The Problem with Biblical Motifs in Knut Hamsun’s Growth of the Soil

Religion does not play a major role in Norwegian Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun’s work. The one brilliant exception to this detached and seemingly cavalier attitude toward religion or, should I say, Christianity, is Hamsun’s masterpiece, Growth of the Soil (1917), which won him the Nobel Prize in liter...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tom Conner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2018-12-01
Series:Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur
Subjects:
Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/4411