Anna Karenina i Arktis: Tekst og landskap i Aritha van Herks Places Far From Ellesmere
Anna Karenina in the Arctic: Text and Landscape in Aritha van Herk’s Places Far From Ellesmere The Arctic is an imagined space as much as a geographical place; our ideas and understanding of the region are based both in the fictional and the factual. Aritha van Herk’s Places Far From Ell...
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| description | Anna Karenina in the Arctic:
Text and Landscape in Aritha van Herk’s Places Far From Ellesmere
The Arctic is an imagined space as much as a geographical place;
our ideas and understanding of the region are based both in the
fictional and the factual. Aritha van Herk’s Places Far
From Ellesmere (1990) combines multiple genres in its experimental
rendering of the author’s journey to the Canadian north, thus touching
upon the issues of genre and the boundaries, or rather the lack
of such boundaries, between the fictional and the factual in the
literature of the Arctic. The article examines how van Herk’s text
contests the genre conventions of exploration narratives through
the traveller’s self-representation and by making Anna Karenina a
key text in the account of her journey. These features, the article argues,
are decisive to van Herk’s feminist critique of Tolstoy’s novel,
as well as of exploration writing on the Arctic generally, and also
point to the recurring issue of fact and fiction in the literature
of the Arctic. |
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| spellingShingle | Janicke Stensvaag Kaasa Anna Karenina i Arktis: Tekst og landskap i Aritha van Herks Places Far From Ellesmere Norsk Litteraturvitenskapelig Tidsskrift Arctic literature exploration writing Aritha van Herk Places Far From Ellesmere genre conventions Arcticliterature |
| title | Anna Karenina i Arktis: Tekst og landskap
i Aritha van Herks Places Far From Ellesmere |
| title_full | Anna Karenina i Arktis: Tekst og landskap
i Aritha van Herks Places Far From Ellesmere |
| title_fullStr | Anna Karenina i Arktis: Tekst og landskap
i Aritha van Herks Places Far From Ellesmere |
| title_full_unstemmed | Anna Karenina i Arktis: Tekst og landskap
i Aritha van Herks Places Far From Ellesmere |
| title_short | Anna Karenina i Arktis: Tekst og landskap
i Aritha van Herks Places Far From Ellesmere |
| title_sort | anna karenina i arktis tekst og landskap i aritha van herks places far from ellesmere |
| topic | Arctic literature exploration writing Aritha van Herk Places Far From Ellesmere genre conventions Arcticliterature |
| url | https://www.idunn.no/nlvt/2018/01/anna_karenina_i_arktis_tekst_og_landskap_i_aritha_van_herk |
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