A gateway to the ‘backwoods’: Aalto and the matter of rooting modernity

Menin, Sarah

doi:10.1017/s1359135505000187

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2005

DOI: 10.1017/s1359135505000187

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A gateway to the ‘backwoods’: Aalto and the matter of rooting modernity

Sarah Menin¹

Abstract: Mediating between forest and garden, tradition and modernity, a small wooden gate at Alvar Aalto's Villa Mairea is shown to be deeply rooted in Finnish cultural memories.

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“Green by this Time Tomorrow!”: Knut Hamsun's Alternative Modernity

Mortensen¹

2009

Journal of Modern Literature

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Indiana University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of Modern Literature.The Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun's erratic behavior during the 1930s and early 1940s, when he publicly endorsed the German war effort, has tarnished the reputation of his Nobel Prize-winning novel Growth of the Soil (1917) and in some circles stigmatized it as "reactionary," "antimodern" and even "proto-fascist" text. Placing Hamsun within an international context and drawing on both critical theory and revisionist scholarship into the back-to-the-land movement, I find instead that contemporary land and life reformers' conflicted attempts to map out "alternative modernities" are mirrored in Growth of the Soil's fraught negotiation with modern technology, producing a complex dialectic of critique and affirmation that cannot simply be dismissed as backward-looking. Rather than directly prefiguring the political mobilization of retrograde anxieties in the mass movements of the 1930s, Hamsun's "agricultural book" signifies ambiguously within a heterogeneous space of conflicting discourses and practices directed against and towards the modern world.

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“Green by this Time Tomorrow!”: Knut Hamsun's Alternative Modernity

Mortensen¹

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A gateway to the ‘backwoods’: Aalto and the matter of rooting modernity

Abstract: Mediating between forest and garden, tradition and modernity, a small wooden gate at Alvar Aalto's Villa Mairea is shown to be deeply rooted in Finnish cultural memories.

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