Open AccessKNUT HAMSUN – STEMNINGSDIKTER
Author(s) -
Atle Tord Nordøy
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
nordlit
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1503-2086
pISSN - 0809-1668
DOI - 10.7557/13.3749
Subject(s) - norwegian , object (grammar) , subject (documents) , epistemology , semantics (computer science) , sociology , linguistics , psychology , computer science , philosophy , world wide web , programming language
In this essay I take a closer look at the Norwegian concept of stemning, and how this concept has been applied to Hamsun’s early work. I look at both the semantics and the history of the concept, and at Hamsun’s own use of it. The main insight of this investigation is that stemning is a concept that is not limited to subjective or objective experience, but must be understood outside of the object/subject dichotomy. These insights are then used in an analysis of Hamsun’s short story, ”Onde dage”, where I show that Hamsun is not trying to capture a subjective experience, but a common human reality.