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From: Pacific Coast Philology[(essay date September 1994) In the following essay, Stecher-Hansen sheds light on Dinesen's feminist views through an analysis of her essay "Oration at a Bonfire" and her story "The Blank Page."] In her "Oration at a...
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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 Aristocratic Universe of Karen Blixen: Destiny and the Denial of Fate[(essay date 2003) In the following excerpt, Hansen provides a thematic and stylistic overview of several of Dinesen's stories.] Aristocratic Conduct of Life and Bourgeois Lifelessness Winter's Tales Shortly after...
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From: The Witch and the Goddess in the Stories of Isak Dinesen: A Feminist Reading[(essay date 1988) In the following essay, Stambaugh examines Dinesen's portrayals of the effects of patriarchal Christianity on men and women in her short fiction.] Dinesen's opposition to Christianity appears not...
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From:Feminist WritersIn a 1934 interview in Politiken, Karen Blixen explained that she chose to write under a pseudonym and to set her tales in the past because, "Only in that way did I become completely free." This insistence on a human...
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From: Modern Gothic: A Reader[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Stoddart underscores the importance of storytelling and elucidates the theme of gravity in the stories of Seven Gothic Tales.] There is really no getting away from the...