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Title

Resten i Vesten : verdenslitteratur i modernismens margin / af Bergur Rønne Moberg.

Author

Moberg, Bergur Rønne,

Publication

Hellerup : Forlaget Spring, [2014]

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Description

577 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Critique of standard literary Modernism with an eye to Faroese literature and authors usually neglected in discussions of this period. Modernism is read into a world literary context defined by classical Modernist authors such as Thomas Mann and Albert Camus but then the author focuses on four Faroese novelists: William Heinesen, Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen, Jens Pauli Heinesen and Gunnar Hoydal. The emphasis is on Faroese literature that has created a number of works of international standing, which can contribute to a literary historical review of modernism and thereby put the usual literary model's dichotomous structures and narrow distinctions under pressure ...

Subject

• Authors, Faroese > 20th century
• European literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Faroe Islands > Intellectual life > 20th century
• Faroese literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Modernism (Literature)

Note

• Modernism has during the 20th century moved from continent to continent and has become a worldwide phenomenon. The book examines what happens when we ask 'where was modernism?' instead of just asking 'When was Modernism?'.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 8792381561
• 9788792381569

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library