Blar i forfatter Mastergradsoppgaver i litteratur "Pokorna, Michaela"
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Making of Arctic heroes. Charles Brower’s Fifty Years below Zero, Jan Welzl’s Thirty Years in the Golden North, and ideas of Arctic heroism and national character
Pokorna, Michaela (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-11-19)This thesis examines literary representation and imaginative construction of arctic heroism and national character in autobiographical memoirs Fifty years Below Zero by Charles Brower (an U.S. writer) and Thirty Years in the Golden North by Jan Welzl (a Czech author from the Austro-Hungarian Empire). I discuss the ways Brower and Welzl fashion heroic images of themselves in their texts, and how these ...