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Modernist troublemaker in the 1890s, Nobel Prize winner in 1920, and indefensible Nazi sympathiser in the 1930s and 40s, Knut Hamsun continues to provoke condemnation, apologia and critical confusion. Informed by the works of Jacques Derrida and Sigmund Freud, Troubling Legacies analyses the heterogeneous and conflicted legacies of the enigmatic European writer, Hamsun. Moving through different phases of his life, this study emphasises the dislocated nature of Hamsun's works and the diverse and conflicting responses his fiction elicited from such figures as Franz Kafka, Katherine Mansfield, Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger. Close readings of the major novels Hunger, Mysteries, Pan and Growth of the Soil are presented alongside lesser known writings, including his early polemic on America, his turn-of-the-century travelogue through Russia, his fascist polemics of the 1930s and 40s, and his controversial post-war testimony, On Overgrown Paths. Troubling Legacies links past debates with contemporary literary theory and deconstruction in a way that contributes to critical thinking about political responsibility.
Contents
Foreword by Professor Douglas Davies (University of Durham, UK); Introduction; 1. Interpretive Frameworks Total Social Phenomenon The Confucian-Christian Interplay in Korea Embodiment, Exchange and Material Culture; 2. Bible-Copying (Ritual before Death) The Practice of Copying the Bible An Historical-Theological Analysis of Bible-Copying A Sociological -Anthropological Analysis of Bible-Copying; 3. Funerary Practice (Ritual at Death) Changing Funeral Customs in Contemporary Korea An Historical-Theological Analysis of Funerary Practice A Sociological-Anthropological Analysis of Funerary Practice; 4. Ancestral Rites (Ritual After Death) Ancestral Ritual and Christianity in Korea (1784-2006) An Historical-Theological Analysis of Ancestral Rites A Sociological-Anthropological Analysis of Ancestral Rites; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
