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From: Isak Dinesen: Critical ViewsIsak Dinesen always called her stories "tales." The use of this word served notice that she intended to tell a story of a particular kind. What is a tale? Perhaps it is best defined as a narrative which counts upon a...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 142. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS:Jeppe AakjarVredens Børn, Et Tyendes Saga [Children of Wrath, a Hired-Man's Saga] (novel) 1904Rugens Sange [Songs of the Rye] (poetry) 1906Hans Christian BrannerLegetøj (novel) 1936Drømmen om en...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[(essay date summer 1990) In the following essay, Bassoff finds thematic connections between three Dinesen stories: "The Diver," "Babette's Feast," and "The Ring."] In "The Diver," the first story in Isak Dinesen's...
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From: Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Barr theorizes on the importance of Isak Dinesen's works as precursors to postmodern feminist writing.] In "Postmodernism and Consumer Society," Fredric Jameson comments, "I...
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From:Gale Online Encyclopedia[Bertonneau is a Temporary Assistant Professor of English and the humanities at Central Michigan University, and Senior Policy Analyst at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. In the following essay, he maintains that...
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From: Southern Humanities ReviewThe phrase "cultural multiplicity" in my title is a deliberate variation on "multiculturalism," whose core meaning raises issues of curricular choice, educational philosophy, and public policy. "Cultural multiplicity,"...
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From: Isak Dinesen and NarrativityOut of Africa has been considered generically elusive. As Susan Hardy Aiken writes in her recent book Isak Dinesen and the Engendering of Narrative, Out of Africa is [s]ituated between the discourses of history and...
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From: Studies in Short FictionStructuring [“The Diver”] are plot elements that we find also in “The Ring” and “Babette's Feast”: a desire for transcendence (represented by the motifs of birds and angels); a fall (or its refusal) caused by the “real...
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From: Mosaic[(essay date Summer 1983) Stambaugh is an educator, novelist, and critic whose works include The Witch and the Goddess in the Stories of Isak Dinesen (1988). In the following essay, she examines Dinesen's "complex"...
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From: in ExplicatorThe meaning latent in the name of Babette Hersant, the main character in Isak Dinesen's short story "Babette's Feast," associates Babette with Saint Barbara, thereby enriching the theological implications of the story....
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From: The Southern Review[(essay date March 1966) Lewis is a novelist, poet, editor, educator, and librettist. In the following essay, she discusses Out of Africa and the short stories in Seven Gothic Tales, Winter's Tales, and Last Tales,...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Isak Dinesen liked to disclaim the complex erudition of her tales and to speak of herself as a `story-teller', a Scheherazade, whose mission was simply to `entertain' people. Entertain them she did, with leisurely and...
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From: Scandinavian Studies[(essay date spring 2001) In the following essay, Mussari considers Dinesen's use of the color blue in the imagery of the stories comprising Winter's Tales.] Ein blauer Augenblick ist nur mehr Seele. [A blue moment is...
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From: The New York Times Book Review[Considered a perceptive observer of the human condition and an accomplished stylist, Updike is among America's most distinguished men of letters. Best known for such novels as Rabbit Run (1960), Rabbit is Rich (1981),...
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From: Scandinavian Studies[(essay date Autumn 1985) In the following essay, Black describes Osceola as a collection of "three kinds of fantastic tales" whose "interrogations of reality" satirize bourgeois values and sensibilities.] Until...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionBorn into an old family of Danish nobility and writing both in Danish and in English under her maiden name at times, at times under the best-known of her pseudonyms, Isak Dinesen became world famous for her reminiscences...
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From: Proceedings of the XIIth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association: 1988 Munich, III: Space and Boundaries in Literature (Continuation)[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Larsen offers a semiotic reading of the landscape presented in the opening lines of “Sorrow-Acre.” Connecting the story’s setting to the relationships among its characters,...
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From: Scandinavian Studies[(essay date autumn 1985) In the following essay, Aiken interprets the story "The Cardinal's First Tale" as "a particularly apposite instance" of Dinesen's "self-referential" narrative style and her "subversive...
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From:Throughout [Dinesen's tales] runs a theme of common humanity surrendered in exchange for something else— pride? power? above all for the ability to turn life, with its muddle and pain, into art—exquisite where life is...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[In the following essay, Phillips compares Isak Dinesen's short story “The Monkey” (1934) with The Ballad of the Sad Café and argues that Dinesen's tale was a likely source of inspiration for McCullers.] Originality is...