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Christian Krohg and Alexander Kielland

Introduction

This lesson looks at the connections between painting and literature during the Modern Breakthrough. Christian Krohg is a major Norwegian painter, who wrote Albertine, a novel about a young woman driven to prositution. Kielland's "Karen" tells the story of another working class girl who falls victim to the double morality of society.

Lecture

 

1. Art and Literature (7:39 min)	2. Chrisiania Bohemians (7:06 min)	3. Christian Krogh, Albertine, Part I (15:42 min)
4. Albertine, Part II (6:59 min)	5. Alexander Kielland, "Karen" (3:20 min)

Readings

• Krohg, "Excerpts from Albertine " in Sex and the Modern Breakthrough.
• Kielland, "Karen" in Short Stories from Norway.

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