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Literary texts:

Njal`s saga (Penguin Classics), translated by Robert Cook: London 2002.

Ludvig Holberg: Erasmus Montanus. Out of print. To be available as a photocopy.

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson: Sunny Hill. Out of print. (Photocopy in Kompendium 1-2)

Henrik Ibsen: Peer Gynt, translated by John Northam. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1995.

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. Penguin Twentieth Century Classics, 1998.

Sigrid Undset: The Bridal Wreath, translated by Tiina Nunnally. Penguin Twentieth Century Classics, 1997.

Tarjei Vesaas: The Birds, translated by Torbjørn Støverud and Michael Barnes, London: Peter Owen, 1995.

Selected poems by Rolf Jacobsen, Olav H. Hauge and Cecilie Løveid. (Photocopy)

Linn Ullmann: Before you sleep, translated by Tiina Nunnally. London: Picador, 2000.

Jon Fosse: Someone Is Going to Come, translated by Gregory Motton in Jon Fosse: Plays One, London: Oberon Books, 2002.

History of literature and literary criticism:

Harald Næss: A History of Norwegian Literature, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. (Copies available at the University Library)

Joan Templeton: Cp. 5 “The Poetry of Feminism,” in Joan Templeton, Ibsen’s Women, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 110-145. (Photocopy in Kompendium 1-2)

James McFarlane: Cp. 2 “Ibsen and Ibsenism” and Cp. 9 “Drama and Society”, in James McFarlane: Ibsen and Meaning. Studies, Essays and Prefaces 1953-87, Norwich: Norvik Press 1989, pp. 45-66 and pp. 232-250. (Photocopy in Kompendium 1-2)

Bjørn Hemmer: Cp. 5 “Ibsen and the Realistic Problem Drama” in James McFarlane (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 68-88. (Photocopy in Kompendium 1-2)

Atle Kittang: “Knut Hamsun’s Sult: Psychological Deep Structures and Metapoetic Plot,” in Janet Garton (ed.): Facets of European Modernism, Norwich 1985, pp. 295-308. (Photocopy in Kompendium 1-2)

Janet Garton: Cp. 6 “Sigrid Undset,” in Janet Garton: Norwegian Women’s Writing 1850-1990, London: Athlone Press, 1993, pp. 87-108. (Photocopy in Kompendium 1-2)

Asbjørn Aarseth: “The Modes of Norwegian Modernism” in James McFarlane & Janet Gartron (ed.): Facets of European Modernism, Norwich 1985, pp.323-347. (Photocopy in Kompendium 1-2)

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