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Oddvar Holmesland

Professor Emeritus, English Literature
Department of Foreign Languages and Translation
Phone
+47 38142048
Mobile phone
+4795286072
Office EU010 (Universitetsveien 25, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway)

Areas of responsibility

Ph.D. University of Edinburgh, 1983. Literature/culture courses taught range over the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Research interests include early modern as well as modern literature.

Main publications (monographs):

*Utopian Negotiation: Aphra Behn and Margaret Cavendish (Syracuse University Press, 2013)

*Form as Compensation for Life: Fictive Patterns in Virginia Woolf’s Novels (Boydell & Brewer/Camden House, 1998)

*A Critical Introduction to Henry Green’s Novels: The Living Vision (Palgrave Macmillan, 1986).

Select international publications (articles/chapters): ‘Dialectics of Pleasure in Thomas More’s Utopia' (1516), Utopian Studies, Vol. 34, No. 1 (2023), pp. 16–33; ‘Truth-Telling and the Representation of the Surinam “Indians” in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko’ + 'Critical Reflections', in Studying English Literature in Context: Critical Readings, ed. Paul Poplawski (Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp. 167–82; ‘Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World: Natural Art and the Body Politic’, in Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550–1700, ed. Sara H. Mendelson, vol. 7 (Ashgate, 2009), 307–29 (first published in Studies in Philology, XCVI, No. 4, 1999); 'Fighting the Kingdom of Faction in Bell in Campo', Early Modern Literary Studies, 14 (May 2004), pp. 1–12; ‘Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko: Cultural Dialectics and the Novel’, ELH, 68 (2001), pp. 57–79; ‘Structuralism and Interpretation: Ernest Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain”‘, in New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, ed. Jackson J. Benson (Duke University Press, 1990), pp. 58–72.

Publications

  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2023). Dialectics of Pleasure in Thomas More's Utopia. Utopian Studies. ISSN 1045-991X. 34(1), p. 16–33.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2022). Truth-Telling and the Representation of the Surinam “Indians” in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko. In Poplawski, Paul (Eds.), Studying English Literature in Context. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781108749572. p. 167–182.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2018). From Hagiography and Romance to Oroonoko. In Forsgren, Frida & Vegge, Tor (Ed.), Hagiographic Adaptations. Fabrizio Serra Editore. ISSN 978-88-3315-115-1. p. 61–80.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2011). Colonized Victim or Free Spirit?: Joyce Cary’s Mister Johnson. In Mustad, Jan Erik & Rahbek, Ulla (Ed.), Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences. Essays in Honour of Peter Young. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270996575. p. 52–65.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2011). Intertextuality and the Problem of Love in A Voyage to the Isle of Love (1684). In Rubik, Margarete (Eds.), Aphra Behn and Her Female Successors. LIT Verlag. ISSN 978-3-643-80096-1. p. 59–73.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2009). Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World: Natural Art and the Body Politic, Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700: Volume 7. Ashgate. p. 307–329.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2008). Rhetoric's Power Over the Self: A Modern Reading of A Voyage to the Isle of Love, Aphra Behn In / And Our Time. Bilingua GA Editions. p. 102–108.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2005). Heroic Conquest Versus Utopian Reciprocality: Aphra Behn's A Voyage to the Isle of Love, Aphra Behn (1640-1689): Le Modèle Européen. Bilingua GA Editions. p. 68–76.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2004). Fighting the Kingdom of Faction in "Bell in Campo". Early Modern Literary Studies. ISSN 1201-2459. p. 1–12.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2003). In Search of a Restorative New World: Oroonoko and The Widow Ranter, Margarete Rubik et al., [eds]., Revisiting and Reinterpreting Aphra Behn. Bilingua GA Editions. p. 19–29.

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  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2013). Utopian Negotiation: Aphra Behn and Margaret Cavendish. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0815633129. 320 p.

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  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2018). Kazuo Ishiguro: Illusjonen om tilhørighet i verden. In Jahr, Ernst Håkon; Nossum, Rolf Tomas; Thygesen, Ragnar & Breen, Olav (Ed.), Agder Vitenskapsakademi, Årbok 2017. Portal forlag. ISSN 978-82-02-59723-8. p. 236–239.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2017). Kazuo Ishiguro - Illusjonen om tilhørighet i verden.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2017). Seeking Mediating Principles in Nature: Thomas More's Utopia and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2016). Negotiating the Inner Space in the Social Space: Thomas More's Utopia.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2016). Englishness and the Jungle: From Lord of the Flies via Wide Sargasso Sea to Speak for England.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2015). From Renaissance Humanism to Restoration Drama .
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2014). Non-Violence and Pleasure in Thomas More’s Utopia.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2014). Hagiographic Patterns in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2013). Freedom, Order and Epicureanism in Thomas More’s Utopia.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2013). Graham Greene: Kva ville han med livet? Dag og Tid. ISSN 0803-334X. p. 24–24.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2013). Epicureanism and Pleasure in Thomas More's Utopia.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2012). Britisk selvironi. [Internet]. NRK p3.no.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2011). Negotiating a Utopian Vision: Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2010). The Poetic Transformation of the Senses in "A Voyage to the Isle of Love".
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2009). Freedom, Identity and Oratory: Margaret Cavendish's The Female Academy (1662).
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2008). Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Views of the Nation.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2008). Freedom's Negotiation with Order: Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2008). Aphra Behn's Oroonoko as Novel.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2008). Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway (1925): Kunsten å ramme inn øyeblikket.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2008). Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway (1925): Kunsten å ramme inn øyeblikket.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2006). Aphra Behn's The Emperor of the Moon and the New Science.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2004). Med Ibsen mot konvensjonene (Bloomsday: James Joyce-tilhengere fra hele verden feirer 100-årsjubileet). Fædrelandsvennen. ISSN 0805-3790.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2003). Fighting the "Kingdom of Faction" in Bell in Campo.
  • Holmesland, Oddvar (2003). Heroic Conquest Versus Utopian Reciprocality: Aphra Behn’s Voyage to the Isle of Love.

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