Tag: Contemporary Norwegian Literature

  • Per Esben Svelstad. Same Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature

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    This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex desire in twentieth-century Norwegian literature. Critically probing dichotomies such as pastoral/urban and human/animal, the chapters show how literary fiction constructs, represents, and interprets experiences of same-sex love and attraction, traditionally conceived as “unnatural.” Providing in-depth studies…

    Per Esben Svelstad. Same Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature
  • Winner of the EASLCE Essay Prize, Călina-Maria Moldovan

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    Călina-Maria Moldovan, PhD student at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, is the winner of the EASLCE Essay Prize. A jury consisting of members of the EASLCE Advisory Board decided to award the prize to Călina-Maria for her article “The Ocean in Contemporary Norwegian Literature”. The article does, according to the jury, not only “comply with the…

    Winner of the EASLCE Essay Prize, Călina-Maria Moldovan