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Critique of standard literary Modernism with an eye to Faroese literature and authors usually neglected in discussions of this period. Modernism is read into a world literary context defined by classical Modernist authors such as Thomas Mann and Albert Camus but then the author focuses on four Faroese novelists: William Heinesen, Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen, Jens Pauli Heinesen and Gunnar Hoydal. The emphasis is on Faroese literature that has created a number of works of international standing, which can contribute to a literary historical review of modernism and thereby put the usual literary model's dichotomous structures and narrow distinctions under pressure ...

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