To read my entire dissertation chapter on Hoem's text, download
it as a PDF. It is essentially a proof that the
novel is postmodern. It includes the following:
Background
- The Early Scholarship
- Late 20th Century Scholarship
- Unlikely Bed Partners: Socialist Realism and Postmodernism
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven: Debunking Decade Designations in Norwegian Literary History
Postmodernism in Kjærleikens ferjereiser
- Hoem's Postmodern Fictional Zone
- Breaks the Frame
- Problematizes Fact/Fiction
- Blends Popular Culture and High Culture
- Revises Tradition
- Revisits History
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