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Title Isak Dinesen and narrativity : reassessments for the 1990s / edited by Gurli A. Woods
Published [Ottawa, Ont.] : Carleton University Press for the Centre for Textual Analysis, Discourse and Culture, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages) : illustrations
Series TADAC papers ; 3
Papers (Centre TADAC) ; 3.
Contents Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Gender and Feminist Perspectives -- Consuming Isak Dinesen -- Life as Fiction: Narrative Appropriation in Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa -- Sp(l)acing out of the (Sub)Text: Rewriting through Landscapes in Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa -- Lilith and Gender Equality in Isak Dinesen's The Supper at Elsinore and The Old Chevalier -- Tapping the Roots: Hidden Sources of Power in Isak Dinesen's The Dreamers -- II. The Symbolist Tradition -- Mallarméan Poetics and Isak Dinesen's Politics in The Blank Page
The Poetics of the Story: On Symbolist Tendencies in Isak Dinesen's FictionIsak Dinesen Among the Victorians: Some Shared Symbolic Techniques -- III. Interpretive Strategies from Rhetoric to Deconstruction -- Isak Dinesen Versus Postmodernism: The Criticism of Modernity and the Problem of Non-simultaneousness in Relation to Isak Dinesen's Work -- Methods of Narratology and Rhetoric for Analyzing Isak Dinesen's The Blank Page -- The Silent Tale: Pragmatic Strategy in Isak Dinesen's The Blank Page
The Phenomenon of Intertextuality and the Role of Androgyny in Isak Dinesen's The Roads Round PisaIsak Dinesen's The Pearls: Resentment and the Economy of Narrative -- Deconstructing the Fictional World of Isak Dinesen's The Monkey -- Works Cited and Consulted -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Notes on the Contributors
Summary Responding to recent Dinesen scholarship and public exposure in such films as Out of Africa and Babette's Feast, these fourteen original essays discuss and reveal the aesthetic subtlety and philosophical complexity of Dinesen's art
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962 fast
Blixen, Tania. swd
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Scandinavian.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
Aufsatzsammlung
Verteltheorie.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Woods, Gurli A. (Gurli Aagaard), 1942-
Centre TADAC.
LC no. 94900438
ISBN 9780773573949
0773573941
1282864157
9781282864153
9786612864155
661286415X