"Green by this Time Tomorrow!": Knut Hamsun's Alternative Modernity.
The Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun's erratic behavior during the 1930s and early 1940s, when he publicly endorsed the German war effort, has tarnished the reputation of his Nobel Prize-winning novel "Growth of the Soil" (1917) and in some circles stigmatized it as "reactionary," "antimodern" and eve...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 1 - 28 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Indiana University Press
Fall2009
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