“Our own Home”: Negotiated Nature in Symra

Abstract This article examines both the pastoral and anti-pastoral tendencies in Ivar Aasen’s Symra by focusing on the depiction of heim. Aasen uses heim to promote a pastoral that runs counter to the bourgeois idea of nature and the rural relationship to it as passive. This pastoral sug...

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Main Author: Jenna Coughlin
Format: Article
Language:Danish
Published: Scandinavian University Press/Universitetsforlaget 2021-01-01
Series:Edda
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Online Access:https://www.idunn.no/edda/2021/03/our_own_home_negotiated_nature_in_symra_______