03430oam 22006374a 450 991102607370332120221114214914.097802957423040295742305(CKB)4100000001042506(MiAaPQ)EBC5150777(OCoLC)1057238049(MdBmJHUP)musev2_81708(DE-B1597)726222(DE-B1597)9780295742304(Perlego)723941(EXLCZ)99410000000104250620181010d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierFascism and Modernist Literature in NorwayDean KroukSeattle :University of Washington Press,[2018]©[2018]1 online resource (185 pages) illustrationsNew directions in Scandinavian studies9780295742281 0295742283 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- 1. Norwegian Modernism and Fascist Utopianism -- 2. Blind Forces of Life: Knut Hamsun's Mysteries -- 3. Wild Spring: Åsmund Sveen's Homoerotic Vitalism and Nazi Collaboration -- 4. Modernist Ragnarok: Rolf Jacobsen's Poetic and Political Anti-Nihilism -- 5. Unconscious Nazism: Sigurd Hoel's Psychoanalytic Antifascism -- Conclusion.Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway illuminates the connections between literature and politics in interwar Europe. Focusing on the works of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Knut Hamsun and modernist poets Asmund Sveen and Rolf Jacobsen, all of whom collaborated with the Nazi regime during the occupation of Norway in World War II, and those of the anti-fascist novelist and critic Sigurd Hoel, Dean Krouk reveals key aspects of the modernist literary imagination in Norway. In their writings, Hamsun, Sveen, and Jacobsen expressed their discontent with twentieth-century European modernity, which they perceived as overly rationalized or nihilistic. Krouk explains how fascism offered these writers a seductive utopian vision that intersected with the countercultural and avant-garde aspects of their literary works, while Hoel's critical analysis of Nazism extended to a questioning of all patriarchal forms of authority. Krouk's readings of their works serve as a timely reminder to us all of the dangers of fascism.New directions in Scandinavian studies.Norwegian literaturefast(OCoLC)fst01039449Modernism (Literature)fast(OCoLC)fst01024455Fascism and literaturefast(OCoLC)fst00921577Modernism (Literature)NorwayFascism and literatureNorwayNorwegian literature20th centuryHistory and criticismNorwayfastCriticism, interpretation, etc.Norwegian literature.Modernism (Literature)Fascism and literature.Modernism (Literature)Fascism and literatureNorwegian literatureHistory and criticism.839.820911Krouk Dean1847731MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9911026073703321Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway4433718UNINA