Knut Hamsun’s “Meditations on Nansen” Revisited: The Dilemma of Modernity

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Hanna Eglinger
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Norwegian
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2015
• Subjects: Arctic enthusiasm; Knut Hamsun; Fridtjof Nansen; Bruno Latour; transgression; modernity; Norwegian literature; PT8301-9155; Arctic; Greenland; Fridtjof
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3433; https://doaj.org/article/bf761aac7d314a7499c7bd3dbd5230a1

Knut Hamsun’s polemic about the Norwegian Nansen cult round 1889 (on the occasion of Fridtjof Nansen’s ski crossing of Greenland), which he published in a newspaper article titled “Meditations on Nansen” (“Nansen-Betragtninger”), was mainly directed against the public enthusiasm for sportive records...