Knut Hamsun's Criticism of Shakespeare

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Knut Hamsun's Criticism of Shakespeare

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) is often regarded as Norway&apos;s greatest prose writer. This article analyzes his statements on Shakespeare from his essays and lectures from around 1890. The 1880s were the heyday of Realism and Naturalism in Norway, and Hamsun was trying to make space for a different type of literature which he himself called ʻpsychologicalʼ and which one nowadays often sees as early modernist. In his attacks on some of the great authors of his time, as well as canonical writers of previous centuries, he criticizes Shakespeare, among others, and claims that Shakespeare&apos;s characters are extremely flat. Some of Hamsun&apos;s arguments are crude, superficial and amusing, but his statements nonetheless constitute an interesting case of Shakespeare reception. This article shows that some of the Norwegian writer&apos;s pronouncements about Shakespeare are in accord with his proto-modernist literary programme. In addition, the article compares his disparaging remarks with those of two other detractors of Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy and G. B. Shaw, and concludes that Hamsun and Shaw share the same strategy: they use scandalous statements about Shakespeare in order to shake contemporary readers and gain their own place in the sun.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Knut Hamsun's Criticism of Shakespeare

Popis výsledku anglicky

The Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) is often regarded as Norway&apos;s greatest prose writer. This article analyzes his statements on Shakespeare from his essays and lectures from around 1890. The 1880s were the heyday of Realism and Naturalism in Norway, and Hamsun was trying to make space for a different type of literature which he himself called ʻpsychologicalʼ and which one nowadays often sees as early modernist. In his attacks on some of the great authors of his time, as well as canonical writers of previous centuries, he criticizes Shakespeare, among others, and claims that Shakespeare&apos;s characters are extremely flat. Some of Hamsun&apos;s arguments are crude, superficial and amusing, but his statements nonetheless constitute an interesting case of Shakespeare reception. This article shows that some of the Norwegian writer&apos;s pronouncements about Shakespeare are in accord with his proto-modernist literary programme. In addition, the article compares his disparaging remarks with those of two other detractors of Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy and G. B. Shaw, and concludes that Hamsun and Shaw share the same strategy: they use scandalous statements about Shakespeare in order to shake contemporary readers and gain their own place in the sun.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60205 - Literary theory

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Kreativita a adaptabilita jako předpoklad úspěchu Evropy v propojeném světě</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries: Shifting Centres and Peripheries in the Nineteenth Century

ISBN

978-1-350-20086-9

Počet stran výsledku

21

Strana od-do

269-289

Počet stran knihy

324

Název nakladatele

Bloomsbury

Místo vydání

Londýn

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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