AUC Philologica (Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica) is an academic journal published by Charles University. It publishes scholarly articles in a large number of disciplines (English, German, Greek and Latin, Oriental, Romance and Slavonic studies, as well as in phonetics and translation studies), both on linguistic and on literary and cultural topics. Apart from articles it publishes reviews of new academic books or special issues of academic journals.
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AUC PHILOLOGICA, Vol 2019 No 3 (2019), 115–127
Familjen som pesthärd: Sjukdom och förbrytelse i Vigdis Hjorths Arv og miljø
[The Family as Contagion: Disease and Transgression in Vigdis Hjorth’s Arv og miljø]
Henrik Johnsson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/24646830.2019.35
published online: 19. 12. 2019
abstract
This article conducts a close reading of Vigdis Hjorth’s novel Arv og miljø (2016). I argue that the novel is informed by an imagery of contagion and disease which is used to express a theme of dysfunctional familial relationships. A related imagery of boundaries and cleanliness is used to relay the narrator’s experience of having been sexually assaulted by her father. In closing, I maintain that the novel should be regarded as a literary text influenced by popular representations of psychoanalytical theory and practice.
keywords: Vigdis Hjorth; Arv og miljø; literature; psychoanalysis
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