Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> European - Scandinavian

Der Band prasentiert die wissenschaftliche Edition von Literatur in skandinavischen Sprachen vom Mittelalter bis zur heutigen Zeit, mit dem Schwerpunkt auf Editionen neuerer Literatur. In breit angelegten Uberblicksaufsatzen werden Editionen, Editoren, Positionen und Institutionen aus wissenschaftshistorischer Perspektive vorgestellt. Zugleich wird substantielle Grundlagenforschung auf dem Gebiet der Editionsgeschichte geleistet. Nationalitatsubergreifende Beitrage zu Themen, die fur ganz Skandinavien von Bedeutung sind, bilden die erste Abteilung des Bandes. In den folgenden Abteilungen...

Sweden at the turn of the previous century. Arvid, an ambitious and well-educated young man, meets Lydia, the daughter of a landscape painter, during an idyllic summer vacation and falls in love. Lydia, however, has other suitors, and Astrid is frightened of being tied down by his emotions. Trapped inside loveless marriages of convenience, they struggle in later years to rekindle the promise of their romance with bitter and tragic results.

Hjalmar Soderberg, born in Stockholm, in 1869, was one Scandinavia's leading modernist writers. The Serious Game is Sweden's most...

Written in a fortnight and often regarded as Strindberg's masterpiece, Miss Julie is shocking in subject-matter, revolutionary in technique, and was fiercely attacked on publication for immorality.
Sweden, 1894. Midsummer night's celebrations are in full swing but the Count's daughter, the beautiful and imperious Miss Julie, feels trapped and alone. Downstairs in the servants' kitchen, handsome and rebellious footman Jean is feeling restless. When they meet a passion is ignited that soon spirals out of control. Strindberg's masterpiece caused a scandal when first produced - and...

These short plays by the great Danish-Norwegian playwright Ludvig Holberg reveal, in brilliant and sparking miniature, his genius for comedy. The plays are here translated into English for the first time, with an introduction by Svend Kragh-Jacobsen, well-known Danish theater critic. In these social comedies Holberg pricks the vanity of snobbery and the worship of riches, deals with the world of the philosophers, and has fun with the theme of common sense. A talkative barber, a scientific charlatan, and an ignorant farmer boy come in for sharp characterization.

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