)
  • Seierstad, ?sne, translated by Sarah Death. 2013/2015. One of us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway. London: Virago. (544 p.)
  • Ibsen, Henrik, translated by Jens Arup. 1890/2008. “Hedda Gabler” in Four Major Plays. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Introduction by James McFarlane. (pp. vii–xv, 165–264)
  • Hamsun, Knut, translated by Robert Bly. 1890/2008. Hunger. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Introduction by Paul Auster. (272 p.)
  • Undset, Sigrid, translated by Tiina Nunnally. 1911/ 2001. Jenny. In The Unknown Sigrid Undset: Jenny and Other Works. South Royalthon, Vermont: Steerforth Press. Ed. and introduction by Tim Page. (xxx p.)

 

Texts available online

 

  • Hemmer, Bj?rn. 1994. "Ch. 5: Ibsen and the Realistic Problem Drama", i (Red) McFarlane, James, The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen. Cambridge University Press, ss. 68–88
  • Garton, Janet. 1993. "Ch. 6: Sigrid Undset", i Norwegian Women's Writing, 1850–1990. Athlone Press, ss. 106–127
  • Jacobsen, Rolf. 1984. "Marsh Grasses Sway, Dawn Rain & Antenna Forest" i (Red) Johanssen, T.: 20 Contemporary Norwegian Poets. Universitetsforlaget, ss. 25–26, 29, 31
  • Hauge, Olav H. 1984. "Conc Shell, The River Across the Fjord, And I was Sorrow, You Were the Wind & Old Poet has a Go at Being a Modernist", i (Red) Johanssen, T.: 20 Contemporary Norwegian Poets. Universitetsforlaget, ss. 49, 51, 57
  • Vold, Jan Erik. 1984. "what's the light. "5", "12" & Hokusai the Old Master, Who Painted a Wave like Nobody Ever Painted a Wave Before Him", i (Red) Johanssen, T.: 20 Contemporary Norwegian Poets. Universitetsforlaget, ss. 153, 155, 163

 

Compendium

 

  • McFarlane, James. 1989. "Ch. 2: Ibsen and Ibsenism & Ch. 9: Drama and Society", i (Red) McFarlane, James: Ibsen & Meaning. Studies, Essays & Prefaces, 1953–87. Norvik Press, ss. 45–66, 232–250
  • Kittang, Atle. 1985. "Knut Hamsun's "Sult". Psychological Deep Structures and Metapoetic Plot" i (Red) McFarlane, J. & Garton, J.: Facets of European Modernism. University of East Anglia, ss. 295–308
  • Aarseth, Asbj?rn. 1985. "The Modes of Norwegian Modernism" i (Red) McFarlane, J. & Garton, J.: Facets of European Modernism. University of East Anglia, ss. 323–347

 

 

 

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