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Title

Nordic experiences : exploration of Scandinavian cultures / edited by Berit I. Brown.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Brown, Berit I.
• Hofstra University.

Description

xiv, 320 p. : ill., map, ports.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Contributions to the study of world literature, 0738-9345 ; no. 71

Subjects

• Scandinavia > Civilization > Congresses
• Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907 > Influence > Congresses

Note

• Papers presented at a conference held in Nov. 1993 at Hofstra University.
• "Prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. Music. Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) / Dorothy Schechter -- Per Nørgård: the role of the artist in a model welfare state / Jean Christensen - II. Literature - the classics. Clive Sinclair's Augustus Rex: misogyny, megalomania, and anti-Semitism in the life of August Strindberg / Peter G. Christensen -- The modes of the spirit: poetic application of theosophical ideas in the works of August Strindberg / Eszter Szalczer -- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson: in the shadow of Ibsen / Ruis D. Woertendyke -- Kierkegaard, the aesthetic life, and Peer Gynt / Robert C. O'Brien -- III. Folklore. Folk literature and the nineteenth-century nationalist movement - Norway: the shaping of national identity / Mette Rudvin -- Giants, gnomes, elves, trolls, and dwarfs / Edmund W. Ostrander -- IV. Icelandic influences: from Snorri to our time. The saintly and the secular: brother Kings Olaf and Harald in Heimskringla / Rebekah Thacker -- The barnyard poet: Stephan G. Stephansson (1853-1927) / Viđar Hreinsson -- V. Cultural background. Criminal proceedings against Birthe Jørgensdatter and her stepfather, Jens Krog of Allerslev, Denmark, in 1765 / Gerald M. Haslam -- Outward loss and inward gain: a transformation for the 1990s / Inga Wiehl -- VI. From Scandinavia to America. Från Norrköping till Nord Amerika: Hedwig Wilhelmina Isaksson Westman Hammarström (1885-1981) / Margaret Ross Bjornson -- The Norwegian-American: a Scandinavian presence in contemporary American literature / Elizabeth Field Hogan -- VII. Women in literature. Love and autonomy in the fiction of Cora Sandel and Mirjam Tuominen / Adma d'Heurle -- "Disgusting," he said. Stella Kleve in the modern breakthrough / Birgitta Ney -- VIII. Art. Edvard Munch's peasants and the invention of Norwegian culture / Patricia G. Berman -- Culture and identity: regionalism and nationalism in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Swedish painting / Karin M. E. Alexis -- IX. Twentieth-century literature. Sigrid Undset and Willa Cather: the uses of Catholicism / Sherrill Harbison -- Nordahl, the other Grieg: poet, playwright, novelist / Philip Duhan Segal -- The ocean of consciousness novel I: Hunger by Knut Hamsun - progenitor of modernism / Ron Whitehead -- Knut Hamsun in his letters / Harald S. Nœss.

Call Number

JFE 97-4460

ISBN

0313299544 (alk. paper)

LCCN

96018203

OCLC

34617620

Title

Nordic experiences : exploration of Scandinavian cultures / edited by Berit I. Brown.

Imprint

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.

Series

Contributions to the study of world literature, 0738-9345 ; no. 71

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Brown, Berit I.

Hofstra University.

Research Call Number

JFE 97-4460