Syllabus/achievement requirements

Primary texts

Camilla Collett: Essays

Knut Hamsun: Hunger (Sult, 1890)

Ludvig Holberg: Jeppe of the Hill (Jeppe paa Bjerget, 1722)

Henrik Ibsen: A Doll¡¯s House (Et dukkehjem, 1879)

Karl Ove Knausg?rd: My Struggle 2 (Min kamp 2, 2011)

Karl Ove Knausg?rd: My Saga Part 1+2 (2015)

Secondary Texts (Course Reader/Kompendium)

Helland, Frode (2015): ¡°Three Chinese Dolls¡±, Ibsen in practice. Relational readings of performance, cultural encounters and power. London: Bloomsbury, 119-173.

Holm, Bent (1994): ¡°Ludvig Holberg and his Double: Holberg in Scandinavia¡±, Ludvig Holberg. A European Writer. A Study in Influence and Reception, edited by Sven H. Rossel. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 191-225.

Klok, Janke (2009): ¡±From our European Correspondent ¨C Camilla Collett (1813-1895) and Cultural Transmission¡±, From Darwin to Weil. Women as Transmitters of Ideas, edited by Petra Broomans. Groningen: Barkhuis, 21-45.

Marker, Frederick J. & Lise-Lone Marker (1996): A History of Scandinavian Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 50-70.

N?ss, Harald (1993): ¡±Beginnings of the Norwegian Novel: Hansen and Collett¡±. A History of Norwegian Literature, edited by Harald N?ss. Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 102-106.

Rem, Tore (2006): ¡°Ibsen as World Literature: Matters for Exploration¡°, The Living Ibsen. Proceedings¨CThe 11th International Ibsen Conference, 21-27 August 2006, edited by Frode Helland et al. Oslo: Unipub/Centre for Ibsen Studies,13-20.

Rossel, Sven Hakon (1994): ¡°Ludvig Holberg: The Cosmopolitan. A Monographic Sketch¡±, Ludvig Holberg. A European Writer. A Study in Influence and Reception, edited by Sven H. Rossel. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1-40.

Secondary Texts (Online Sources)

Bartlett, Tom (2016): ¡°A Norse God Among the Lit-Critters¡°, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 14, 2016.

Eugenides, Jeffrey (2015): ¡°Norwegian Woods¡±, The New York Times Book Review, April 26, 2015.

Garton, Janet (1993): ¡±Camilla Collett (1813-95)¡±, Norwegian Women¡¯s Writing 1850-1990. London & Atlantic Highlands: Athlone, 27-45.

Hustvedt, Siri (2015): ¡°Knausgaard Writes Like a Woman¡±, Literary Hub, December 10, 2015.

Klok, Janke (2010): ¡±Revolutionary Voices: Nordic Women Writers and the Development of Female Urban Prose 1860¨C1900¡±, Feminist Review 96, 74-88.

Puchner, Martin (2013): ¡°Goethe, Marx, Ibsen and the Creation of a World Literature¡°. Ibsen Studies 13:1, 28-46.

Rossi, Riikka (2010): ¡°The Everyday in Nordic Modernism: Knut Hamsun¡¯s Sult and Maria Jotuni¡¯s arkiel?m??, Scandinavian Studies 82:4, 417-38.

Sandberg, Mark B. (1999): ¡°Writing on the Wall: The Language of Advertising in Knut Hamsun¡¯s Sult¡±, Scandinavian Studies 71:3, 265-96.

Sandberg, Mark B. (2001): ¡°Ibsen and the Mimetic Home of Modernity¡°. Ibsen Studies 1:2, 32-58.

Shapiro, Eben (2014): ¡°Arts & Entertainment: A Hit in Translation ¨C Small Publisher In Brooklyn Scores A Literary Coup¡±, Wall Street Journal, June 14, 2014.

Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten (2006): ¡°Ibsen¡¯s Globalism¡°. Ibsen Studies 6:2, 188-198. 

Theodorsen, Cathrine (2013): ¡°Cosmopolitan Figures, Forms and Practices in the Norwegian Fin-de-Si¨¨cle¡±, Comparative Critical Studies 10:2, 259-81.

Other Sources (will be made available in the course of the semester)

Collett, Camilla: Essays

Jernsletten, Kiki & Troy Storfjell (2016): ¡°Re-Reading Knut Hamsun in Collaboration With Place in Lule S¨¢mi Nordl¨¢ndda¡±, Arctic Environmental Modernities. From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene, edited by Lill-Ann K?rber, Scott MacKenzie & Anna Westerst?hl Stenport. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming)