Eyolf: Kinder Und Kinderschicksale Im Werk Henrik Ibsens (Texte Und Untersuchungen Zur Germanistik Und Skandinavistik, #24)
by Susanne Kramarz
Die Kinderfiguren in Ibsens Mittel- und Spatwerk, darunter besonders Hedvig Ekdal und Eyolf Allmers, haben nahezu alle ein ahnliches Schicksal; sie leiden an symbolisch zu verstehenden Gebrechen und sterben fruh. Die vorliegende Studie zeigt, dass die Ibsenschen Kinderfiguren als die 'Schwachsten Glieder' der jeweiligen Familie betrachtet werden konnen, die 'stellvertretend' fur ihre Eltern und die familiaren Probleme leiden und 'geopfert' werden. Einerseits haben sie die mythologische Rolle der...
Alan Swanson discusses Swedish-American literature in terms of its relevance to its intended audience and the audience of today.He focuses on the function of literature generally and the function of Swedish-American literature in particular before presenting the work of Arthur Landfors (the best-known Swedish-American poet).
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.
Rechtsdenkmaler (Grundriss Der Germanischen Philologie, #5)
by Karl Von Amira
Selma Lagerlof Seen from Abroad - Selma Lagerlof i Utlandsperspektiv (Konferenser S., #44)
The End of the World as They Knew It (Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory)
by Eva-Lynn Alicia Jagoe
The End of the World as They Knew It maps the shifting constructions of the space of the South in Argentine discourses of identity, nation, and self-fashioning. In works by Domingo F. Sarmiento, Lucio V. Mansilla, Francisco P. Moreno, Jorge Luis Borges, Ricardo Piglia, and Cesar Aira, Eva-Lynn Alicia Jagoe examines how representations of the South - as primitive, empty, violent, or a place of potential - inform Argentine liberal ideology. Part of this process entails the reception of travel narr...
Pippi in the South Seas (Oxford Children's Modern Classics) (Oxford Children's Paperbacks)
by Astrid Lindgren
When Pippi’s father, the king, sends for her, she decides to take her best friends Tommy and Annika with her to Kurrekurredutt Island. The island is fantastic and Pippi has one crazy adventure after another! Pippi is even made a princess---Princess Pippilotta. But will Pippi and her friends really want to live on the island forever, never to return to Villa Villekulla? "Any reappearance of the irrepressible Pippi Longstocking is cause for celebration. This installment is no exception." -The N...
This book examines the significance of cabins and other temporary seasonal dwellings as important symbols in modern Norwegian cultural and literary history. The author uses Michel Foucault's notion of the "heterotopia"-an actual place that also functions imaginatively as a kind of real-world utopia-to examine how cabins have signified differently during successive periods, from an Enlightenment trope of simplicity and moderation, through the rise of tourism, into a period of increasing individua...
On the Threshold (Series A: Scandinavian Literary History and Criticism, A20)
This collection of essays by scholars of Nordic literature from around the world is focused on two central themes. The first relates to periods of transition in Nordic writing, the growth of new directions, the turning of a century or a millennium, and investigates phenomena such as fin-de-siecle writing, decadence and millennium myths, ragnarok and apocalypse. The second explores the writing of texts - poetry, prose, drama - and, in particular, ways of beginning and ending a narrative. Among th...
The Northern Element in English Literature (Heritage)
by William Craigie
Four renowned sagas about Icelandic poets (or skalds) - "Bjarnar Saga", "Gunnlaugs Saga", "Hallfredar Saga", and "Korm ks Saga" - provide the focus for this book. Discussion centers on the verses included in these sagas; the special characteristics of skalds; medieval and modern interpretations of the sagas; their affiliation with other Scandinavian and European literature; and their place in evolving social constructions of gender and love relationships. The constituent chapters combine to form...
The Dangerous Age; Letters and Fragments from a Woman's Diary.
by Karin Michalis
Das Ebersignum im Germanischen (Quellen Und Forschungen Zur Sprach- Und Kulturgeschichte der, #16)
by Heinrich Beck
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...
Icons of Danish Modernity (New Directions in Scandinavian Studies)
by Julie K Allen
Julie Allen utilizes the lives and friendship of the Danish literary critic George Brandes (1842-1927) and the silent film star Asta Nielsen (1881-1972) to explore questions of culture and national identity in early twentieth-century Denmark. Danish culture and politics were influenced in this period by the country's deeply ambivalent relationship with Germany. Brandes and Nielsen, both of whom lived and worked in Germany for significant periods of time, were seen as dangerously cosmopolitan by...