A hero in the friendly Arctic : deconstructing Vilhjalmur Stefansson's rhetorical maneuver

• Main Author: Gaupseth, Silje
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Tromsø 2012
• Subjects: VDP::Humanities: 000::Literary disciplines: 040::General literary science: 041; VDP::Humaniora: 000::Litteraturvitenskapelige fag: 040::Allmenn litteraturvitenskap: 041; Arctic; Stefansson; eskimo*
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/4475

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...