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Our aim is to examine the evolution of Henrik Pontoppidan's authorship by comparing the five different editions that exist of his short story ‘Eagle's Flight’ (‘Ørneflugt’), as well as ...enriching the understanding of the story. We attempt to validate the existing views of ‘Eagle's Flight’ based on classic literary analysis (qualitative part) by approaching them from a different perspective, that of digital text analysis (quantitative part). The digital analysis focuses on sentiment analysis and topic modelling as ways of discovering differences in the same story across different versions. We have chosen this story as it is relatively easy and quite fast to read, allowing the reader to validate (or not) the output of the machine learning algorithms on their own. We test whether these techniques can be applied in a Danish literature context, and how they further contribute to the analysis and understanding of the literature. Our findings suggest that the methods complement each other and point in the same direction, that Pontoppidan has changed his way of writing during the time of the authorship from a Romantic towards a more Pragmatic style. Our approach can be applied to the works of any author.
This dissertation explores the Fourth Gospel’s christological use of Israel’s patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Its main contention is that Israel’s patriarchs in the Fourth Gospel function as ...comparative characters for the purpose of highlighting aspects of Jesus’s unique identity as God’s Son. Thus this dissertation first examines the relevant Old Testament passages in its original context (Gen 18:1–15; 22:1–19; 28:10–22; 29:1–30) and the development of these passages in Second Temple Jewish Literature. This examination evinces a consistent pattern among Second Temple Jewish writers either elaborating the Old Testament patriarchal traditions by adding greater significance, or elevating the patriarchs to exemplary or eschatological status. With this in view, the dissertation studies passages in the Fourth Gospel wherein Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are explicitly recalled or implicitly alluded (John 1:14, 18; 1:51; 4:1–42; 8:12–59). The work observes that the evocation of the patriarchs takes place in the context of comparison(often with the use of the comparative adjective μείζων) with christological purposes. The Fourth Gospel’s presentation of Jesus as one greater than the patriarchs may have communal or ecclesiological implications for those who believe in Jesus. Israel is being reconstituted under God’s unique Son Jesus; Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are no longer the arbiters of divine paternity. Through a study of the patriarch in the Fourth Gospel, this dissertation proposes a new christological model: Comparative Christology.
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Boundaries of the Stranger Hjortshøj, Søren Blak
European journal of Scandinavian studies,
10/2020, Letnik:
50, Številka:
2
Journal Article
In recent cosmopolitan work, scholars such as Julia Kristeva, Zygmunt Bauman, Jacques Derrida, and Ulrich Beck have represented the stranger as a universal ideal for our global age and Georg Simmel’s ...stranger in the
has been emphasized as a model for this ideal. While these uses can be justified by generalized passages in Simmel’s essay, they still omit the problem of European Jewish historical exemplarity. Thus, in the decades before Simmel’s essay, this stranger type was already a well-developed figure related to the so-called Jewish question. Georg Brandes and Henrik Pontoppidan used the Jewish stranger to evaluate the societal changes of the fin-de-siècle period and questions of progress vs. decay. Yet, their work limited the stranger to a specific type of Jewishness not including other marginal existences. Hence, reading Simmel with Brandes and Pontoppidan outlines the boundaries of this stranger type as it raises questions regarding recent cosmopolitan uses of Simmel’s stranger.
This paper attempts to undertake a geo-literary analysis of contemporary Scandinavian literature, departing from the pastoral nature representations of 19th century literary awakening and lingering ...on recent Scandinavian crime fiction, as this subgenre represents the Scandinavian peninsula’s latest contribution to World Literature and a “temporary sub-centre” (Mads Rosendahl Thomsen) of provisional international interest. Transcending both the idyllical natural setting of romanticism and the estrangement of modernism, Scandinavian literature succeeds in re-establishing the rural as predilect locus of narrative unfolding. The paper argues that the rural mise-en-scene is symptomatic for a broader ideological background, as it best reflects the ecological ethos that cuts across the peninsula’s history, from the nationalistic discourse of nature to the criticism directed against the dismantling of social-democracy under the pressure of neoliberalism.
Up until now, Scandinavianist criticism has barely touched the question of a specific literary function of anti-Semitic stereotypes. This paper starts with a discussion of an older but persistent ...critical controversy about anti-Semitic tendencies in Knut Hamsun’s work. It then focuses on two novels,
(1923) by Knut Hamsun and
(1898–1904) by Henrik Pontoppidan. Both depict “the Jew” as the incarnation of capitalist modernity, however arrive at quite different conclusions. This article defends the thesis that
uses a well calculated play by constructing the character Fru Ruben as possibly but indeterminably Jewish. It thus has the potential to activate anti-Semitic pre-dispositions in the reader.
on the other hand, depicts stereotypical Jews in a clearly anti-Semitic manner. However, it can be shown that these depictions are used to unveil both the narrator’s, his contemporary society’s and thus potentially also the reader’s own prejudice.
Lebowitz critiques Henrik Pontoppidan's Lykke Per, one of the greatest novels of European literature. It was praised by Thomas Mann, Georg Lukacs, and Ernst Bloch as a cosmopolitan masterpiece of ...epochal sweep and a profound social, psychological, and metaphysical anatomy of the modernist transition. In it, Pontoppidan subjects his aesthetic form to a dialectical debate that keeps it from being confined to a social or national cause, keeps ideas from dominating temperament, and even puts readers in the position Kierkegaard promotes where spirit can snatch.
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Most of them had imbibed Christianity with their mothers' milk, and years after their apostasies, many of them continued to experience eructations of old Christianity.1 A Protestant conviction of sin ...haunted them while at the same time they struggled to fill the void created by the rejection of religion. In an interesting analysis of conversion autobiographies, Anne Hunsaker Hawkins points to three different models according to which converts usually narrate their conversion stories: the crisis, the lysis, and the epektesis.25 The crisis is the abrupt, dramatic, and instantaneous turn often accompanied by a mystical experience; the lysis is a gradual and repetitive process of turning; and the epektesis is the continual, spiraling conversion quest, which never ends.
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Terje Leiren, University of Washington * Kristine J. Anderson, Purdue University, The Danish Presence in English texts 1475-1800" * Shaun F. Hughes, Purdue University, "A Recently Undiscovered ...Basque-Icelandic Dictionary from the Seventeenth Century" * Kim-Eric Williams, University of Pennsylvania, Translating the Handskrifter of Gloria Dei, Old Swedes Church, Philadelphia" 5. Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams, University of Washington * Marilyn Blackwell, Ohio State University, "Ingmar Bergman's Bodies" * Nora Simonhjell, Agder University College, "Skin Narratives-Contemporary Scandinavian Novels Read through the Skin" * la Dübois, University of Washington, "Aging Academics in Novels by Lars Gustafsson and Dag Solstad: A Study in Changing Masculinities" 14.
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