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SAS2B Scandinavian Literature in the 20Th Century Syllabus Spring SAS2B – Scandinavian literature in the 20 th Century – Syllabus Spring 2013 Course instructor: Øyvind Wiik Halvorsen E-mail: [email protected] The following titles are for sale at the university bookstore, Studia. Novels: Knut Hamsun: Growth of the Soil (1917) Sigrid Undset: Kristin Lavransdaughter , vol. 1. The Bridal Wreath (1920) Pär Lagerkvist: The Dwarf (1944) Tarjei Vesaas: The Birds (1957) Peter Høeg: Borderliners (1993) Dag Solstad: Shyness and Dignity (1994) Per Petterson Out Stealing Horses (2003) Sofi Oksanen: Purge (2008) Plays: Jon Fosse: And We’ll Never Be Parted (1994) Poems: Selection of poems (will be handed out before the lecture) by Rolf Jacobsen, Johannes V. Jensen, Tomas Tranströmer, Pär Lagerkvist, Tarjei Vesaas, Gunnar Eklöf, Edith Södergren, Olav H. Hauge, Gunvor Hofmo, Jan Erik Vold Short stories: Kjell Askildsen: “Thomas F’s Last Notes to the Public” (1982) (will be handed out before the lecture) Theory and Secondary Materiel: Otto Reinert. 1999. "Unfashionable Kristin Lavransdatter" in Scandinavian Studies , vol. 71, no. 1 Christine Hamm. 2006. "The Maiden and the Knight: Gender, Body and Melodrama in Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter, in Scandinavica , vol. 45, no. 1. 1 Robert Donald Spector. 1973. "The First Novel: Dvärgen" in Pär Lagerkvist , Twayne Publishers, New York. Hans Erik Møller. 1997. “Peter Høeg and The Sense of Writing” in Scandinavian Studies , vol. 69, no. 1. Monika Zagar. 2000. "Modernism and Aesthetic Dictatorship: Dag Solstad's Journey from the Sixties to the Seventies" in Scandinavian Studies , vol. 72, no. 2. Sarah Cameron Sunde. 2007. "Silence and Space? The New Drama of Jon Fosse" in PAJ – A Journal of Performing Art , vol. 29, no.3. William Mishler. 1993. "Norwegian Literature 1910-1950" in A History of Norwegian Literature , ed. Harald S. Naess, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London. There will be made copies of the articles available for you. All of the articles are also available at the University library or you may find them electronic through the library’s home page. I also want to stress that the list of secondary material is a temporary one and there will probably be changes and/or additions throughout the semester (articles on Hamsun, Petterson, Askildsen). Exam: There will be a final exam consisting of two parts: A 7-day take home exam (an essay on a given topic, no more than 12 pages) and an oral exam (that covers the entire course material). The exams will be based as much on the lectures as on the primary and secondary texts. Check with the student advisor in our institute for information about the final exam. Remember to sign up for the exam early in the semester. Time schedule: 16.01. Introduction to the course and overview of the period (Bjørby) 23.01. Hamsun: Growth of the Soil 30.01. Selection of poems by Södergren, Eklöf, Jacobsen, Jensen, Lagerkvist, discussion 06.02. Undset: Kristin Lavransdaughter 2 13.02. Lagerkvist: The Dwarf 20.02. Vesaas: The Birds , a selection of poems and short story by Askildsen will be handed out 06.03. Selection of poems by Vesaas, Hauge, Tranströmer, Hofmo, Askildsen: “Thomas F’s Last Notes to the Public” 13.03. Solstad: Shyness and Dignity 20.03. Fosse: And We’ll Never Be Parted 03.04. Høeg: Borderliners 10.04. Petterson: Out Stealing Horses 17.04. Oksanen: Purge 24.04. Summing up, students’ choice 3 .
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