“DET UFERDIGES KRAFT” SOM LITTERÆR VERDI HOS KNUT HAMSUN OG KARL OVE KNAUSGÅRD
In the essay “Sjelens Amerika” [“The America of the Soul”], Karl Ove Knausgård claims that the reason why we still perceive Knut Hamsun’s novels as fresh and present is because they display our own modern world in its very creation, at a time when it was full of “the power of the unfinished” and not...
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| description | In the essay “Sjelens Amerika” [“The America of the Soul”], Karl Ove Knausgård claims that the reason why we still perceive Knut Hamsun’s novels as fresh and present is because they display our own modern world in its very creation, at a time when it was full of “the power of the unfinished” and not yet stiffened in accomplished systems. In this article, I argue that the idea of “the power of the unfinished” is an aesthetic category describing the core of a poetics common to Knausgård and Hamsun. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-06c1c86ae4164b6d9eface6463aa75292024-02-02T14:36:53ZengSeptentrio Academic PublishingNordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur0809-16681503-20862016-04-013810.7557/13.37653496“DET UFERDIGES KRAFT” SOM LITTERÆR VERDI HOS KNUT HAMSUN OG KARL OVE KNAUSGÅRDSissel Furuseth0Universitetet i OsloIn the essay “Sjelens Amerika” [“The America of the Soul”], Karl Ove Knausgård claims that the reason why we still perceive Knut Hamsun’s novels as fresh and present is because they display our own modern world in its very creation, at a time when it was full of “the power of the unfinished” and not yet stiffened in accomplished systems. In this article, I argue that the idea of “the power of the unfinished” is an aesthetic category describing the core of a poetics common to Knausgård and Hamsun.https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3765Knut HamsunKarl Ove KnausgårdBjørnstjerne Bjørnsonpoeticsemergencereality |
| spellingShingle | Sissel Furuseth “DET UFERDIGES KRAFT” SOM LITTERÆR VERDI HOS KNUT HAMSUN OG KARL OVE KNAUSGÅRD Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur Knut Hamsun Karl Ove Knausgård Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson poetics emergence reality |
| title | “DET UFERDIGES KRAFT” SOM LITTERÆR VERDI HOS KNUT HAMSUN OG KARL OVE KNAUSGÅRD |
| title_full | “DET UFERDIGES KRAFT” SOM LITTERÆR VERDI HOS KNUT HAMSUN OG KARL OVE KNAUSGÅRD |
| title_fullStr | “DET UFERDIGES KRAFT” SOM LITTERÆR VERDI HOS KNUT HAMSUN OG KARL OVE KNAUSGÅRD |
| title_full_unstemmed | “DET UFERDIGES KRAFT” SOM LITTERÆR VERDI HOS KNUT HAMSUN OG KARL OVE KNAUSGÅRD |
| title_short | “DET UFERDIGES KRAFT” SOM LITTERÆR VERDI HOS KNUT HAMSUN OG KARL OVE KNAUSGÅRD |
| title_sort | det uferdiges kraft som litteraer verdi hos knut hamsun og karl ove knausgard |
| topic | Knut Hamsun Karl Ove Knausgård Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson poetics emergence reality |
| url | https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3765 |
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