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Love Thy Fatherland as Thyself Patriotism and Passing in Herman Bang Olivia Gunn Pacific Lutheran University For, just as it is only by contact with the art of foreign nations that the art of a country gains that individual and separate life that we call nationality, so, by curious inversion, it is only by intensifying his own personality that the critic can interpret the personality and work of others, and the more strongly this personality enters into the interpretation, the more real the interpretation becomes, the more satisfying, the more convincing, the more true. (Wilde 2003, 1131)1 t might initially seem strange to label Herman Bang as a patriot given the cosmopolitanism of his biography, the persistent rhetorical marking of the homosexual as a threat to the nation, and the prevailing figure of the patriot as both masculine and sure. However, Bang's concern for Denmark was persistent, and his varied remarks on the state of the nation reveal that cosmopolitanism is opposed to provincialism rather than to patriotism.2 For Bang, both patriotism and 1. Wilde's passage brings together explicitly those elements that Bang aligns throughout his writing: national and personal experience; the foreign and the familiar; the critic
Scandinavian Studies – Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
Published: Aug 29, 2013
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