Arktisk drama og biosofisk vitalisme: Knut Hamsuns dramatikk i lys av sjelelige landskap

Knut Ove Arntzen

doi:10.7557/13.3760

Authors

Knut Ove Arntzen UiT The Arctic University of Norway

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3760

Keywords:

Arctic Drama, Landscapes, Biosophical Vitalim, Scenic reception of Knut Hamsun, Spiral Dramaturgy

Abstract

In this article I try to define arctic drama in a concrete and metaphorical way by touching upon the dramatic oeuvre of Knut Hamsun. In Play of Life Hamsun plays with nature and the polar as topos. The drama, situated in a small market town in the Nordland area of northern Norway, uses coastal nature and culture as a framework. Nature is a driving force in this pre-expressive drama where the mythical enlightens the inner and symbolic dimension of human actions and spiritual conditions. This article will also show how nature is used to reflect the inner world of the characters. I will end with a look into the northern-Norwegian identity, the authorship of Hamsun, and the biosophical dimensions studied by the philosopher Peter Wessel Zappfe.

Author Biography

Knut Ove Arntzen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Knut Ove Arntzen, f. 1950, professor i teatervitenskap ved Universitetet i Bergen. Publiserte i 2007 boken Det marginale teater. Et nordisk blikk på regikunst og ambiente forsøk, Laksevåg: Alvheim og Eide. I 2009 publiserte han som co-redaktør og forfatter Performance Art by Baktruppen. First Part, Oslo: Kontur forlag. I 2012 kom Arktisches Drama und Landschaftsdialoge in szenischer Rezeption: Hamsun, Løveid, Iunker und Fosse – eine andere norwegische Dramatik, i Die gegenwart der Bühne, Aktuelles skandinavisches Drama und Theater, herausgegeben von Karin Hoff, Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann. Han har også deltatt i forskergruppen Europas grenser ved HF-fakkultetet, UiB, og har bidratt til flere publikasjoner, deriblant ”Scenic Landscapes and Dialogic Spaces on the Outskirts of Europe: Arctic Drama and Polar Surrealism in the Arts – A Cross-disciplinary Approach”, i Europe and Its Interior Other(s), editors Helge Vidar Holm, Sissel Lægreid, Torgeir Skorgen, Århus: Arhus University Press 2014.