Making of Arctic heroes. Charles Brower’s Fifty Years below Zero, Jan Welzl’s Thirty Years in the Golden North, and ideas of Arctic heroism and national character
This thesis examines literary representation and imaginative construction of arctic heroism and national character in autobiographical memoirs Fifty years Below Zero by Charles Brower (an U.S. writer) and Thirty Years in the Golden North by Jan Welzl (a Czech author from the Austro-Hungarian Empire)...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/7073 2023-05-15T14:43:54+02:00 Making of Arctic heroes. Charles Brower’s Fifty Years below Zero, Jan Welzl’s Thirty Years in the Golden North, and ideas of Arctic heroism and national character Pokorna, Michaela 2014-11-19 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/7073 eng eng UiT Norges arktiske universitet UiT The Arctic University of Norway https://hdl.handle.net/10037/7073 URN:NBN:no-uit_munin_6644 openAccess Copyright 2014 The Author(s) VDP::Humanities: 000::Literary disciplines: 040::English literature: 043 VDP::Humaniora: 000::Litteraturvitenskapelige fag: 040::Engelsk litteratur: 043 the Arctic heroism nation-building Last Frontier narratives Brower Welzl ENG-3992 Master thesis Mastergradsoppgave 2014 ftunivtroemsoe 2021-06-25T17:54:04Z This thesis examines literary representation and imaginative construction of arctic heroism and national character in autobiographical memoirs Fifty years Below Zero by Charles Brower (an U.S. writer) and Thirty Years in the Golden North by Jan Welzl (a Czech author from the Austro-Hungarian Empire). I discuss the ways Brower and Welzl fashion heroic images of themselves in their texts, and how these heroic images fit into the paradigm of turn-of-the-century heroic polar literature and the paradigm of the national character in American and Czech nation-building pedagogical discourses in the times when the narratives were published. I thereby examine a position of Brower’s and Welzl’s texts within the framework of national ideology related, in Brower’s case, to Alaska as the ‘Last Frontier’, and, in Welzl’s case, to the emergence of independent Czechoslovakia. The conclusion I draw is that the narrators became national Arctic heroes and their narratives popular partly because their narratives and self-portrayals satisfied the demands of the genres of polar literature, but partly also because they challenged the very ideas on which these genres had been formed. Master Thesis Arctic Alaska University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic |
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This thesis examines literary representation and imaginative construction of arctic heroism and national character in autobiographical memoirs Fifty years Below Zero by Charles Brower (an U.S. writer) and Thirty Years in the Golden North by Jan Welzl (a Czech author from the Austro-Hungarian Empire). I discuss the ways Brower and Welzl fashion heroic images of themselves in their texts, and how these heroic images fit into the paradigm of turn-of-the-century heroic polar literature and the paradigm of the national character in American and Czech nation-building pedagogical discourses in the times when the narratives were published. I thereby examine a position of Brower’s and Welzl’s texts within the framework of national ideology related, in Brower’s case, to Alaska as the ‘Last Frontier’, and, in Welzl’s case, to the emergence of independent Czechoslovakia. The conclusion I draw is that the narrators became national Arctic heroes and their narratives popular partly because their narratives and self-portrayals satisfied the demands of the genres of polar literature, but partly also because they challenged the very ideas on which these genres had been formed. |
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Making of Arctic heroes. Charles Brower’s Fifty Years below Zero, Jan Welzl’s Thirty Years in the Golden North, and ideas of Arctic heroism and national character |
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Making of Arctic heroes. Charles Brower’s Fifty Years below Zero, Jan Welzl’s Thirty Years in the Golden North, and ideas of Arctic heroism and national character |
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Making of Arctic heroes. Charles Brower’s Fifty Years below Zero, Jan Welzl’s Thirty Years in the Golden North, and ideas of Arctic heroism and national character |
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Making of Arctic heroes. Charles Brower’s Fifty Years below Zero, Jan Welzl’s Thirty Years in the Golden North, and ideas of Arctic heroism and national character |
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Making of Arctic heroes. Charles Brower’s Fifty Years below Zero, Jan Welzl’s Thirty Years in the Golden North, and ideas of Arctic heroism and national character |
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making of arctic heroes. charles brower’s fifty years below zero, jan welzl’s thirty years in the golden north, and ideas of arctic heroism and national character |
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UiT Norges arktiske universitet |
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2014 |
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Arctic Alaska |
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