Giants in the Earth | Essays and Criticism
- Exploring Characterization
In the following essay, the author explores 0. E. Rolvaag's characterization of the Dakota plains settlers and the internal and external conflicts that ultimately determine their fate.
- Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth as Tragedy
In the following excerpt, Morrow discusses Rolvaag's use of and departure from tragic conventions in Giants in the Earth, a novel the critic ranks along with the great American tragedies A Farewell to Arms, The Sound and the Fury, and The Red Badge of Courage.
- Western Man Against Nature: Giants in the Earth
In the following review, Baker notes, particularly in the character of Per Hansa, an affirmation of the Western ideas of humans possessing free will as opposed to the Eastern, deterministic outlook held by American romantic writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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