Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> European - Scandinavian

Cecil Bodker's characters are raw and sensitive, unpredictable and universal. The young boy, Tacit, untangles secrets in mythic stories of family, love and sacrifice. Each character has refused to leave me.
Jacqueline Sheehan, New York Times bestselling author of The Center of the World

Once-in-a-lifetime storytelling with the power of Faulkner. These characters live and breathe in Michael Goldman's expert translation. Cecil Bodker's prose rings with sheer humanness that connects us all.
Casey Harding, Managing Editor, The Missing Slate

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In this book of translated Danish poetry, farming is not used as a background for personal drama but as the speaker's central subject. The poet succeeds in defining his central task as the vivid evocation of the repeated seasonal chores that make up the essence of farming life. Never sentimental, and often humorous, the book might be called an earthy celebration of essential ritual; but it is an elegy as well, for the poems also chronicle the pressures that lead to collapse of farming as a vocation, describing the slow shift of a vital farming village into a bedroom community for those...

This volume explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past. How does an author s nationality or gender impact their artistic choices? To what extent can historical novels appeal to a transnational audience? This study demonstrates how histories can communicate across national borders, often by invoking or deconstructing the very notion of nationhood. Furthermore, it traces how the concerns of the postmodern era, such as postmodern critiques of historiography, colonialism, identity, and the Enlightenment, have impacted the...

In Heroic Sagas and Ballads, Stephen A. Mitchell examines the world of the medieval Icelandic legendary sagas and their legacy in Scandinavia. Central to his argument is the view that these heroic texts should be studied in the light of the later Icelandic Middle Ages rather than that of the Viking age, although the stories, the tellers, and the audiences are clearly concerned with exactly this period of Scandinavian history.

Viewing these sagas as the products of highly diverse forms of inspiration and creation--some oral, some written--Mitchell explores their aesthetic and...

Die neue deutsche Kierkegaard-Ubersetzung beruht auf der danischen Edition Soren Kierkegaards Skrifter, der vollstandigen, historisch-kritischen Ausgabe von Kierkegaards Schriften, die seit 1994 im Soren Kierkegaard Forschungszentrum in Kopenhagen erstellt wird.

Journale und Aufzeichnungen
Die DSKE beginnt mit der Ubersetzung der auf elf Bande angelegten Journale und Aufzeichnungen. Hier hat die danische Ausgabe insofern neue Mastabe in der Editionsphilologie gesetzt, als sie fruhere Eingriffe in die Manuskripte durch Verwendung von Licht- und...

In this book of translated Danish poetry, farming is not used as a background for personal drama but as the speaker's central subject. The poet succeeds in defining his central task as the vivid evocation of the repeated seasonal chores that make up the essence of farming life. Never sentimental, and often humorous, the book might be called an earthy celebration of essential ritual; but it is an elegy as well, for the poems also chronicle the pressures that lead to collapse of farming as a vocation, describing the slow shift of a vital farming village into a bedroom community for those who...