Course Plan and Syllabus 2014 Course Code: ISSN1320

Course Leader: Melissa Gjellstad

Time: 08:15-10:00

Optional Date Time Topic/ Readings/ Lecturer Readings

Week 1 8:15-10:00 Topic: Introduction and Course Themes: Gender, Place, Østegård: «The June 23 History in Norwegian Literature Invention of Read: «Rigsthula» and «Hávamál» Norway» 8:15-10:00 Topic: National Romanticism & Folktales Read: «The Ash Lad Who Had an Eating Match with a Troll,» «The Princess Who Always Had to Have the Last Stokker: «Oral June 24 Word,» «White-Bear-King Valemon,» «The Old Woman Tradition» Against the Stream,» «Gudbrand of the Hillside,» «Good Day, Man – Axe Handle!» 8:15-10:00 McFarlane: Topic: The Modern Breakthrough & Henrik Ibsen June 25 «Literature 1860- Read: A Doll’s House 1910» June 26 8:15-10:00 Excursion: Ibsen’s Christiania 8:15-10:00 Moi: «First and Topic: Realism; Ibsen & Gender June 27 Foremost a Read: A Doll’s House Human Being»

Week 2 8:15-10:00 Solbakken Topic: Naturalism & Modernism «Women in June 30 Read: Skram «Karen’s Christmas» and Sandel «A Norwegian Mystery» Literature and Society» 8:15-10:00 Kuokkanen: Topic: Post-war «’Survivance’ in July 01 Read: Vars «Boarding School» and Lindstrøm «Mother Sami Boarding Moon» School Narratives» 8:15-10:00 Sabo: «The Status Topic: Contemporary trends of Sexuality, July 02 Read: Marstein «Deep Need-Instant Nausea» and Pornography, and Ullmann Before You Sleep excerpt Morality» July 03 8:15-10:00 Student Presentations: Gender & Literature 8:15-10:00 Nunnally: July 04 Guest Lecture: Erik Skuggevik on Translation «Removing the Grime»

Week 3 8:15-10:00 Greenwald: Topic: Landscape in Poetry July 07 «Introduction to Read: Obstfelder, Jacobsen Rolf Jacobsen» 8:15-10:00 Sandberg: Topic: Modernism & the City July 08 «Writing on the Read: Hamsun Hunger excerpt Wall»

8:15-10:00 Zook: Topic: Modernism & Nature July 09 «Reorienting Read: Hamsun Pan excerpt Hamsun» July 10 No Classes: Long Weekend --

July 11 No Classes: Long Weekend --

Week 4 8:15-10:00 Hermundsgård: Topic: Primitivism July 14 «Child of the Read: Vesaas Birds Earth» 8:15-10:00 Wilson: Topic: Language July 15 «Capability and Read: Vesaas Birds Language» 8:15-10:00 Topic: Young Men in the City July 16 Read: Garborg Weary Men excerpt 8:15-10:00 Topic: Drama Rees: «By the July 17 Read: Jon Fosse «Waves of Stone» and excerpt from Open Sea» Someone Is Going to Come July 18 8:15-10:00 Student Presentations: Nature & the City

Week 5 8:15-10:00 Berguson: Topic: Historical Novel: July 21 «Arrested in Read: Undset The Wreath excerpt Language» July 22 8:15-10:00 Excursion: 1814 – Constitution’s 200 Year Celebration 8:15-10:00 Solbakken: «The Topic: WWII and Memory Social and July 23 Read: Undset Return to the Future excerpt Political Status of Women» 8:15-10:00 Sjåvik: Topic: WWII and Resistance «Norwegian July 24 Read: Petterson Out Stealing Horses Literature Since 1950» 8:15-10:00 Simonson: Topic: War and Men July 25 «Fictions of Old Read: Petterson Out Stealing Horses Age Well Being»

Week 6 July 28 8:15-10:00 Excursion: WWII Resistance - Hjemmefrontsmuseum 8:15-10:00 Meyhoff: Topic: Crime Fiction «Digging into July 29 Read: Jo Nesbø The Redbreast excerpt Secrets of the Past» July 30 8:15-10:00 Final Exam

Reading List

Course readers (compendia) consisting of selected poems, short stories, excerpts and articles will be available on the first day of class, free of charge.

In addition, we will be reading three texts in full – one play and two novels. These are:

• Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll’s House. Any translation is acceptable. If there are alternative translations, choose the most recent one. • Petterson, Per. Out Stealing Horses. Vintage Press, 2006 [ISBN 978-0099506133 (UK edition)] or Picador Press, 2008 [978-0312427085 (US edition)] • Vesaas, Terje. The Birds. (Available for loan at the ISS Office for all students.)

The texts A Doll’s House and Out Stealing Horses must be bought either at the bookstore on the Blindern campus of the University of Oslo or at a bookstore. Book prices in Norway can be high, so it is advised that you do some comparative shopping to find the best price and buy the books before arrival in Norway. All students must have the course texts at the start of the course.