What becomes especially apparent is a striking ambivalence towards modernity, but also towards a more traditional, almost pre-modern, attitude to life prevailing in the severe Læstadianist village community described. The thematization of individual freedom versus determinism makes the work a counterpart to existentialism, the current philosophy of the time. The basis of this thematic analysis consists of entities like language, time, faith and individuality, all of which play an important part in Aronson’s writing. In the next step the modernist approach is linked to a discussion of modernity. These aspects, and the originality with which they are treated by Aronson, are put in relation to modernist æstheticism. This work forms the subject of the first part, with formal aspects like narrator construction, composition and genre as the starting-point. This thesis discusses the narrative art of the Swedish author Stina Aronson (1892-1956) with special emphasis on Hitom himlen (“This Side of Heaven”) from 1946. 2007 (Swedish) Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic) Abstract ĭen befriade sången.
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