The Man of Letters as Hero
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"Man of letters" is one of these terms we use without thinking of the content or specific meaning. I intend to follow its use and significance through history. The status of the man of letters is intimately connected to literary and cultural history, to the constitution of nations and social production of identity.
Keywords: Literary History, The Meaning and Development of 'The Man of Letters
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Books, Writing and Reading
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30 minute Paper Presentation in English
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Man of Letters as Hero, The
Marianne Egeland
Assistant professor, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, The University of Oslo
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I have published books on the perception of time in Mexican literature, on Sylvia Plath, The Norwegian University Press, and the biography as a literary and historic genre. My doctoral thesis is on the rhetoric of biography. At the University of Oslo I coordinate a programme in practical literature, offering courses in publishing, editing and criticism. Before returning to the university, I worked in academic publishing at the Norwegian University Press. I have studied Comparative Literature, Social Antrhopolgy and English at universities in Norway. I have also studied in Minnesota, Mexico City and Oxford. I am interested in the sosiology of literature, in reception studies, and the role of the author as well as in questions concerning literary taste and canon.
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