dc.contributor.author | Drozdowska, Karolina | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-16T09:19:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-03-16T09:19:27Z | |
dc.date.created | 2023-02-08T08:46:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Studia Scandinavica. 2022, 6 (26), 45-60. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1899-2811 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3058650 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article reflects on the issue of spatiality in Gaute Heivoll’s novel Kongens hjerte [The King’s Heart] from 2011, and analyzes how different descriptions of space interplay with illness metaphors in the text, contributing to a literary imaging of illness as “a road to health.” Kongens hjerte is a historical novel set in the second half of the eighteenth century, telling the story of a father and his ill daughter traveling from Norway to Copenhagen in order to seek treatment. The girl suffers from radesyke, a mysterious and lethal disease whose etiology remains unclear up to this day. After a theoretical introduction and outlining the context, the paper suggests possible lines of analysis of the spatiality aspects in the novel and moves on to a detailed reflection upon two categories: the presence/absence of the father and daughter in the same space, and the horizontal/ vertical orientation of the protagonists’ bodies. The conclusion of the study is that constructions of space and spatiality are a coherent and immanent component of the illness images in Heivoll’s novel, enabling a wide range of reading alternatives and supplying additional contexts for possible interpretations of the text. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Uniwersytet Gdanski, Wydział Filologiczny | en_US |
dc.rights | Navngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no | * |
dc.title | Sailing from Illness to Health: Spaces in Gaute Heivoll’s Kongens hjerte | en_US |
dc.title.alternative | Sailing from Illness to Health: Spaces in Gaute Heivoll’s Kongens hjerte | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en_US |
dc.source.pagenumber | 45-60 | en_US |
dc.source.volume | 6 | en_US |
dc.source.journal | Studia Scandinavica | en_US |
dc.source.issue | 26 | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.26881/ss.2022.26.01 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 2123994 | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | postprint | |
cristin.qualitycode | 1 | |