Tag: Environment in Norwegian Literature

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