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From:Scandinavian Studies (Vol. 91, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedLiterary trends and political movements often inform each other, particularly in times of social upheaval, but a productive balance between literature and politics can be difficult to achieve. While overtly propagandists...
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From: Variations[Huneker praises the critic Brandes as the successor of Charles Sainte-Beuve and Hippolyte Taine.] Brandes is an iconoclast, a radical, a nonconformist born, and more often a No-Sayer than a Yes-Sayer. The many-headed...
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From: Essays on Scandinavian Literature[The following remarks on Nietzsche are token from Boyesen's study of Georg Brandes. Boyesen, like Max Nordau, considers Nietzsche's philosophy the work of a “crackbrained visionary.” (Nietzsche's name is misspelled...
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From: Cross-Cultural Performances: Differences in Women's Re-Visions of Shakespeare[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Lee reads Dinesen's last collection of stories, Anecdotes of Destiny, as a "re-vision" of Shakespeare's play The Tempest, maintaining that, like the drama, the work stresses...
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From: Georg Brandies in Life and Letters[Fife praises Brandes for the freshness and eclecticism of his approach and work]. Some years ago, Georg Brandes declared of himself: “I am not a philosopher; for that I am too small. I am not a critic; for that I am...
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From:Scottish Literary Review (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWalter Scott's novels, including Ivanhoe, The Talisman, and The Betrothed, were first introduced to the Chinese through the translation of Lin Shu (1852-1924) in the early twentieth century. However, equally important,...
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From: TijdSchrift Voor Skandinavistiek[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Nolin determines Brandes's role in the development of modern literature in four Baltic countries: Poland, Latvia, Finland, and Sweden.] To what extent did the Danish critic,...
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From: The Bookman[In an early overview of Brandes's career, Payne voices the still-current critical belief that Brandes is responsible for introducing Denmark into the mainstream of contemporary European literary and philosophic thought...
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From:Scandinavian Studies (Vol. 78, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedJeg elsker dine brune Ojnes Morke og dine blode Krollers fagre Fald. Jeg kunde falde ned paa Kno og dyrke din underlige Rost, der rober al din dulgte Lidenskabs forborgne Styrke. EVERYTHING in these few lines, from...
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From: Essays on Scandinavian Literature[Boyesen discusses the influence of Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, John Stuart Mill, Charles Darwin, and Hippolyte Taine upon Brandes's approach to criticism. Though he praises Brandes's “linguistic excellences” Boyesen...
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From: The Little Review[Kaun provides a lukewarm review of Friedrich Nietzsche. Friedrich Nietzsche, by George Brandes, ... adds little new to the vast interpretative literature on the creator of Zarathustra. The book contains a moderate...
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From: TijdSchrift Voor Skandinavistiek[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Lundtofte surveys Brandes's biographical study of philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, showing that Brandes appropriates Kierkegaard's own methodological and stylistic tools in order...
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From: Reminiscences of My Childhood and Youth[Soon after publishing a critical essay on Danish journalist Meyer Goldschmidt, Brandes received a letter from Björnson, who attacked Brandes's critical approach. Of the portion of Björnson's letter reprinted below,...
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From: The Spectator[In Impressions of Russia], written with an intensity and a concentration that have kept it wholly free from the superfluous matter and trivial personal details that load most books of the kind, Dr. Brandes, well known...
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From: TijdSchrift Voor Skandinavistiek[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, van der Liet assesses Brandes as an important intermediary between Scandinavian and European literature, arguing that he had a profound impact on the development of European...
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From: Ludvig Holberg: A European Writer: A Study in Influence and Reception[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Holm provides a chronological overview of critical views and dramatic interpretations of Holberg’s Jeppe of the Hill from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Holm...
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From:Scandinavian Studies (Vol. 72, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedReading Brandes Reading Nietzsche Im Reklamecharakter der Kultur geht deren Differenz vom praktischen Leben unter. Theodor W. Adorno (299) The commercial character of culture causes the difference between...
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From:Scandinavian Studies (Vol. 83, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedON MAY 14, 1914, the newest, largest passenger liner in die world, a German steamship of the Hamburg-America line christened Vaterland [Fatherland], began its maiden voyage across the Atlantic. In a marketing ploy to...