Peder Victorious

Author : Ole Edvart R?lvaag
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803289065

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Peder Victorious by Ole Edvart R?lvaag Pdf

Peder Victorious, the sequel to Rölvaag's massive Giants in the Earth, continues the saga of the Norwegian settlers in the Dakotas. Here again, years later, are all the sturdy pioneers of the earlier novel, Rölvaag's "vikings of the prairie"—Per Hansa's Beret and their children, Syvert Tönseten and Kjersti, and Sörine. The great struggle against the land itself has been won. Now there is to be a second struggle, a struggle to adapt, to become Americans. The development of the Spring Creek settlement in these years is manifested in the rebellious growing up of Peder Victorious. Peder is a beautiful and moving novel of youth and youth's self-discovery. It is the story, too, of Beret's pain and dismay at the Americanization of her children, what Rölvaag described as the true tragedy of the immigrants, who made their children part of a world to which they themselves could never belong. Out of the inevitable conflict between the first-generation American and his still Norwegian mother, Rölvaag built a powerful novel of personal growth, guilt, and victory.

Author : Sacvan Bercovitch,Cyrus R. K. Patell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521497310

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The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 6, Prose Writing, 1910-1950 by Sacvan Bercovitch,Cyrus R. K. Patell Pdf

Volume 6 of The Cambridge History of American Literature explores the emergence and flowering of modernism in the United States. David Minter provides a cultural history of the American novel from the 'lyric years' to World War I, through post-World War I disillusionment, to the consolidation of the Left in response to the mire of the Great Depression. Rafia Zafar tells the story of the Harlem Renaissance, detailing the artistic accomplishments of such diverse figures as Zora Neal Hurston, W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Richard Wright. Werner Sollors examines canonical texts as well as popular magazines and hitherto unknown immigrant writing from the period. Taken together these narratives cover the entire range of literary prose written in the first half of the twentieth century, offering a model of literary history for our times, focusing as they do on the intricate interplay between text and context.

Author : Ole Edvart Rølvaag
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Norwegian Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015016906011

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Peder Victorious by Ole Edvart Rølvaag Pdf

Author : Øyvind Tveitereid Gulliksen
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0820462306

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Twofold Identities by Øyvind Tveitereid Gulliksen Pdf

Twofold Identities is a study of Midwestern American literature as well as of Norwegian-American immigrant texts. Many readers have judged the latter to be a mere reflection of immigrant experience, a judgment that is neither fair nor correct. These American writers were forced to confront an essentially modern experience complicated by the contextual duality of bilingualism. For early Midwestern immigrant writers and their readers, the task of homemaking in a new setting was a philosophically challenging and highly problematic endeavor. These Midwestern writers were not lost, divided, nor rootless. They had the unique privileged ability to draw on the resources of two worlds. As writers they enjoyed - and helped to strengthen - twofold identities.

Author : Ole Edvart Rolvaag
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1979-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 089987701X

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Peder Victorious by Ole Edvart Rolvaag Pdf

The development of the Spring Creek settlement in these years is manifested in the rebellious growing up of Peder Victorious. Peder is a beautiful and moving novel of youth and youth's self-discovery.

Author : Ronald Weber
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253363667

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The Midwestern Ascendancy in American Writing by Ronald Weber Pdf

For a half-century - from Edward Eggleston's pioneering novel The Hoosier Schoolmaster in 1871 through the dazzling early work of Hart Crane, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s - Midwestern literature was at the center of American writing. In The Midwestern Ascendancy in American Writing, Ronald Weber illuminates the sense of lost promise that gives rise to the elegiac note struck in many Midwestern works; he also addresses the deeply divided feelings about the region revealed in the contrary desires to abandon and to celebrate. The period of Midwestern cultural ascendancy was a time of tremendous social and technological change. Midwestern writing was a reflection of these societal changes; it was American literature.

Author : Harold Peter Simonson
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0875650406

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Beyond the Frontier by Harold Peter Simonson Pdf

Author : Judith Oster
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826264497

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Crossing Cultures by Judith Oster Pdf

"In this important new study, Judith Oster looks at the literature of Chinese Americans and Jewish Americans in relation to each other. Examining what is most at issue for both groups as they live between two cultures, languages, and environments, Oster focuses on the struggles of protagonists to form identities that are necessarily bicultural and always in process. Recognizing what poststructuralism has demonstrated regarding the instability of the subject and the impossibility of a unitary identity, Oster contends that the writers of these works are attempting to shore up the fragments, to construct, through their texts, some sort of wholeness and to answer at least partially the questions Who am I? and Where do I belong?" --Book Jacket.

Author : Gordon Hutner
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807832271

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What America Read by Gordon Hutner Pdf

Despite the vigorous study of modern American fiction, today's readers are only familiar with a partial shelf of a vast library. Gordon Hutner describes the distorted, canonized history of the twentieth-century American novel as a record of modern classic

Author : Western Literature Association (U.S.)
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 1408 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : American literature
ISBN : 087565021X

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A Literary History of the American West by Western Literature Association (U.S.) Pdf

Literary histories, of course, do not have a reason for being unless there exists the literature itself. This volume, perhaps more than others of its kind, is an expression of appreciation for the talented and dedicated literary artists who ignored the odds, avoided temptations to write for popularity or prestige, and chose to write honestly about the American West, believing that experiences long knowns to be of historical importance are also experiences that need and deserve a literature of importance.

Author : Ole Edvart Rølvaag
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : UOM:39015032034640

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Peder Victorious by Ole Edvart Rølvaag Pdf

"Second volume of the trilogy [beginning with Giants in the earth], concerned with the second generation of Norwegian immigrants." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation

Author : Robert Wells
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1985-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438423838

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Uncle Sam's Family by Robert Wells Pdf

This work introduces readers to the basics of demographic history, touching on issues of interest to anyone concerned with understanding how we have come to live as we do and what the future may bring. It also focuses directly on matters of birth, death, and migration. Uncle Sam's Family shows readers why historians, and others, have become interested in these topics, how they are studied, and what are some of the most intriguing recent findings. This is done in non-technical language, with a number of figures and tables designed and selected to make the material easy to understand. The book also examines how fundamental changes in family patterns have occurred in response to declining birth rates, increased longevity, and levels of immigration. Of special interest here is a chart (Figure 10), to help students understand how their own lives and the experiences of their families relate to some of the major trends in American history. The text ranges beyond traditional sources of information about population, showing what can be learned from novels, contemporary language, political struggles, and discussions about the nature of family life.

Author : Western Literature Association (U.S.)
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0875651755

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Updating the Literary West by Western Literature Association (U.S.) Pdf

Given in honor of District Governor Hugh Summers and Mrs. Ahnise Summers by the Rotary Club of Aggieland with matching support from the Sara and John H. Lindsey '44 Fund, Texas A & M University Press, 2004.

Author : Werner Sollors
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0674030915

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Ethnic Modernism by Werner Sollors Pdf

Werner Sollors's monograph looks into how African American, European immigrant and other minority writers gave the United States its increasingly multicultural self-awareness, focusing on their use of the strategies opened up by modernism.

Author : Poul Houe,Sven Hakon Rossel
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9042006218

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Images of America in Scandinavia by Poul Houe,Sven Hakon Rossel Pdf

The subject of Images of America in Scandinavia, the first comprehensive study of its kind, is as multifaceted, complex, and overwhelming as America or the United States, itself. It concerns the nature and function, reality and fiction of such images in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden past and present. The book is intended to be a source of solid information as well as a starting point for further inquiries into its cultural territory. Part of its focus is on images of America rooted in printed sources, but, in addition, general surveys of other cultural signs of America in the Scandinavian countries present a broader picture and provide some of the background for the predominantly literary images. Issues such as government and politics, popular and vanguard music and art, and socio-cultural institutions intermittently come to the fore.Framing the volume's three pairs of national surveys is an introductory chapter, which addresses the entire subject from a bird's-eye view, and a concluding chapter, which, by contrast, delves into the cross-fire of sentiments defining people whose images of America, are both American and Scandinavian. The discussion of America as perceived in Scandinavia sheds new light on intriguing inter-Scandinavian cultural distinctions and borderlines.Countless books and articles, methods and theories, have been devoted to the study of national and cultural identity. Still, the exchanges between such identities and the images they engender - so indispensable for the participants in a global culture - remain clouded by many misconceptions. Images of America in Scandinaviawhose editors and authors all have Scandinavian backgrounds, will contribute an improved understanding of the cultural interplay between Scandinavia and the United States of America.