Oddvar Holmesland
Biographic Data
| ID | 4044327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oddvar Holmesland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oddvar |
| FAMILY NAME | Holmesland |
| SIGNATURE | HOLMESLAND O |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5117-5554 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Dialectics of Pleasure in Thomas More’s Utopia
Thomas More’s Utopia represents not a pleasurable alternative world, but rather a debate on how to make life more pleasurable in the actual world. It involves a tussling with questions of truth in an age in which unifying transcendental answers were giving way to more instrumental solutions as demanded by the growth of mercantile city-states. This article traces the function of pleasure in Utopia as a dialectically mediating agent on the recognit…
Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
Since the publication of Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave in 1688, critics have been intrigued by its contradictoriness. Any attempt to classify the work as a romance, novel, or travel narrative, respectively, becomes reductive. Behn's narrative appears as an amalgam of these genres. 1 To what extent its romance features subjugate its realism, or vice versa, is a complex issue. A related question is how the respective modes interact so as to convey …
Joyce Cary
Freedom and community in Joyce Cary's fiction
Structuralism and interpretation
(1986). Structuralism and interpretation: Ernest Hemingway's ‘cat in the rain’. English Studies: Vol. 67, No. 3, pp. 221-233
Patricia Waugh
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Patricia Waugh
Structuralism and interpretation
(1986). Structuralism and interpretation: Ernest Hemingway's ‘cat in the rain’. English Studies: Vol. 67, No. 3, pp. 221-233
Freedom and community in Joyce Cary's fiction
Joyce Cary
Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
Since the publication of Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave in 1688, critics have been intrigued by its contradictoriness. Any attempt to classify the work as a romance, novel, or travel narrative, respectively, becomes reductive. Behn's narrative appears as an amalgam of these genres. 1 To what extent its romance features subjugate its realism, or vice versa, is a complex issue. A related question is how the respective modes interact so as to convey …
Dialectics of Pleasure in Thomas More’s Utopia
Thomas More’s Utopia represents not a pleasurable alternative world, but rather a debate on how to make life more pleasurable in the actual world. It involves a tussling with questions of truth in an age in which unifying transcendental answers were giving way to more instrumental solutions as demanded by the growth of mercantile city-states. This article traces the function of pleasure in Utopia as a dialectically mediating agent on the recognit…
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