%0 Journal Article
%T Hav, hage, teater og temperatur i Cora Sandels <i>Alberte</i>-b ker
%A Morten Bartn£¿s
%J Nordlit : Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur
%D 2010
%I Universitetet i Troms?
%X Current readings of Cora Sandel¡¯s Alberta-trilogy (1926-1939) frequently tend to reuse the novels¡¯ imagery in their own descriptive and interpretive statements ¨C instead of treating this characteristic of the novels with the same degree of attention as, e.g., the trilogy¡¯s psychological and political aspects, or its narrative technique. The present article attempts to draw attention to the trilogy¡¯s imagery as a both autonomous and integral element in Cora Sandel¡¯s novelistic art. Three metaphorical ways of thought which show their presence throughout the trilogy, are singled out: In the novels, the persons (and thus, implicitly or explicitly, the human condition) are frequently pictured as being situated on the high sea, in a garden or in a theatre. In the Alberta-trilogy, these time-honoured metaphors are the object of a refined practice of re-contextualization. In my attempt to trace this process, I draw special attention to the relationship between these metaphorical fields and the trilogy¡¯s pervasive use of thermal imagery. In each case, I attempt to show that the thermal descriptions that are associated with the metaphorical views of human existence as a boat trip, a garden sojourn or a theatre performance have a central function in Cora Sandel¡¯s use of these images.
%K Cora Sandel
%K Alberta
%K Alberte
%K termisk
%K bilde
%K kulde
%K metafor
%K metaforikk
%U http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/1049