Romantic Love in Norwegian Children’s Literature: Tormod Haugen’s The Georg and Gloria Trilogy
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https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2003vol13no3art1283Keywords:
Norwegian children's literature, Swedish children's literature, Tormod Haugen, The Georg and Gloria trilogyAbstract
Representations of romantic love in Norwegian and Swedish texts for children are considered focusing on the humorous, ironic and parodic strategies used by the Norwegian author Tormod Haugen in a trilogy of novels, which traces the intersubjective relations of the protagonists, Georg and Gloria. Haugen's trilogy incorporates a sequence of three stages, the heroic project, the pastoral idyll, and the love tragedy, which is informed both by conventions and genre expectations in regard to love stories.
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