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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: 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: Journal of the Short Story in English[(essay date spring 1988) In the following essay, Knafo-Setton discusses the imaginative stories collected in Seven Gothic Tales, asserting that the volume contains "all her major themes and strengths without heavily...
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From: Religion and Literature[(essay date summer 2001) In the following essay, Sexson utilizes Hebraic law to interpret Dinesen's "The Blank Page."] Thus we cover the universe with drawings we have lived.--Bachelard, The Poetics of Space...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionConsidered by many readers and scholars to be Isak Dinesen's most compelling tale, "The Monkey" ("Aben") is included in her widely acclaimed collection, Seven Gothic Tales, published in 1934 soon after she returned to...
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From:Scandinavian Studies (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDocuments, both private and historical, have made it possible to fulfil the first duty of a biographer, which is to plod, without looking to right or left, in the indelible footprints of truth; unenticed by flowers;...
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From: Southern Humanities Review[(essay date Summer 1995) In the following excerpt from an essay in which he discusses both Out of Africa and Savl Friedänder's memoir of the Holocaust, When Memory Comes (1978), Foster examines the ways in which...
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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 (Vol. 91, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFor more than 4 decades, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, a longtime Nobel Prize in Literature favorite, has been an intense and vocal critic of Karen Blixen's literary rendering of life in the British protectorate-turned-colony where...
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From: The Female Gothic[(essay date 1983) In the following essay, James notes the various ways Dinesen transformed well-established gothic conventions in her work and, focusing on her story "The Monkey," asserts that the author used the gothic...
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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: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: The Gayety of Vision: A Study of Isak Dinesen's ArtThe few brief notes sounded in “The Ring” make an interesting epilogue to the volume [Anecdotes of Destiny]. . . . epilogue reminds us of the contrary theme that has been dealt with for the most part negatively in...
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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: The Nordic Mind: Current Trends in Scandinavian Literary Criticism[(essay date 1986) In the following essay, Andersen presents a brief synopsis of Danish literary critical thought.] It has been extremely exciting to follow Danish literary criticism and research during the last two...
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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: Scandinavian Studies[(essay date summer 2002) In the following essay, Trousdale argues that the embedded stories within "The Deluge at Norderney" are not only tales of self-invention, but also of re-creation.] Isak Dinesen's "The Deluge...
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From:Scandinavian Studies (Vol. 83, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedKvindens Virke er at udvide hendes eget Vosn. Det kan brede sig meget vidt, som et stort Tros Krone, men det har stadig sin Rod i hendes eget Jeg. (Blixen, "En Baaltale" 80) Woman's function is to expand her own...
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From:Nonfiction Classics for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Nonfiction Works (Vol. 2. )The film version of Out of Africa presents Karen Blixen as a courageous woman who can shoot lions alongside her lover Denys Finch-Hatton and withstand the long separations from her husband, Baron Bror Blixen. The film...
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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...