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  • Re-mapping Lagerlöf

    Performance, Intermediality, and European Transmission

    Edited by Helena Forsås-Scott, Lisbeth Stenberg, Bjarne Thorup Thomsen ...
    This innovative volume presents, for the first time ever, cutting-edge research about the Swedish Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) in one comprehensive resource. Written by scholars from a range of countries, it highlights the interdisciplinarity of current Lagerlöf research and the latest trends in it, frequently cutting across genres, media, and disciplines. The structure of the book - ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Re-mapping Lagerlöf : performance, intermediality and European transmissions

    Edited by Helena Forsås-Scott, Lisbeth Stenberg, Bjarne Thorup Thomsen ...
    For the first time ever, cutting-edge research about the Swedish Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerlöf and her work is made available to a world-wide audience in one comprehensive volume. Written by an international group of scholars, Re-Mapping Lagerlöf highlights the interdisciplinarity of current Lagerlöf research which frequently cuts across genres, media and disciplines.The structure of the book, ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Egil's Saga

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  • Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories

    by Penguin Books Ltd ...
    Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics. They take as their subjects figures who are heroic, but do not fit into the mould of traditional heroes. Some stories concern characters in Iceland - among them Hrafknel's Saga, in which a poor man's son is murdered by ... Read more

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  • Norse Mythology: All about Vikings

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  • Four Major Plays, Volume II

    by Henrik Ibsen, Terry Otten ...
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    Series Book 2 - Four Plays by Ibsen
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    by Joan Templeton ...
    The first comprehensive study of the women in Ibsen’s life and work, this landmark book provides a close reading of actual and fictional women as it re-examines the biographical and critical record. In clear, much praised writing, Templeton traces patterns of gender throughout Ibsen’s plays, from the portrayals of women in the little known early dramas to the famous protagonists of A Doll House, ... Read more

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  • The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen

    by Hans Christian Andersen, Maria Tatar ...
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  • The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era

    Presenting the Past

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  • Icons of Danish Modernity

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    Julie Allen utilizes the lives and friendship of the Danish literary critic George Brandes (1842-1927) and the silent film star Asta Nielsen (1881-1972) to explore questions of culture and national identity in early twentieth-century Denmark. Danish culture and politics were influenced in this period by the country's deeply ambivalent relationship with Germany. Brandes and Nielsen, both of whom ... Read more

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    Brian Johnston's approach to Ibsen, now well known, is unlike any other. Johnston sees Ibsen's twelve realist plays as a single cyclical work, the "realist" method of which hides a much larger poetic intention than has previously been suspected. He believes that the cycle constitutes one of the major works of the European imagination, comparable in scale to Goethe or Dante. And he has shown Ibsen ... Read more

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