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Hunger by Knut Hamsun.
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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 unknown t...
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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 man o...
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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 defen...
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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 nove...
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Teaching Hunger
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Hunger Lesson Plans contain 109 pages of teaching material, including:
Hunger
Knut Hamsun
Knut Pedersen
Critical Review by Hunter T. Stagg
