The winner of many awards in Sweden, Margareta Ekstrom is a novelist, short story writer, and poet. This is her second collection to be published in English translation and includes stories previously published in Swedish as well as new, unpublished stories. One of Sweden's most versatile and original short story writers, Margareta Esktrom's work has been described by Susan Sontag as 'sensuous, beautifully felt, and truthful'. Joyce Carol Oates calls her 'a unique, highly original voice -- there...
When she died in poverty at 31, Edith Södergran had been dismissed as a mad, megalomaniac aristocrat by most of her Finnish contemporaries. Today she is regarded as Finland’s greatest modern poet. Her poems – written in Swedish – are intensely visionary, and have been compared with Rimbaud’s, yet they also show deep affinities with Russian poetry, with the work of Blok, Mayakovsky and Severyanin in particular. Born in 1892 of a Finno-Swedish family, Edith Södergran grew up in Raivola, a village...
The Kanteletar
This is the first appearance in the English-speaking world of the companion volume to the great Finnish epic The Kalevala (also available in the World's Classics). The Kanteletar , roughly `zither-daughter', is a selection from a treasury of nearly seven hundred lyrics and ballads, based on oral tradition, and celebrates the everyday life of a rural society as work and play - hunting, dancing, marrying, caring for children, and much else. This book is intended for students of comparative literat...
From Iceland to the Americas (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)
This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson's visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have all come to reflect rising interest in the medieval Norse and their North American presence. Uniquely in reception studies, From Iceland to the Americas approaches this dynamic between Nordic history and its rece...
Friendship and Poetry - Studies in Danish NeoLatin Literature
by Minna Skafte Jensen
Moberg's Emigrant Novels and the Journals of Andrew Peterson (Scandinavians in America)
by Roger McKnight
Often designated The Moliere of the North and The Father of Scandinavian Theatre, Ludvig Holberg through the continued popularity of his comedies has dominated the Danish National Theatre for more than two hundred years. Of Norwegian birth, Holberg is claimed by Norway as their own great comic genius. Both the Danish and the Norwegian National Theatres are fronted by statues of Holberg overlooking their entrances.This book presents the first introduction to and analysis of Holberg s thirty-three...
Re-Writing the Script: Gender and Community in Elin Wagner (Series A: Scandinavian Literary History and Criticism, #32)
by Helena Forsas-Scott
Feminist, suffragist, pacifist and environmentalist, Elin Wagner was the author of a prodigious amount of journalism, political pamphlets and prose fiction as well as an acclaimed biography of Selma Lagerlof. She belonged to the circle of women who founded the radical weekly "Tidevarvet" ("The Epoch") and the unique Women Citizens' College at Fogelstad. This is the first full-length study in English of Wagner's output, and also the first attempt to go beyond the literary histories with their emp...
This book adopts a comparative approach to examine some curious and original aspects of the dramaturgy and the scenic conception of two great Nordic writers, Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg. As far as Ibsen is concerned, the book looks at the connection between his works and the European Risorgimenti, the anthropological relationship with the rites and atmospheres of Southern Italy, and the problematic link with theatrical tradition. With regards to Strindberg, light is shed on his intense id...
The Academy of Odin (Viking Collection, #19)
by University Press of Southern Denmark University Press of Southern Denmark
Die Faszination des Verborgenen und seine Entschlusselung - Rāđi sa? kunni
Die Literarische Funktion Von Kleidung in Den Islendingasoegur Und IslendingaTHaettir
by Anita Sauckel
A Doll's House (French's Acting Editions) (Acting Edition S.)
by Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian middle class marriage on stage. The play ushered in a new social era and "exploded like a bomb into contemporary life". "Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field" (George Steiner)
Andrew Lytle, the last survivor of the 12 Southerners whose ""I'll Take My Stand"" became a masterwork on the passing of the Agrarian way of life in America, has had a distinguished career as novelist, as critic and as teacher. Here he turns his creative insight to a relatively overlooked literary classic, Nobel Prize-winner Sigrid Undset's ""Saga of Kristin Lavrandsdatter"". First published in the early 1920s, Undset's epic trilogy of Kristin Lavransdatter and 14th-century Norway ""embraces mor...
The Tattooed Girl
by Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer, and John-Henri Holmberg
Runen (Sammlung Goeschen, #2810) (Sammlung Goschen, #2810)
by Wolfgang Krause
This is the first full-length study in English of the oeuvre of Elin Wagner - feminist, suffragist, pacifist and environmentalist - and also the first to include texts representing a wide range of genres. The focus on gender and community, studied in relation to dominant and alternative discourses, shows a number of Wagner's texts to be considerably more radical than has been observed previously. Some of them are found to have outlined bold alternatives to the Swedish welfare state, and the comb...
