Siktemålet med avhandlingen har vært å presentere nylesninger av Hamsuns tre romaner Pan (1894), Markens Grøde (1917) og Landstrykere (1927) med utgangpunkt i Mikhail Bakhtins kronotopbegrep. Sentralt innenfor alle tre romanene stod en dominerende naturskildring med røtter i idyllbegrepet, slik Mikhail Bakhtin fremla det i essayet Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel. En hypotese som ble ...

In this article, I discuss Knut Hamsun’s last book On Overgrown Paths [På gjengrodde Stier] (1949) from the perspective of a pathography, meaning an autobiography that focuses on a person’s illness and its consequences. Due to his actions during WWII, Hamsun was subjected to a psychiatric examination in 1947 and diagnosed as having permanently impaired mental faculties. Hamsun opposed this diagnosis, ...

In recent years, a growing number of young people who experience illness tend to blog about it. In this paper, we question whether and how illness blogs illustrate the intercommunicative aspect of blogging by bringing forth both the literary concept of the implied reader and the sociological concepts of empowerment and agency in the analysis. We argue that young people blogging about serious illness ...