Blar i Faculty of Humanities and Education på forfatter "Langås, Unni"
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"22. juli." Litterære konstruksjoner av et nasjonalt traume.
Langås, Unni (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Following the right wing fanatic Anders Behring Breivik’s terrorist attacks on Norway, July 22, 2011, we observe an instant need for literature. These literary responses may be grouped into four main stages. The first is ... -
Arkivet som kunstnerisk konsept. Monica Aasprongs Soldatmarkedet.
Langås, Unni (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)The Archive as an Artistic Concept. Monica Aasprong's Soldatmarkedet (Soldiers' Market). -
Between Experience and Representation : Intimacy and Identity in Texts by Vita Andersen and Marion Hagen
Langås, Unni (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)The article discusses the concepts of postmodern intimacy and identity in two Scandinavian texts. The short story collection "Hold Kæft og vær smuk" or "Shut Up and Be Lovely" by Vita Andersen and the novel "Akt" or "Nude" ... -
Det indeksikalske bildet. Erindringsspor i Tua Forsströms diktsamling En kväll i oktober rodde jag ut på sjön.
Langås, Unni (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Artikkelen gir en tolkning av Tua Forsströms diktsamling En kväll i oktober rodde jag ut på sjön fra 2012. Den handler om noe eller noen som er blitt borte, og om minnene om noe som ikke lenger er sansbart til stede. ... -
Dialogues in poetry: an essay on Eldrid Lunden
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'Du torkar pannan med en ros och rekommenderar dess törnen.' Nordisk blomsterdiktning på 2000-tallet
Langås, Unni (Modernisme i nordisk lyrikk;5, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2012)Artikkelen handler om hvordan behov for systematikk er uttrykt i dikt med blomstermotiv hos Pia Paulina Nykänen, Fredrik Nyberg og Øyvind Rimbereid. Diktsamlingene tolkes i lys av botanikkens systematiseringsarbeid og Inger ... -
Fanget av fortid : tre traumefortellinger av Jon Fosse
Langås, Unni (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Focusing on three narratives by Jon Fosse, Naustet (1989), Det er Ales (2004) and Olavs draumar (2012), I argue that a main theme in his work is a recurring concern with human responses to critical experiences of the past. ... -
Hva kan arves? Om skyld, vold og seksualitet i to nordiske krigsminneromaner.
Langås, Unni (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)During the last two decades, an increasing focus on perpetrators has emerged in Scandinavian literature. This so called perpetrator fiction, with an explicit intention of understanding evil, has portrayed the Nazis and ... -
«Jeg skaper meg en ny klode». Fiktive verdener og Ellen Einans lyrikk
Pitronova, Eva (Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder; no. 401, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This thesis examines the fictional potential of lyric poetry and demonstrates a fiction-based analysis on writings of the Norwegian poet Ellen Einan. In addition to the theoretical discussion of fictional worlds of lyric ... -
Krigsminner i nye norske romaner
Langås, Unni (Chapter, 2021)In this article, I analyze three novelistic projects from the last decade, i.e., Jon Michelet’s six-volume work En sjøens helt (2012-2018), Simon Stranger’s Leksikon om lys og mørke (2018), and Kjartan Fløgstad’s Due og ... -
Nærhed på afstand hos Hanne Ørstavik
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Om å bære dødens tyngde : fotografier og visuelle fortellestrategier i Gaute Heivolls roman Himmelarkivet
Langås, Unni (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Himmelarkivet (2008) by Gaute Heivoll is part of an international trend of fiction concerned with traumatic events from World War II reflecting on the question of how these events should be described and understood. One ... -
Terrorizing Images and Traumatic Anticipation in Michael Cunningham’s The Hours
Langås, Unni (Chapter, 2020)Unni Langås’s chapter is a reading of The Hours (1998), which echoes not only Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925), but also Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920). From Woolf’s post-WWI novel, Cunningham ... -
Terrorizing Images and Traumatic Anticipation in Michael Cunningham’s The Hours
Langås, Unni (Chapter, 2020)Unni Langås’s chapter is a reading of The Hours (1998), which echoes not only Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925), but also Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920). From Woolf’s post-WWI novel, Cunningham ... -
Terrorizing Images. Trauma and Ekphrasis in Contemporary Literature
Langås, Unni; Armstrong, Charles Ivan (Book, 2020)This book combines two focal points: trauma and ekphrasis. It responds to the recognition of how terrorizing images permeate the public sphere in connection with traumatic experiences and confl icts and emphasizes the ways ... -
Trauma fiction and media images in two Norwegian novels.
Langås, Unni (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Described images may have a number of meanings and functions in a novel. In trauma fiction, narrated images have traditionally often been photographs, and much of the theoretical discussion deals with this text-photo ... -
Urban Space and Gender Performativity in Knut Hamsun's Hunger and Cora Sandel's Alberta and Freedom.
Langås, Unni (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Abstract: In this article, I discuss the combination of city life and gender performativity in two Norwegian classics, Knut Hamsun’s Hunger (2016) [Sult, 1890] and Cora Sandel’s Alberta and Freedom (1984) [Alberte og ...