Die Literarische Funktion Von Kleidung in Den Islendingasoegur Und IslendingaTHaettir
by Anita Sauckel
Hansische Literaturbeziehungen (Reallexikon Der Germanischen Altertumskunde - Erg Nzungsb Nd, #14)
The Sami are the indigenous people inhabiting Northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia's Kola Peninsula. In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun is the first extensive anthology of contemporary Sami literature in English. Twenty-one authors from all four countries are represented with poetry, short stories, and excerpts from novels. Many of the authors are award-winners, and some have been included in Nordic and international collections. A comprehensive introduction to the book provides backgroun...
Runen (Sammlung Goeschen, #2810) (Sammlung Goschen, #2810)
by Wolfgang Krause
Selma Lagerlof Seen from Abroad - Selma Lagerlof i Utlandsperspektiv (Konferenser S., #44)
The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard "Why I Write" may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to answer yet it is central to the project of one of the most influential writers working today. To write, for the Norwegian artist, is to resist easy thinking and preconceived notions that inhibit awareness of our lives. Knausgaard writes to "erode [h...
Cell 8 (Ewert Grens, #3) (DCI Ewert Grens)
by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom
JOHN MEYER FREY IS SENTENCED TO DEATH BY THE STATE OF OHIO. JOHN MEYER FREY DIES AWAITING EXECUTION ON DEATH ROW. JOHN MEYER FREY, SIX YEARS LATER, IS FOUND ALIVE IN SWEDEN. Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens now has a dead man in his custody, an impossible mystery on his hands, and the most explosive case of his career in front of him.
Winner! 2011 Obie for Playwriting A New York Times Critic's Pick! Invasion! is a tornado of words, images and ideas, all centered around a magical name: Abulkasem. The play assaults our deepest prejudices about identity, race and language. At once hilarious, disturbing and poignant, this deeply subversive play deconstructs a threatening identity - the Arabic male - and forces us to confront our own cultural identity.
The Norse Muse in Britain 1750-1820 (Hesperides S., v. 9)
by Margaret Clunies Ross
Ibsen (Critical Heritage)
As the modern industrialised world begins to encroach on a small, isolated coastal town in northern Norway the effect is devastating. For young Edevart, uprooted from his simple origins, it brings progressive alienation from the old traditions; for August, the lying, charming scoundrel, it means opportunities that will threaten the stability of an unspoiled community. With comic irony and a haunting power, Hamsun charts the slow disintegration of the old way of life in a magnificent novel tha...
Inger Christensen's "It" is a masterpiece of twentieth-century Scandinavian literature; a rare book that on its publication in Denmark in 1969 was both critically acclaimed and instantly popular: some of its lines entered the language, as graffiti and idiom. Translated into many languages, it went on to establish Christensen's international reputation. A collection of poems and an epic, it is a philosophical and political exploration of the nature of language, perception and reality. In sea urch...
