title: Word and truth — a look at Johannes V. Jensen’s journalism. Part 2
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metadata.value: Jørgensen, Aage
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metadata.value: 2022-04-19T16:58:12Z
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metadata.value: 2022-04-19T16:58:12Z
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metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.value: Jørgensen A. Word and truth — a look at Johannes V. Jensen’s journalism. Part 2. Scandinavian Philology, 2021, vol. 19, issue 2, pp. 347–359.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2021.208
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/36184
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metadata.value: Since the establishment of the Johannes V. Jensen Centre at Aarhus University in
  1993, studies of the Nobel Prize winner have shifted from the biographical to the textual.
  At the same time, the publication especially of early works with critical commentary
  has intensified. The present article traces some themes throughout a half-century
  of Jensen’s journalism, which was first assembled in book form in 2014 under the title
  Word and Truth. The material brings more nuance to impressions of the poet’s opinions
  and positions, in part because the anthologizing of his journalistic works has, until now
  and for good reason, skimmed only the cream. Now the dregs are considered as well,
  and even this portion of Jensen’s work impresses with its linguistically seductive energy
  and fascinating images. Jensen himself agreed to have most of the articles reprinted,
  and they were included in the so-called mythic volumes. Jensen regarded myth as a
  special genre, his own reply in all modesty to what H. C. Andersen had done for the
  fairy tale. Jensen’s journalism spans also biographically, from the poet’s native soil in
  Jutland, to distant parts of the world, with the capital as well as rural Tisvilde as important
  stops along the way. The poet’s efforts to protect nature and implied archeological
  interests (not only in a Danish context) are reflected in a number of articles. Just
  as meaningful, but modernity-oriented, is an enthusiasm for technical development,
  machinery, and traffic on land, sea, and air. Life’s origins and the development of the
  species are viewed with a Darwinist perspective. The present article’s second part deals
  with Jensen’s tradition-bound understanding of the relationship between the sexes and,
  in that connection, his fear of “sexual confusion” often mentioned, most painfully in the
  1907 intimidation of his colleague Herman Bang. Finally, attention is given to the part
  of Jensen’s journalism that portrays his own travels and his writings on other’s contributions
  to the genre of travel literature.
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 19; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Johannes V. Jensen
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: journalism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: evolutionary theory
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: travel literature
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: women’s studies
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Word and truth — a look at Johannes V. Jensen’s journalism. Part 2
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