%0 Journal Article
%T Expressing the Corporal Exhaustion: Experiences of Corporality in Knut Hamsun’s Hunger
%A Piskorska, Jadwiga
%J Konteksty Kultury
%V 2022
%R 10.4467/23531991KK.22.046.17512
%N Volume 19 Issue 4
%P 583-595
%K body, modernity, experience, narration, epiphany
%@ 2083-7658
%D 2022
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/ekspresja-wycienczonego-ciala-doswiadczenie-cielesnosci-w-glodzie-knuta-hamsuna
%X 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.