Inger-Anne Søfting
Biographic Data
| ID | 5400424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Inger-Anne Søfting |
| GIVEN NAMES | Inger-Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Søfting |
| SIGNATURE | SØFTING I |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Studies, The University of South-Eastern Norway, Boe, Norway |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4419-5826 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Entangled lives
This article investigates the construction of character in Toni Morrison’s novel Love, arguing that its characters are dialogically constructed in multiple ways and that this relational structure reflects the novel’s thematic focus on interhuman relationships. The primary focus for the discussion is the way that various genres are brought into play in the presentation of two of the novel’s most central characters, Heed and Christine, whose fraugh…
Everything Kills Everything Else in Some Way”
Between Dystopia and Utopia
This article examines the relationship between good and evil and hope and despair in Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road. It is a novel that tells a classical, almost mythical story and throughout its discourse it touches contrasting yet related opposites: it is the story of man against the elements, and it is a matter of life or death; not only the life and death of its individual characters but of humanity as such. The article discusses how McCart…
Desert Pandemonium
What are the roots that clutch what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you h o w only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding beh…
Carnival and Black American Music as Counterculture in Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye' and 'Jazz
Between Dystopia and Utopia
This article examines the relationship between good and evil and hope and despair in Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road. It is a novel that tells a classical, almost mythical story and throughout its discourse it touches contrasting yet related opposites: it is the story of man against the elements, and it is a matter of life or death; not only the life and death of its individual characters but of humanity as such. The article discusses how McCart…
Carnival and Black American Music as Counterculture in Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye' and 'Jazz
Desert Pandemonium
What are the roots that clutch what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you h o w only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding beh…
Between Dystopia and Utopia
This article examines the relationship between good and evil and hope and despair in Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road. It is a novel that tells a classical, almost mythical story and throughout its discourse it touches contrasting yet related opposites: it is the story of man against the elements, and it is a matter of life or death; not only the life and death of its individual characters but of humanity as such. The article discusses how McCart…
Entangled lives
This article investigates the construction of character in Toni Morrison’s novel Love, arguing that its characters are dialogically constructed in multiple ways and that this relational structure reflects the novel’s thematic focus on interhuman relationships. The primary focus for the discussion is the way that various genres are brought into play in the presentation of two of the novel’s most central characters, Heed and Christine, whose fraugh…
Everything Kills Everything Else in Some Way”
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