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Nordic experiences : exploration of Scandinavian cultures
- Title
- Nordic experiences : exploration of Scandinavian cultures / edited by Berit I. Brown.
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- xiv, 320 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Contributions to the study of world literature, 0738-9345 ; no. 71
- Uniform Title
- Contributions to the study of world literature ; no. 71.
- Subject
- Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907 > Influence > Congresses
- Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907
- Grieg, Edvard, (1843-1907) > Influence > Congrès
- Civilization
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Kultur
- Kongress
- Cultuur
- Letterkunde
- Scandinavia > Civilization > Congresses
- Scandinavia
- Skandinavien
- Scandinavia > Civilization
- Scandinavie > Civilisation > Congrès
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Note
- Papers presented at a conference held in Nov. 1993 at 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.
- ISBN
- 0313299544
- 9780313299544
- LCCN
- 96018203
- OCLC
- ocm34617620
- 34617620
- SCSB-2109464
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library