Turning Fiction into Reality: the Making of Two Places within Literary Geography

• Published in: Studia ethnologica Croatica Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 183 - 206
• Main Authors: Selberg, Torunn, Alempijević, Nevena Škrbić
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Zagreb 01.12.2013
• Subjects: Birth place; Case studies; Croatia; Fiction; Geography; Literature; Locality; Mazuranic, Ivana Brlic; Norway; Novels; Parochialism; Undset, Sigrid; Undset, Sigrid (1882-1949); Writers

The authors discuss the creation of literary places, based on people’s perceptions of a locality arising from their relations to particular writers and their texts. The analysis is grounded on two case studies: Ogulin in Croatia, which is the birthplace of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, a renowned writer of...