A History of Danish Literature
Author: Sven Hakon Rossel
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 732
ISBN-13: 9780803238862
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Danish Literature as World Literature
Author: Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2017-02-09
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1501310038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite being a minor language, Danish literature is one of the world's most actively translated, and the Scandinavian country is the home of a number of significant writers. Hans Christian Andersen remains one of the most translated authors in the world, philosopher Søren Kierkegaard inspired modern Existentialism, Karen Blixen chronicled her life in colonial Kenya as well as writing imaginary, cosmopolitan tales, and the writers among the circles of literary critic Georg Brandes in the late 19th century were especially important to the further development of European Modernism. Danish Literature as World Literature introduces key figures from 800 years of Danish literature and their impact on world literature. It includes chapters devoted to post-1945 literature on beat and systemic poetry as well as the Scandinavia noir vogue that includes both crime fiction and cinema and is enjoying worldwide popularity.
The German Influence in Danish Literature
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Publisher: CUP Archive
Published:
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781001287843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe German Influence in Danish Literature in the Eighteenth Century
Author: J. W. Eaton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-02-19
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1107487501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1929, this book was written to provide an account of the German circle in Copenhagen during the mid-eighteenth century, revealing 'the very real debt which Danish literature and thought owed to the German writers who were in Copenhagen between the years 1740 and 1770'. A bibliography is included and detailed notes are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in European literature, literary criticism and comparative literature.
Danish Literature as World Literature
Author: Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2017-02-09
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 150131002X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite being a minor language, Danish literature is one of the world's most actively translated, and the Scandinavian country is the home of a number of significant writers. Hans Christian Andersen remains one of the most translated authors in the world, philosopher Søren Kierkegaard inspired modern Existentialism, Karen Blixen chronicled her life in colonial Kenya as well as writing imaginary, cosmopolitan tales, and the writers among the circles of literary critic Georg Brandes in the late 19th century were especially important to the further development of European Modernism. Danish Literature as World Literature introduces key figures from 800 years of Danish literature and their impact on world literature. It includes chapters devoted to post-1945 literature on beat and systemic poetry as well as the Scandinavia noir vogue that includes both crime fiction and cinema and is enjoying worldwide popularity.
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Author: Peter Høeg
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2010-04-01
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 1429998539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Time Best Book of the Year · An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year · A People Best Book of the Year · Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger Award · A Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel First published in 1992, Peter Høeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow instantly became an international sensation. When caustic Smilla Jaspersen discovers that her neighbor--a neglected six-year-old boy, and possibly her only friend--has died in a tragic accident, a peculiar intuition tells her it was murder. Unpredictable to the last page, Smilla's Sense of Snow is one of the most beautifully written and original crime stories of our time, a new classic.
Danish Folktales, Legends, and Other Stories
Author: Timothy R. Tangherlini
Publisher:
Published: 2014-02-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9788763541183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower and achieved independence in the Baltic "Singing Revolution". When attacked by Soviet soldiers in public displays of violent force, singing Balts maintained faith in non-violent political action. As an inspiration to all nations, the non-violent Baltic independence movement revolutionised each country through singing and smiling. The "Singing Revolution" is indeed the essence of the Baltic way, and began in 1987 as a public revolt against Soviet restrictions on free speech and assembly. The revolutions and following elections in 1990 resulted in three separate governments and a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union. The book seeks to answer questions such as why the struggle for Baltic independence came to be called the Singing Revolution? What did they sing? And what role did singing play in the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian campaigns of political mobilisation and non-violent action? Furthermore, and uniquely for this publication, it explores, in great depth, the songs that gave the revolution its name, translating and interpreting over 110 choral, rock, and folk songs in their poetic, cultural, and historical context.
Borderliners
Author: Peter Høeg
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0374115540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA novel that challenges ideas of education and childhood relates the tale of a boy who grows up in institutions and becomes drawn to outsiders at an elite private school.
The Danish History
Author: Saxo Grammaticus
Publisher:
Published: 2021-02-23
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow Dan and Angul, with whom the stock of the Danes begins, were begotten of Humble, their father, and were the governors and not only the founders of our race. (Yet Dudo, the historian of Normandy, considers that the Danes are sprung and named from the Danai.) And these two men, though by the wish and favour of their country they gained the lordship of the realm, and, owing to the wondrous deserts of their bravery, got the supreme power by the consenting voice of their countrymen, yet lived without the name of king: the usage whereof was not then commonly resorted to by any authority among our people. Of these two, Angul, the fountain, so runs the tradition, of the beginnings of the Anglian race, caused his name to be applied to the district which he ruled. This was an easy kind of memorial wherewith to immortalise his fame: for his successors a little later, when they gained possession of Britain, changed the original name of the island for a fresh title, that of their own land.
Women of the Danish Golden Age
Author: Katalin Nun
Publisher: Danish Golden Age Studies
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788763539135
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This broad, interdisciplinary work explores the little recognized contributions of women to the cultural life of the Danish Golden Age. Featuring chapters on the novelist Thomasine Gyllembourg, the actress Johanne Luise Heiberg and the feminist writer Mathilde Fibiger, this text spans three generations of women from the early to the late Golden Age and indeed beyond. Further it treats the notions about what was considered the proper role of women in Danish society at the time, including the views of male authors such as Søren Kierkegaard and Hans Lassen Martensen. This work provides a fascinating panorama of personalities, literary texts, theater performances, art works and social-political debates, which collectively give the reader a rich appreciation of the importance of women for the age."--Publisher's website.
