Isak Dinesen and narrativity : reassessments for the 1990s / edited by Gurli A. Woods.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woods, Gurli A., Author.

Contributor:

Woods, Gurli A. (Gurli Aagaard), 1942-

Centre TADAC.

Series:

Papers (Centre TADAC) ; 3.

TADAC papers ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blixen, Karen, 1885-1962--Criticism and interpretation.

Blixen, Karen.

Feminist literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ottawa, ON, Canada : Carleton University Press for the Centre for Textual Analysis, Discourse and Culture, c1994.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

""The Poetics of the Story: On Symbolist Tendencies in Isak Dinesen's Fiction""""Isak 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 Pisa"""" ""Isak 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""; ""Notes on the Contributors""

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-230) and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-282-86415-7

9786612864155

0-7735-7394-1

OCLC:

929121460