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Title

Nordic storyteller : essays in honour of Niels Ingwersen / edited by Susan Brantly and Thomas A. DuBois.

Publication

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ingwersen, Niels.
• Brantly, Susan.
• DuBois, Thomas A. (Thomas Andrew), 1960-

Description

vii, 420 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm

Subject

• Folk literature > History and criticism
• Tales > Scandinavia > History and criticism
• Songs > Scandinavia > History and criticism
• Folklore > Scandinavia > History
• Folk literature
• Folklore
• Songs
• Tales
• Volksliteratur
• Skandinavische Sprachen
• Scandinavia

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Niels Ingwersen: an appreciation / Susan C. Brantly -- "Riddar sancte orrian": Ballad tradition and the medieval Swedish cult of St. George / Tracey R. Sands -- Traumatic transformations: Villy Sørensen's interpretive schema and four English-Scottish ballads / Larry Syndergaard -- By faith alone? The black book, key to popular piety in the wake of the Reformation / Kathleen Stokker -- Strong wife: ML 5090 / John Lindow -- Carl Gundersen's trip to the lumber camp / James P. Leary -- Eqqaamavara, I remember. Storytelling in Greenland today / Kirsten Thisted -- Telling stories to a national archive / Barbro Klein -- Asbjørnsen at Rondane: hunting for legends and reindeer / James Massengale -- Frithiof's motley cousins: on the perils of using folklore to create a national epic -- Thomas A. DuBois / Picture as story: Arthur Rackham and the ballads / John D. Niles -- "Hvad siger den lille sommergjæk?" Flowers and embedded stories in H.C. Andersen's tales / Scott A. Mellor -- Prolegomena to a non-extant translation of det graa hus / George C. Schoolfield -- "Woods take revenge." No place to hide / Mary Kay Norseng -- Adventures of David Copperfield in Nova Scotia / Kirsten Wolf -- Tonio Kröger's imagined Denmark: poeticized reality of decadent fantasy? / Julie K. Allen -- Isak Dinesen and the lessons of Scheherazade / Susan C. Brantly -- Pelle erobreren: folklore, ideology and film / Timothy R. Tangherlini -- Perceptions of education and learning from Stolen Spring to Borderliners: the development of the Danish educational system in the 20th century / Nete Schmidt -- Reflections on the political climate in an apolitical world: Kjartan Fløgstad's Det 7. klima / Tanya Thresher.

ISBN

• 1443801453
• 9781443801454

LCCN

2009415610

OCLC

• ocn312416314
• 312416314
• SCSB-1527087

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library