Jernets tvang!

Om ressourceudnyttelsens paradoksale natur i Harald Kiddes Jærnet

Forfattere

  • Jacob Ølgaard Nyboe

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/pas.v40i94.164906

Nøgleord:

new materialism, Jane Bennett, modernist novel, ecocriticism, Harald Kidde

Resumé

The Force of the Iron: On the Paradoxical Nature of Resource Exploitation in Harald Kidde’s Jærnet This article aims to establish Harald Kidde’s novel Jærnet (1918) as and overlooked classic and modernist pioneer work. Through a new materialistic approach, I demonstrate how iron is presented as a non-human actant with whom both the society and the psychology of its individuals is highly intertwined. The novel, thus, in a sophisticated manner explores conflicts and paradoxes of our relationship to natural resources, highly relevant for contemporary society.

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2026-02-20

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Nyboe, J. Ølgaard. (2026). Jernets tvang! Om ressourceudnyttelsens paradoksale natur i Harald Kiddes Jærnet. Passage - Tidsskrift for Litteratur Og Kritik, 40(94), 67–78. https://doi.org/10.7146/pas.v40i94.164906