Reading list for NOR1403: World Literature from Norway
Njal’s Saga (Penguin Classics), translated by Robert Cook. London: Penguin Books, 2002.
Ludvig Holberg: Erasmus Montanus. Out of print. To be made available as a photocopy.
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson: Sunny Hill. Out of print. To be made available as a photocopy.
Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House. Four Major Plays: A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, the
Master Builder (Oxford World's Classics), translated by James McFarlane and Jens Arup.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Knut Hamsun: Hunger, translated by Sverre Lyngstad, Edinburgh: Canongate, 2001.
Knut Hamsun: Pan, translated by Sverre Lyngstad, London: Penguin Books.
Sigrid Undset: Jenny, translated by Tiina Nunnally, Zoland Books, 1998.
Tarjei Vesaas: The Birds, translated by Torbjørn Støverud and Michael Barnes, London: Peter
Owen, 1995.
Rolf Jacobsen: “Did I Know You?” Rolf Jacobsen, translated and edited by Roger Greenwald,
Oslo: Gyldendal, 1997.
Jon Fosse: Someone Is Going to Come, translated by Gregory Motton in Jon Fosse: Plays
One, London: Oberon Books, 2002.
Harald Næss: A History of Norwegian Literature, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
1993.
Joan Templeton: “The Poetry of Feminism,” chapter in Joan Templeton, Ibsen’s Women,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
James McFarlane: “Ibsen and Ibsenism” and “Drama and Society”, chapters in James
McFarlane: Ibsen and Meaning. Studies, Essays and Prefaces 1953-87, Norwich: Norvik
Press 1989.
Bjørn Hemmer: “Ibsen and the Realistic Problem Drama” in James McFarlane (ed.): The
Cambridge Companion to Ibsen; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Atle Kittang: “Knut Hamsun’s Sult: Psychological Deep Structures and Metapoetic Plot,” in
Janet Garton (ed.): Facets of European Modernism, Norwich 1985.
Janet Garton: “Sigrid Undset,” chapter in Janet Garton: Norwegian Women’s Writing 18501990, London: Athlone Press, 1993.
Asbjørn Aarseth: “The Modes of Norwegian Modernism” in Janet Gartron (ed.): Facets of
European Modernism, Norwich 1985.