Stoic Farmers, Silent Women: The Portrayal of the Icelandic Family in two Novels by Halldór Laxness
Nobel Prize winning author Halldór Laxness enjoyed using the "typical" Icelandic farmer as his protagonist. Always at his side are his family members, with whom interactions are often very limited and rather reserved. Within the dynamic of this stoic family, there are several discourses to...
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ftunivmaryland:oai:drum.lib.umd.edu:1903/8233 2023-05-15T16:49:23+02:00 Stoic Farmers, Silent Women: The Portrayal of the Icelandic Family in two Novels by Halldór Laxness Parker, Robert Jennings Oster, Rose-Marie G Digital Repository at the University of Maryland University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) Germanic Language and Literature 2008-05-05 289749 bytes application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8233 en_US eng http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8233 Literature Germanic Scandinavian and Icelandic Laxness Independent People Family Paradise Reclaimed Thesis 2008 ftunivmaryland 2022-11-11T11:13:31Z Nobel Prize winning author Halldór Laxness enjoyed using the "typical" Icelandic farmer as his protagonist. Always at his side are his family members, with whom interactions are often very limited and rather reserved. Within the dynamic of this stoic family, there are several discourses to be seen, all of which speak to the state of women and the hierarchy of the family in Iceland during this somewhat depressing time in their history. The minimal presence of voice is apparent throughout the majority of Laxness' works and is especially present in Independent People (1946) and Paradise Reclaimed (1960). A general silence from all characters, husbands and wives as well as sons and daughters, is an important element and helps to better understand the culturally reserved Scandinavian people, especially Icelanders. Thesis Iceland University of Maryland: Digital Repository (DRUM) |
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Nobel Prize winning author Halldór Laxness enjoyed using the "typical" Icelandic farmer as his protagonist. Always at his side are his family members, with whom interactions are often very limited and rather reserved. Within the dynamic of this stoic family, there are several discourses to be seen, all of which speak to the state of women and the hierarchy of the family in Iceland during this somewhat depressing time in their history. The minimal presence of voice is apparent throughout the majority of Laxness' works and is especially present in Independent People (1946) and Paradise Reclaimed (1960). A general silence from all characters, husbands and wives as well as sons and daughters, is an important element and helps to better understand the culturally reserved Scandinavian people, especially Icelanders. |
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