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...
Notes on Ibsen's "Doll's House" and "Hedda Gabler" (Cliffs notes)
by Marianne Sturman
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature."CliffsNotes on A Doll's House & Hedda Gabler" takes you into Henrick Ibsen's dramatic plays, controversial theater productions that inflamed audience reactions in the nineteenth century."A Doll's House" follows the story of a housewife who emerges from the confinement of her married life to confront the conditions of the outside world. Typical of Ibsen's dramas, "Hedda Gabler"...
Written in Iceland by an unknown author about 1280, Nj\u00e1ls saga has been called the greatest work of vernacular prose fiction from the European Middle Ages. Allen's finely written and perceptive study is one of the first in English to offer a critical examination of the text.
This is the first comprehensive analysis of the life and work of Tryggve Andersen. Stressing that Andersen was a transitional writer, Schiff deftly shows him torn between defunct traditions of the recent past and a sterile, hopeless future. Andersen's prose fiction, according to Schiff, contains elegant, finely crafted works of art. His works are highly relevant to today's reader, for they reflect some of the most compelling characteristics of the Western experience of the last century and a hal...
The Finnish language belongs to a non-Indo-European group of languages whose origins have been traced to a region just west of the Urals. During the first milennium of our era, Uralic-speakers in the Baltic region developed the oral poetry which is the basis of the Kalevala, the epic poem of Finland which was assembled only 150 years ago as a portrait of an ancient people in war and peace. This poem, which has often been compared with the epics of Homer, played a central role in the process towa...
Thirteen people are spending the shortest night of the year together in an isolated manor house. On the morning of Midsummer's Eve, the brightest star in Swedish television, Michelle Carlsson, is found shot to death in a mobile control room. The murder turns Annika Bengtzon's world upside down. One of the suspects is her best friend. Annika's boyfriend, Thomas, accuses her of letting the family down. Anders Schyman, her boss, involves her in a public power struggle. Meanwhile there's a kill...
La Saga de Sverrir, Roi de Norvege (Classiques Du Nord, #16)
by Karl Jonsson