Transgression, Nostalgia, Order: Representation of the Primitive in Émile Zola's <i> La Terre </i> and Knut Hamsun's <i> Markens grøde <\i>

Transgression, Nostalgia, Order: Representation of the Primitive in Émile Zola's <i> La Terre </i> and Knut Hamsun's <i> Markens grøde <\i>

This article examines the representation of the primitive in two peasant novels, Émile Zola's La Terre (1887, trans. as The Earth) and Knut Hamsun's Markens grøde (1917, trans. as Growth of the Soil). The concept of the primitive crosses a wide range of issues that were central to naturali...

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Main Author: Riikka Rossi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2012-03-01
Series:Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur
Subjects:
primitivism
naturalism
decadence
transgression
Émile Zola
Knut Hamsun
Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/2282

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