| Description |
xxvi, 323 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Women in culture and society |
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Women in culture and society.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Foreword, by Catharine R. Stimpson -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One - Openings -- 1. "Caprice de femme enceinte": Reconceiving Isak Dinesen -- 2. Becoming "Isak Dinesen": The Fiction of the Author -- 3. Writing (in) Exile: Reverie, Recollection, and the Poetics of Displacement -- Part Two - Spinning Tales -- 4. Gothic Cryptographies -- 5. "A world turned upside down" -- 6. Reading Contracts -- 7. Simian Semiotics -- 8. Circulating Sexes, Wandering Words -- 9. Ghost Writing -- Part Three - The Art of Sacrifice -- 10. Transporting Topographies: Out of Africa and the Poetics of Nostalgia -- Epilogue. Carnival Laughter: The Theater of the Body -- Notes -- Index |
| Analysis |
Dinesen, Isak Technique |
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Narration (Rhetoric) History 20th century |
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Sex role in literature |
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Women and literature Denmark |
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Women in literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-316) and index |
| Subject |
Blixen, Karen, 1885-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962 -- Technique.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Sex role in literature.
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature.
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Women and literature -- Denmark.
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Women in literature.
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| LC no. |
89020482 |
| ISBN |
0226011127 (alk. paper) |
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0226011135 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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