The novels of the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) introduced a new style and concept of character into European literature. He received the 1920 Nobel Prize for literature.Knut Hamsun was bor...
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Knut Hamsun is Norway's best-known novelist and one of the major world writers of modern times. He is commonly ranked immediately below the four great names of Scandinavian literature: Hans Christian ...
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In the following review of Hunger, Stagg lauds Hamsun's powerful and vivid writing style.
It seems inevitable that the conspicuous success in this country of a foreign writer hitherto unknow...
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In the following essay, Coles summarizes the major action and themes in Hunger, concluding with a short history of Hamsun's literary career and political struggles.
On February 19, 1952 a ma...
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In the following essay, Ferguson creates an outline of events in Hamsun's life immediately preceding the publication of Hunger, including several anecdotes about Hamsun's relationships w...
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In the following essay, Riechel studies two of Hamsun's early novels, noting that the narrative effects in both Hunger and Mysteries are achieved from a combination of ambiguity, irony, and sel...
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In the following essay, Auster offers a thematic analysis of Hunger, characterizing the work as a pioneering text about artistic achievement.
What is important, it seems to me, is not so much to de...
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In the following essay, Sandberg proposes that although Hunger is often regarded as a subjective novel of private literary expression, it is equally valid as a text that links itself, via its language...
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In the following essay, Axelrod examines the use of space, travel, movement, and change in Hunger.
Published in 1890, Hunger is probably Hamsun's best known and, arguably, his best written n...
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Teaching Hunger
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A long-running hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay gained several participants in recent weeks amid complaints over conditions at a new unit of the prison, but a spokesman at the U.S. military base sai...
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The number of Guantanamo Bay detainees participating in a hunger strike has more than doubled in recent weeks to 11, including five who are being force-fed, the U.S. military said Monday.Military o...
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Imprisoned Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky launched a hunger strike Wednesday to protest authorities' refusal to give his jailed ex-lawyer AIDS medication.Khodorkovsky accused officials of ...
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, in his fight against domestic hunger, called on Congress Wednesday to take immediate action to fund programs that provide food services for millions....
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A federal appeals court on Friday affirmed a civil contempt ruling against a former university professor hours after he ended a two-month hunger strike to protest a judge's decision to extend his p...
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Rome (dpa) - World hunger is on the rise, meaning governments will
likely fail in their objective of halving the number of
undernourished people by 2015 unless urgent action...
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Below are the twelve types of emotional hunger that trigger Emotional Eating. As you read through the list, ask yourself how many of these apply to you and your life. If you use food i...
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Food Security: There's never a shortage of dictators to hurl abuse at the U.S. for its food policies. But they have no right to do it. Marxism, not freedom, is the world's foremost creator of hunge...
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Hunger
Knut Hamsun
Knut Pedersen
Critical Review by Hunter T. Stagg
Guantanamo hunger strike expands
