Product Description: Amalie Skram was a major nineteenth-century Norwegian novelist whose novels such as Lucie evoke both the atmosphere of her native town and the battles of the sexes at a time when sexual morality was the subject of a great Nordic debate...read more

Product Description: This is a multilingual collection of more than fifty essays in English, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish by a distinguished group of scholars investigating the idea of transitions. Some of the authors are concerned with periods of transition in literary and cultural history, with apocalypse and fin-de-sieclé on the one hand and rebirth and renewal on the other...read more

Product Description: The period of 1870-1910 is one of the most important in Scandinavian literature and culture, and is referred to as The Modern Breakthrough. Many great works were produced during this period, as well as a wealth of letters. The eighteen essays in this collection explore various aspects of the correspondence among the many significant figures of this period, including Ibsen, Strindberg, Hamsun, Delius, Brandes, Skram, and Nielsen...read more

Product Description: Novels, short stories, drama, and poetry are all represented in this collection covering the years 1970 to 1995. Many of the selections deal with women's attitudes about their own sexuality; others deal with their place in society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Volume One in a new series, this book covers Norwegian women's writing over the last 150 years, setting literary developments against the background of the emergence and growth of the women's movement in Norway. The work is divided chronologically into three sections: the period up to 1913, when the universal suffrage was granted; the period from 1913 to 1960, a time of stagnation in the women's movement, with little involvement in contemporary political, social and economic debates; and the period from 1960 to the present day, which has seen an increasing participation of women in public life...read more

Product Description: Garton and Sehmsdorf provide an introduction to contemporary Norwegian theater, a list of English translations of the 4 dramatists' works, and a select bibliography...The plays at hand are meant to reflect the diversity of contemporary Norwegian dramatic writing - A fine selection, ably translated""-Scandinavian Studies...read more

Product Description: This engaging novel varies the `Sleeping Beauty' fairy tale into the realm of serious psychological fiction - Maude, a forty-seven-year-old virgin, is in love with Mr. Eldmann, a quiet, unassuming fellow boarding-house resident. She convinces herself that Eldmann is communicating with her in a secret `language of love'; in reality she's bogged down in a quagmire of self-deception...read more

Product Description: This collection of critical essays is devoted to literary Modernism. The first part explores Modernism as a European phenomenon, including essays on the Berlin Theatre, Edvard Munch, and Beckett. The second part investigates the manifestations of Modernism in Scandinavian literature in general, and in the works of individual authors such as Karen Blixen, Knut Hamsun, and Dag Solstad...read more