Romantiske stereotypier eller barnlige avvik. Arktis som oppdragende element i jentebøker fra 1940- og 1950-tallet
Children’s literature has traditionally tended to be aimed primarily at raising and educating children. The setting has played an important role as a didactic and educational element, especially in literature for boys, where the natural setting has been pictured as a space of freedom without boundar...
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ftunitroemsoe:oai:ojs.henry.ub.uit.no:article/3435 2023-05-15T14:21:40+02:00 Romantiske stereotypier eller barnlige avvik. Arktis som oppdragende element i jentebøker fra 1940- og 1950-tallet Karlsen, Silje Solheim 2015-04-22 application/pdf https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3435 https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3435 nor nor Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3435/3340 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3435 doi:10.7557/13.3435 Copyright (c) 2015 Silje Solheim Karlsen http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY Nordlit; No 35 (2015): Arctic Modernities; 205–219 Nordlit; Nr 35 (2015): Arctic Modernities; 205–219 1503-2086 0809-1668 Girls’ books conduct literature Arctic gender didacticism info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed article Fagfellevurdert artikkel 2015 ftunitroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3435 2021-08-16T15:52:32Z Children’s literature has traditionally tended to be aimed primarily at raising and educating children. The setting has played an important role as a didactic and educational element, especially in literature for boys, where the natural setting has been pictured as a space of freedom without boundaries, following the pattern of the robinsonade. However, the didactic literature for girls was more related to the eighteenth-century genre of conduct literature, a British tradition aimed at giving girls and young women a sense of how they ought to behave, think, feel and respond, following conservative ideals of manners and morals. With this tradition in mind, it is quite interesting that many Norwegian books written for children and teens between the 1930s and 1970s take place in the Arctic, several of them with young girls as heroines and protagonists. Drawing on theories of the didactic function of children’s literature, focusing especially on the Arctic landscape as setting, this article examines three girls’ books from the period 1930–1950 and the roles and spaces this literature present as available for girls and young women. It addresses questions of the significance of the Arctic setting, and asks what kind of space these narratives offer and what kind of limitations and possibilities the representations contain. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Arktis Arktis* University of Tromsø: Septentrio Academic Publishing Arctic Nordlit 35 205 |
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Children’s literature has traditionally tended to be aimed primarily at raising and educating children. The setting has played an important role as a didactic and educational element, especially in literature for boys, where the natural setting has been pictured as a space of freedom without boundaries, following the pattern of the robinsonade. However, the didactic literature for girls was more related to the eighteenth-century genre of conduct literature, a British tradition aimed at giving girls and young women a sense of how they ought to behave, think, feel and respond, following conservative ideals of manners and morals. With this tradition in mind, it is quite interesting that many Norwegian books written for children and teens between the 1930s and 1970s take place in the Arctic, several of them with young girls as heroines and protagonists. Drawing on theories of the didactic function of children’s literature, focusing especially on the Arctic landscape as setting, this article examines three girls’ books from the period 1930–1950 and the roles and spaces this literature present as available for girls and young women. It addresses questions of the significance of the Arctic setting, and asks what kind of space these narratives offer and what kind of limitations and possibilities the representations contain. |
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Romantiske stereotypier eller barnlige avvik. Arktis som oppdragende element i jentebøker fra 1940- og 1950-tallet |
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Romantiske stereotypier eller barnlige avvik. Arktis som oppdragende element i jentebøker fra 1940- og 1950-tallet |
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Romantiske stereotypier eller barnlige avvik. Arktis som oppdragende element i jentebøker fra 1940- og 1950-tallet |
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Romantiske stereotypier eller barnlige avvik. Arktis som oppdragende element i jentebøker fra 1940- og 1950-tallet |
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Romantiske stereotypier eller barnlige avvik. Arktis som oppdragende element i jentebøker fra 1940- og 1950-tallet |
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romantiske stereotypier eller barnlige avvik. arktis som oppdragende element i jentebøker fra 1940- og 1950-tallet |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing |
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2015 |
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https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3435 https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3435 |
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Nordlit; No 35 (2015): Arctic Modernities; 205–219 Nordlit; Nr 35 (2015): Arctic Modernities; 205–219 1503-2086 0809-1668 |
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https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3435/3340 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3435 doi:10.7557/13.3435 |
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