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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Rølvaag, O. E."”.
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Encounter with Otherness : Nature and Identity in Rolvaag's GIANTS IN THE EARTH
<p>Ole Edvart Rolvaag, the Norwegian-American novelist of the immigrant experience, is recognized primarily for one work, <em>Giants in the Earth</em>, frequently accredited the novel that deals most effectively with the human cost underlying the glorious national achievement of westward expansion. …
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AMERICAN MADNESS: THE FRONTIER IN THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, HERMAN MELVILLE, JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, WILLA CATHER, AND O.E. RØLVAAG
… James Fenimore Cooper, Willa Cather, and O.E. Rølvaag rely on the frontier and the theme of madness to depict characters’ aberrant behaviors. Using these depictions of madness, I explore questions of religion, violence, gender, and ethnic identity to analyze the psychological impact of the …