Literature and Honour
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The articles included in this volume emanate from the project 'After Honour', initiated by the research group 'Literature and Affect', Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, at the University of Oslo. The following 15 articles are written by scholars from Norway, Denmark and Iceland. In May 2015, the research group arranged a kick-off workshop, and during the autumn we organized two seminars, each followed by workshop: 'Honour, war and violence in literature' (25 September), and 'The welfare state and the fall of honour groups' (20 November). In Spring 2016, the Master’ course NOR4460 'Literature and honour' was a part of the teaching portfolio at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies. It was led by Thorstein Norheim, and several of the contributors to this volume, and research group members, contributed with lectures. 1. THE CONCEPT OF HONOUR AND HONOUR NARRATIVES / Thorstein Norheim and Aasta Marie Bjorvand Bjørkøy 13 I 13 II 17 III 23 IV 25 V 27 VI 31 Bibliography 32 PART 1: HISTORY OF THE DECLINE OF HONOUR CULTURE IN THE WEST 2. CODE OF HONOUR UNDER DEBATE IN TWO ICELANDIC SAGAS / Jon Gunnar Jørgensen 37 Introduction 37 The Sagas of Icelanders 38 The clan society 39 The Church 40 Transitional period 40 Gisli Sursson’s saga 41 Honour killing 42 The killing of Vestein and Gisli’s revenge 43 The killing of Thorkel 45 Gisli’s downfall 46 Ambivalence 46 Problematic honour 48 The Saga of Thorgils and Haflidi 48 Words for honour and shame in the two sagas 50 Conclusion – A new code of honour 55 Bibliography 56 3. THE PRICE OF INTEGRITY / Simen Syvertsen 57 Saga and honour – earlier research 58 Egil’s saga 61 Conclusion 77 Bibliography 80 4. HONOUR, SAGAS AND TRAUMA / Torfi H. Tulinius 81 Gissur and his revenge 83 Death instinct and literature 86 Expression in literature 88 Conclusion: Reconstructing a troubled identity in traumatic times 93 Bibliography 93 5. THE VALUE OF THE FACE / Jan Erik Rekdal 95 Bibliography 102 PART 2: THE INDIVIDUALISATION OF THE CONCEPT OF HONOUR 6. AFTER HONOR / Per Thomas Andersen 105 I. Old norse culture of honor 108 II. Karl Ove Knausgård: My Struggle 118 Bibliography 127 7. MEN’S AND WOMEN’S HONOUR / Anne-Marie Mai 129 To sacrifice one’s honour 129 Honourable emancipation 133 Welfare and honour 136 Honour, body and sexuality 137 An honourable morality 138 Towards regimentation 141 Bibliography 144 8. 'HIS NAME IS MAN!' / Mads Breckan Claudi 145 Thomas Carlyle and heroes 148 Poetry and strength 152 The great and the small 155 Admiration and progress 160 Conclusion 166 Bibliography 168 9. THE GENEALOGY OF BELLIGERENT AFFECTS / Mikkel Bruun Zangenberg 170 Initial inroad 170 Clarifying digression 172 Spain 1605 174 The United States of America, 1982 176 Copenhagen, Denmark 1843 178 Enzensberger’s radical losers, 2005 180 Somewhere in the desert of Pakistan, post 9-11 183 Towards the liberating loss of honour 184 Bibliography 185 PART 3: HONOUR IN THE LATE MODERN WELFARE STATE 10. 'AT DEAD OF NIGHT' / Thorstein Norheim 189 Macht und Rebel as a literary dystopia 191 Macht und Rebel as a story of honour 206 An evil and unreadable novel? 215 Bibliography 216 11. HONOR CODES IN FANTASY LITERATURE / Cecilie Takle 217 Preface 217 The dichotomy Shame and Honor as Subcategories of Ethics 19 Ethics in Literature 222 Ethics and the Fantastic in Literature 224 Honor Codes in The Raven Rings 225 Shame as a Weapon: The Shamer Chronicles by Lene Kaaberbøl 230 Postface 232 Bibliography 232 12. TO AGE WITH HONOUR / Peter Simonsen 234 Charlotte Strandgaard as author of the welfare state 236 Strandgaard’s welfare theme and style 238 'No Man’s Land' as Welfare State Poetry About Old Age and Honour 241 Bibliography 247 13. AGEING AND DIGNITY / Aasta Marie Bjorvand Bjørkøy 249 Honour under the welfare state? 249 Life phase transitions 251 From dignity to humiliation 254 How to non-prioritise dignity 259 The demand for activity and improvement 262 Society’s no-win projects 266 The affordance of old age 269 Bibliography 273 14. FOR HONOUR’S SAKE / Johanne Walle Jomisko de Figueiredo 275 About the novel 277 About conceptions of honour and gender 280 The tyranny of the face 285 A double conflict 288 A female concept of honour? 292 Bibliography 295 15. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HONOUR FOR SENTENCING IN PARTNER KILLING / Nasim Karim 296 Discourse analysis 297 Language as a tool for lawyers: the formal and objective claim vs. the need for interpretation 298 Categorising homicide 301 Bibliography 321 BIOGRAPHIES 323
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