@article{018e9e3d-2a4f-7233-8a03-ec2694823761, author = {Jadwiga Piskorska}, title = {Expressing the Corporal Exhaustion: Experiences of Corporality in Knut Hamsun’s Hunger}, journal = {Konteksty Kultury}, volume = {2022}, number = {Volume 19 Issue 4}, year = {2022}, issn = {2083-7658}, pages = {583-595},keywords = {body; modernity; experience; narration; epiphany}, abstract = {The aim of the article is to consider an issue of a split between the psychologism which dominates Knut Hamsun’s novel and the harrowing experience of an exhausted body echoing in the narration. The argumentation is based on a polemic with researchers interpreting Hamsun’s work in terms of a modernist urban novel, thereby treating titular hunger purely as a theme of the text, not as a traumatic, somatic experience structuring the entire narration. Focusing on issues often overlooked during cursory readings, brings out the innovative meanings and narrative techniques pioneering later literary turns.}, doi = {10.4467/23531991KK.22.046.17512}, url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/ekspresja-wycienczonego-ciala-doswiadczenie-cielesnosci-w-glodzie-knuta-hamsuna} }