The Romance of Reinhabitation: Jack London and Knut Hamsun

2015 ◽  
pp. 38-50
Keyword(s):  
Jack London ◽  
Knut Hamsun

A literary Kin of Kipling and Jack London

1976 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 31-34
Author(s):  
Ernesto Montenegro
Keyword(s):  
Jack London

California Writers: Jack London / John Steinbeck / The Tough Guys.

1984 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 608
Author(s):  
William Randel ◽  
Stoddard Martin
Keyword(s):  
John Steinbeck ◽  
Jack London

scholarly journals Out of the ruins: Knut Hamsun’s ‘idealism’ and the inheritance of World War I

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 262-272
Author(s):  
Tore Rem
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
World War ◽  
Knut Hamsun

In 1920, the Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun won the Nobel Prize for literature for his novel Markens grøde ( Growth of the Soil) (1917). This article explores some of the key contexts for this work, highlighting the author’s own ambitions, the reasons why he sided with Germany during the war, and his generally völkisch perspectives on the Germanic and Nordic. It furthermore analyses the early reception of this World War I novel, and how it was first subjected to a number of positive readings and seen as an example of idealism, before being appropriated by Nazism.

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