Schedule

Date Time Activity Optional readings Location Lecturer
22.06.15
Monday
08:15-10:00

Topic: Introduction and Course Themes: Gender, Place,

History in Norwegian Literature
Read: ?Rigsthula? and ?Hávamál?

?steg?rd: ?The Invention of Norway? PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
23.06.15
Tuesday
08:15-10:00

Topic: National Romanticism & Folktales

Read: ?The Ash Lad Who Had an Eating Match with a Troll,? ?The Princess Who Always Had to Have the Last Word,? ?White-Bear-King Valemon,? ?The Old Woman Against the Stream,? ?Gudbrand of the Hillside?

Stokker: ?Oral Tradition?

 

?Seventh Father,?

?Bear & Fox?
PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
24.06.15
Wednesday
08:15-10:00

Topic: The Modern Breakthrough & Henrik Ibsen

Read: A Doll’s House
McFarlane: ?Literature 1860-1910? PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
25.06.15
Thursday
08:15-10:00 Excursion: Ibsen’s Christiania    PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
26.06.15
Friday
08:15-10:00

Topic: Realism; Ibsen & Gender

Read: A Doll’s House
Moi: ?First and Foremost a Human Being? PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
29.06.15
Monday
08:15-10:00

Topic: Naturalism & Modernism

Read: Skram ?Karen’s Christmas? and Sandel ?A Mystery?; N?ss ?Literature 1800-1860?
Solbakken ?Women in Norwegian Literature and Society? PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
30.06.15
Tuesday
08:15-10:00

Topic: Post-war

Read: Vars ?Boarding School? and Lindstr?m ?Mother Moon?
Kuokkanen: ?‘Survivance’ in Sami Boarding School Narratives? PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
01.07.15
Wednesday
08:15-10:00

Topic: Contemporary trends

Read: Marstein ?Deep Need-Instant Nausea? and Ullmann Before You Sleep excerpt
Sabo: ?The Status of Sexuality, Pornography, and Morality? PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
02.07.15
Thursday
08:15-10:00 Student Presentations: Gender & Literature   PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
03.07.15
Friday
08:15-10:00 Guest Lecture: Erik Skuggevik on Translation Nunnally: ?Removing the Grime? PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
06.07.15
Monday
08:15-10:00

Topic: Landscape in Poetry

Read: Obstfelder, Jacobsen
Greenwald: ?Introduction to Rolf Jacobsen? PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
07.07.15
Tuesday
08:15-10:00

Topic: Modernism & the City

Read: Hamsun Hunger excerpt
Sandberg: ?Writing on the Wall? PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
08.07.15
Wednesday
08:15-10:00

Topic: Modernism & Nature

Read: Hamsun Pan excerpt
Zook: ?Reorienting Hamsun? PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
13.07.15
Monday
08:15-10:00

Topic: Primitivism

Read: Vesaas Birds
Hermundsg?rd: ?Child of the Earth? PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
14.07.15
Tuesday
08:15-10:00

Topic: Language

Read: Vesaas Birds; selected poems by VesaasWilson: ?Capability and Language?
: ?Capability and Language? PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
15.07.15
Wednesday
08:15-10:00

Topic: Young Men in the City

Read: Garborg Weary Men excerpt
Humpál: ?Irony Revisited? PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
16.07.15
Thursday
08:15-10:00

Topic: Drama

Read: Jon Fosse ?Waves of Stone? and excerpt from Someone Is Going to Come
Rees: ?By the Open Sea? PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
17.07.15
Friday
08:15-10:00 Student Presentations: Nature & the City   PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
20.07.15
Monday
08:15-10:00

Topic: Historical Novel:

Read: Undset The Wreath excerpt
Berguson: ?Arrested in Parody? PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
21.07.15
Tuesday
08:15-10:00

Topic: WWII and Resistance

Read: Petterson Out Stealing Horses
Sj?vik: ?Norwegian Literature Since 1950? PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
22.07.15
Wednesday
08:15-10:00 Excursion: WWII Resistance – Hjemmefrontsmuseum   PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
23.07.15
Thursday
08:15-10:00

Topic: War and Men

Read: Petterson Out Stealing Horses
Simonson: ?Fictions of Old Age Well-Being? PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
24.07.15
Friday
08:15-10:00 Student Presentations: History & Literature   PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
27.07.15
Monday
08:15-10:00

Topic: Crime Fiction

Read: Jo Nesb? The Redbreast excerpt
Meyhoff: ?Digging into Secrets of the Past? PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.
28.07.15
Tuesday
08:15-10:00 Topic: Course summary and review   PAM Seminarrom 10 Gjellstad, M.

29.07.15

Wednesday

14:00-16:00 Final exam      
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