A history of Norwegian literature / edited by Harald S. Naess. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Næss, Harald S.

Series:

A History of Scandinavian literatures ; v. 2

A History of Scandinavian literatures A History of Norwegian literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Norwegian literature--History and criticism.

Norwegian literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 435 p. ) map ;

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with the American-Scandinavian Foundation, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

1. Old Norwegian literature / James E. Knirk. Older runes and Germanic tradition

The Viking Age (800-1066)

The Early Middle Ages (1030-1150)

The High Middle Ages (1150-1370)

2. Oral tradition, humanism, and the baroque / Kathleen Stokker. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: oral tradition

The sixteenth century: reformation and humanism

The seventeenth century: development of vernacular poetry

3. Holberg and the age of enlightenment / Harald Naess. Eighteenth-century Norway

Ludvig Holberg

From Holberg to Tullin

Det Norske Selskab

4. Norwegian literature 1800-1860 / Harald Naess. The Eidsvoll generation

The cultural debate of the 1830s

Johan Sebastian Welhaven

Henrik Arnold Wergeland

The national breakthrough

Aasen and Vinje and the development of Nynorsk

Beginnings of the Norwegian novel: Hansen and Collett

5. Norwegian literature 1860-1910 / James McFarlane : A profile of the age 1860-1910

Henrik Ibsen

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Realism and naturalism

From the eighties to the new century

Knut Hamsun

Hans Kinck

6. Norwegian literature 1910-1950 / William Mishler. The historical and social context

Prose writers of the early twentieth century

The epic novelists: Undset, Duun, Uppdal, Falkberget

In search of Norway's soul

Two modern masters: Vesaas and Sandel

Three public poets: Wildenvey, Bull, Øverland

Nordahl Grieg and other socialist writers

The radical Freudians: Hoel and Krog

Christian phychological novelists: Fangen and Christiansen

City and wilderness

Confronting the beast within: Aksel Sandemose

Other poets with roots in the national

Four modern poets: Reiss-Andersen, Boyson, Gill, Jacobsen

7. Norwegian literature since 1950 / Jan I. Sjåvik. Prose fiction 1950-1965

Lyric poetry 1950-1965

The Profil rebels and their contemporaries

Norwegian drama in the sixties, seventies, and eighties

The 1980s: toward postmodernism

Literary criticism and scholarship

8. Norwegian children's literature / Margaret Hayford O'Leary. Early history

The golden age (1890-1914)

Between the wars

After World War II

The 1970s and 1980s

9. Norwegian women writers / Faith Ingwersen. Norwegian women writers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-390) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-585-03698-5