Modernitet och myt : avförtrollning och återförtrollning i Knut Hamsuns Sult, Mysterier och Pan
Author
Summary, in English
My study involves a shift of emphasis and a further development of earlier investigations. In order to describe and interpret the author’s relationship to modernity, I make use of the concepts of “disenchantment” (Entzauberung in the vocabulary of Max Weber) and “re-enchantment”. These concepts are especially suitable in discussions concerning the relationship of the early works to their time, and their specific prerequisites. The use of the concepts varies in my presentation. They are used as a means to describe and interpret the author’s attitudes to the social modernity that he confronted, and as tools for the analysis of the texts in which I am interested.
The thesis explores the dynamic relationship between one of the consequences of the Modern Age – the disenchantment of the world – and the myth of a recreated enchantment that I contend was formed during the author’s breakthrough phase, and how this polarity is manifested in the three novels I consider to be the most central in the author’s output from the 1890s. My investigation seeks to explain how the author’s ambivalent perspective toward the modern came to be used for an artistic purpose.
Department/s
Publishing year
2015
Language
Swedish
Publication/Series
Critica litterarum lundensis
Volume
13
Full text
Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Lunds universitet
Topic
- Languages and Literature
Keywords
- thematic analysis
- conditions of literary production
- role of the author
- public sphere
- re-enchantment
- disenchantment
- modernism
- modern breakthrough
- modernity
- 19th Century Norwegian Literature
- Hamsun
Status
Published
Supervisor
- Per Rydén
- Per Erik Ljung
- Rikard Schönström
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1651-2367
- ISBN: 978-91-87833-36-6
- ISBN: 978-91-87833-37-3
Defence date
26 September 2015
Defence time
10:15
Defence place
Edens hörsal, Paradisgatan 5, Lund
Opponent
- Bjarne Markussen (Professor)