The Promise of America
Author | : Odd Sverre Lovoll |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9781452903736 |
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Author | : Odd Sverre Lovoll |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9781452903736 |
Author | : Ole Edvart R?lvaag |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780803289062 |
Peder Victorious, the sequel to Rölvaag's massive Giants in the Earth, continues the saga of the Norwegian settlers in the Dakotas. Here again, years later, are all the sturdy pioneers of the earlier novel, Rölvaag's "vikings of the prairie"—Per Hansa's Beret and their children, Syvert Tönseten and Kjersti, and Sörine. The great struggle against the land itself has been won. Now there is to be a second struggle, a struggle to adapt, to become Americans. The development of the Spring Creek settlement in these years is manifested in the rebellious growing up of Peder Victorious. Peder is a beautiful and moving novel of youth and youth's self-discovery. It is the story, too, of Beret's pain and dismay at the Americanization of her children, what Rölvaag described as the true tragedy of the immigrants, who made their children part of a world to which they themselves could never belong. Out of the inevitable conflict between the first-generation American and his still Norwegian mother, Rölvaag built a powerful novel of personal growth, guilt, and victory.
Author | : Peter Thaler |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780874136296 |
Without blurring the distinction between verifiable historic source material and literary imagination, the study combines historical, literary, and social science analysis in its attempt to distill historically valuable information from the central literary and political writings of immigrant intellectuals. It is based on extensive primary historical source material and develops new techniques for the analysis of political and cross-cultural discourse.
Author | : Harald S. N•ss |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780803233171 |
Volume 2.
Author | : Jan Sjåvik |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2006-04-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0810865017 |
The literature of Scandinavia is amazingly rich and varied, consisting of the works produced by the countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, and stretching from the ancient Norse Sagas to the present day. While much of it is unknown outside of the region, some has gained worldwide popularity, including the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, the stories of Isak Dinesen, and the plays of Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg. While obviously including the area's most famous works, the Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater also provides information on lesser known authors and currents trends, literary circles and journals, and historical background. This is accomplished through a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries, which together make this reference the most comprehensive and up to date work of its kind related to Scandinavian literature and theater available anywhere.
Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | : Copyright Office, Library of Congress |
Total Pages | : 2754 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Ragnhild Johnsrud Zorgati |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 625 |
Release | : 2021-05-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3110636565 |
With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Volume 3 analyses the impact of Jerusalem on Scandinavian Christianity from the middle of the 18. century in a broad context. Tracing the Jerusalem Code in three volumes Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100–1536) Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536–ca. 1750) Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750–ca. 1920)
Author | : Orm Øverland |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Norwegian Americans |
ISBN | : 9780252023279 |
The Western Home: A Literary History of Norwegian America is a history of American literature. It is different from other histories of American literature in that the language of the writers and their readers was not English. There have been studies of American authors who have used languages such as French, German, Spanish, or Swedish, but this is the first comprehensive history of any literature written and read in the United States in another language than English. Indeed, most histories of American literature are based on the theory that English is the only American literary language. Such a theory, however, dismisses the fact that English has in periods been a minority language in many areas. In this book American literature is the literature of people who are American by choice or by birth regardless of the language they may have used. This book demonstrates that Norwegian has indeed been an American literary language and that many of the American writers in this language deserve our attention.
Author | : Steven P. Sondrup |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 765 |
Release | : 2017-12-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9027265054 |
Nordic Literature: A comparative history is a multi-volume comparative analysis of the literature of the Nordic region. Bringing together the literature of Finland, continental Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Sápmi), and the insular region (Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands), each volume of this three-volume project adopts a new frame through which one can recognize and analyze significant clusters of literary practice. This first volume, Spatial nodes, devotes its attention to the changing literary figurations of space by Nordic writers from medieval to contemporary times. Organized around the depiction of various “scapes” and spatial practices at home and abroad, this approach to Nordic literature stretches existing notions of temporally linear, nationally centered literary history and allows questions of internal regional similarities and differences to emerge more strongly. The productive historical contingency of the “North” as a literary space becomes clear in this close analysis of its literary texts and practices.
Author | : Philip A. Greasley |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 980 |
Release | : 2001-05-30 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780253108418 |
The Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume One, surveys the lives and writings of nearly 400 Midwestern authors and identifies some of the most important criticism of their writings. The Dictionary is based on the belief that the literature of any region simultaneously captures the experience and influences the worldview of its people, reflecting as well as shaping the evolving sense of individual and collective identity, meaning, and values. Volume One presents individual lives and literary orientations and offers a broad survey of the Midwestern experience as expressed by its many diverse peoples over time.Philip A. Greasley's introduction fills in background information and describes the philosophy, focus, methodology, content, and layout of entries, as well as criteria for their inclusion. An extended lead-essay, "The Origins and Development of the Literature of the Midwest," by David D. Anderson, provides a historical, cultural, and literary context in which the lives and writings of individual authors can be considered.This volume is the first of an ambitious three-volume series sponsored by the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature and created by its members. Volume Two will provide similar coverage of non-author entries, such as sites, centers, movements, influences, themes, and genres. Volume Three will be a literary history of the Midwest. One goal of the series is to build understanding of the nature, importance, and influence of Midwestern writers and literature. Another is to provide information on writers from the early years of the Midwestern experience, as well as those now emerging, who are typically absent from existing reference works.