Alvhild Dvergsdal
Lecture at The Hamsun Centre , Wednesday, August 5
Subject and research officer at The Hamsun Centre
Alvhild Dvergsdal (b. 1963) is responsible for academic and research at The Hamsun Centre . She received her Ph.D. from Aarhus University in 1993 with a thesis on Oehlenschläger's tragedies. Her research has primarily focused on Nordic Enlightenment and Romanticism, rhetoric and poetics, and for the last 10 years on Knut Hamsun. Alvhild Dvergsdal was responsible for the content of the Hamsun Center's new permanent exhibition "The Controversial Hamsun" (2024).
From the Modern Spiritual Life of America (1889) has been considered one of Hamsun's more frivolous and exaggerated books. In light of today's political situation in the United States, it may seem as if the author has hit the nail on the head. Dvergsdal looks at this in more detail in the lecture "Hamsun's Analysis of the Spiritual Life of America" and at the same time asks: Can the analyses of America provide a greater understanding of the modern literary work that Hamsun was about to start?
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