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AUTHOR
Morten Bartnæs
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Syv artikler om kulde og litteratur
2014
Doktorgradsavhandling, Fakultet for humaniora og pedagogikk, Universitetet i Agder
Hav, hage, teater og temperatur i Cora Sandels <i>Alberte</i>-bøker
2010
Current readings of Cora Sandel’s Alberta-trilogy (1926-1939) frequently tend to reuse the novels’ imagery in their own descriptive and interpretive statements – instead of treating this characteristic of the novels with the same degree of attention as, e.g., the trilogy’s psychological and political aspects, or its narrative technique. The present article attempts to draw attention to the trilogy’s imagery as a both autonomous and integral element in Cora Sandel’s novelistic art. Three metaphorical ways of thought which show their presence throughout the trilogy, are singled out: In the novels, the persons (and thus, implicitly or explicitly, the human condition) are frequently pictured as…