A Hero in the Friendly Arctic: Deconstructing Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Rhetorical Maneuver

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Gaupseth, Silje
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Norwegian
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2012
• Subjects: Vilhjalmur Stefansson; The Friendly Arctic; Arctic Canada; discourse of friendliness; implied author; character; narrator; self-presentation; Arctic; Canada; Stefansson; eskimo*
• Online Access: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/2302; https://doi.org/10.7557/13.2302

The article deals with Arctic explorer and anthropologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson's self-presentation in the expedition account The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions (1921), which tells the story of his travels and trials in the Canadian High Arctic in the years between 19...