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The Modern Breakthrough: Camilla Collette, Alexander Kielland, and Amalie Skram.

Introduction

This lesson begins a new unit on the Modern Breakthrough, an era when realism and social issues were the foremost features of literature. Camilla Collett was a pioneer with regard to the treatment of social issues in literature, and her "Different Pleasures" is an illuminating transitional text between Romanticism and the Modern Breakthrough. Class issues were of primary importance during the Modern Breakthrough and Alexander Kielland's "At the Ball" and Amalie Skram's "Karen's Christmas" expose the gulf between the rich and the poor.

Lecture

 

1. The Modern Breakthrough (7:39 min)	2. The Modern Breakthrough - Style (7:06 min)	3. Camilla Collette, "Different Pleasures" (15:42 min)
4. Alexander Kielland, "At the Ball" (6:59 min)	5. Amalie Skram, "Karen's Christmas" (3:20 min)

Readings

• Collette, "Different Pleasures"
• Kielland, "At the Ball"
• Skram, "Karen's Christmas"
All in Short Stories from Norway.

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