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Danish Literature As World Literature

Product Description: Despite being a minor language, Danish literature is one of the world's most actively translated, and the Scandinavian country is the home of a number of significant writers. Hans Christian Andersen remains one of the most translated authors in the world, philosopher Søren Kierkegaard inspired modern Existentialism, Karen Blixen chronicled her life in colonial Kenya as well as writing imaginary, cosmopolitan tales, and the writers among the circles of literary critic Georg Brandes in the late 19th century were especially important to the further development of European Modernism...read more

By Thomas Oliver Beebee (editor)

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9781501310010 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, February 9, 2017, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Despite being a minor language, Danish literature is one of the world's most actively translated, and the Scandinavian country is the home of a number of significant writers.

SÃ¸ren Kierkegaard: Entweder Â Oder

By Markus Kleinert (editor)

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9783110444841, titled "SÃ¸ren Kierkegaard: Entweder â Oder" | Walter De Gruyter Inc, February 1, 2017, cover price $35.00

Invisible Hands

Product Description: Inspector Kristian Wold is assigned to a year-old missing personâs case. His superiorsâ instructions are clear: one last review before they shelve it. Nevertheless, when the mother of the 14-year-old missing girl asks to see him, his conscience gets the better of him and he agrees to a meeting; a meeting that has unforeseen consequences for both of them...read more

By Sean Kinsella (trans)

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9781564788566 | Dalkey Archive Pr, June 24, 2016, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Inspector Kristian Wold is assigned to a year-old missing personâs case.

Johanne, Johanne

By Paul Larkin (trans)

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9781628971323 | Dalkey Archive Pr, July 22, 2016, cover price $15.00

Studies in the Transmission and Reception of Old Norse Literature: The Hyperborean Muse in European Culture

By Maria Adele Cipolla (editor) and Judy Quinn (editor)

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9782503555539 | Bilingual edition (Brepols Pub, June 30, 2016), cover price $130.00

Durrenmatt: A Study in Plays, Prose, Theory

Product Description: Dürrenmatt's apparently conflicting statements about his central concerns have baffled scholars attempting to interpret his works. In his critical approach to Dürrenmatt, Timo Tiusanen emphasizes the author's relation to the theater, and analyzes the thirteen original stage plays, eight radio plays, and five adaptations, using the special concept of "scenic image" developed in an earlier study of O'Neill...read more

By Timo Tiusanen

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9780691636689 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: Dürrenmatt's apparently conflicting statements about his central concerns have baffled scholars attempting to interpret his works.

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9780691608211 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 8, 2015, cover price $70.00

Songs of Something Else: Selected Poems of Gunnar Ekelof

By Leoard Nathan (trans)

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9780691642123 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $74.95

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9780691614496 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $29.95

The Sagas of Norwegian Kings 1130-1265: An Introduction

Product Description: In The Sagas of Norwegian Kings (1130â1265), Theodore M. Andersson offers an orientation to the category of Icelandic sagas known as "kings' sagas," a genre of Old Norse-Icelandic prose literature less known than the somewhat later sagas of early Icelanders and their extended families...read more

By Theodore M. Andersson

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9780935995206 | Cornell Univ Libraries, April 26, 2016, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: In The Sagas of Norwegian Kings (1130â1265), Theodore M.

New Norse Studies: Essays on the Literature and Culture of Medieval Scandinavia

Product Description: New Norse Studies, edited by Jeffrey Turco, gathers twelve original essays engaging aspects of Old Norse–Icelandic literature that continue to kindle the scholarly imagination in the twenty-first century. The assembled authors examine the arrière-scène of saga literature; the nexus of skaldic poetry and saga narrative; medieval and post-medieval gender roles; and other manifestations of language, time, and place as preserved in Old Norse–Icelandic texts...read more

By Jeffrey Turco

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9780935995237 | Cornell Univ Libraries, February 28, 2016, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: New Norse Studies, edited by Jeffrey Turco, gathers twelve original essays engaging aspects of Old Norse–Icelandic literature that continue to kindle the scholarly imagination in the twenty-first century.

The Poetics of Commemoration: Skaldic Verse and Social Memory, C. 890-1070

By Erin Michelle Goeres

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9780198745747 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 19, 2016, cover price $100.00

Heimskringla: An Interpretation

By Birgit Sawyer

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9780866985383 | Mrts, December 28, 2015, cover price $55.00

Avalon, 66Â° Nord: Zu FrÃ¼hgeschichte Und Rezeption Eines Mythos

Product Description: Egeler has produced the first scholarly treatise about the mythical kingdoms of Odainsakr und Glaesisvelir that fully examines the relevant materials and places them in the larger context of religious and literary history. He shows that these two mythical otherworldly realms in Old West Norse tradition represent the northern reception of Celtic mythical themes that play such a large part in Arthurian and Early Irish literature...read more

By Matthias Egeler

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9783110447347, titled "Avalon, 66Â° Nord: Zu FrÃ¼hgeschichte Und Rezeption Eines Mythos" | Walter De Gruyter Inc, October 16, 2015, cover price $182.00 | About this edition: Egeler has produced the first scholarly treatise about the mythical kingdoms of Odainsakr und Glaesisvelir that fully examines the relevant materials and places them in the larger context of religious and literary history.

Rethinking National Literatures and the Literary Canon in Scandinavia

By Ann-sofie Lonngren (editor)

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9781443878388 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, September 15, 2015, cover price $81.95

Heimdallr - Der Ratselhafte Gott: Eine Philologische Und Religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung

By Sebastian Collen

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9783110426519 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, September 11, 2015, cover price $154.00

Institutions of World Literature: Writing, Translation, Markets

By Pieter Vermeulen (editor)

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9781138832541 | Routledge, July 1, 2015, cover price $145.00

Non-native Sources for the Scandinavian Kings' Sagas

Product Description: Traditional scholarship on the kings' sagas has tended to focus on the textual histories and interrelationships between the various twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scandinavian manuscripts. Thus previous scholars have striven to ascertain chronology, dating, and potential literary borrowings between the various native medieval manuscripts without considering the possibility of foreign textual influences on native literary traditions...read more

By Paul A. White

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9781138878396 | Routledge, July 31, 2015, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Traditional scholarship on the kings' sagas has tended to focus on the textual histories and interrelationships between the various twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scandinavian manuscripts.

The Bare-sarked Warrior: A Brief Cultural History of Battlefield Exposure

By Oren Falk

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9780866985024 | Mrts, May 11, 2015, cover price $55.00

A Commentary on the Old English Version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

By Valentine A. Pakis (editor)

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9780866985376 | Mrts, May 8, 2015, cover price $45.00

Icons of Danish Modernity: Georg Brandes and Asta Nielsen

By Julie K. Allen

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9780295992204 | Univ of Washington Pr, January 28, 2013, cover price $50.00

9780263128055, titled "Shotgun Wedding" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 1, 1991), cover price $16.95 | also contains Shotgun Wedding

9780405024689, titled "Diary of Philip Hone 1825-1851" | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1970, cover price $57.95 | also contains Diary of Philip Hone 1825-1851

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9780295994833 | Univ of Washington Pr, April 6, 2015, cover price $30.00

Love and Modernity: Scandinavian Literature, Drama and Letters, Essays in Honour of Professor Janet Garton

By Elettra Carbone (editor) and C. Claire Thomson (editor)

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9781870041997 | Norvik Pr, January 15, 2015, cover price $32.00

Njals Saga and its Christian Background: A Study of Narrative Method - Germania Latina VIII

By Andrew Hamer

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9789042930896 | Peeters Bvba, December 31, 2014, cover price $106.00

Folklore in Old Norse: Old Norse in Folklore

By Daniel Savborg (editor)

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9789949327041 | Isd, December 30, 2014, cover price $15.00

Globalization in Literature

Product Description: This collection of essays is presented in the context of rethinking the field of literature and cultural studies in an era when cultural identity is changing. From a Scandinavian perspective, the point of departure is that today we are developing as post-national constellations and cosmopolitan selves...read more

By Per Thomas Andersen (editor)

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9788232100033 | Intl Specialized Book Services, November 24, 2014, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This collection of essays is presented in the context of rethinking the field of literature and cultural studies in an era when cultural identity is changing.

Illuminating the North: Proceedings from the Nordic Research Network Conference 2013

Product Description: The Nordic Research Network (NRN) began as a forum for UK- based early career researchers to share their work with peers in a convivial intellectual environment. As a multi-disciplinary gathering, the regular conference provides an opportunity for scholars in all areas of Nordic research to keep up with the diverse subjects and projects being pursued by colleagues across the country...read more

By Agnes Broome (editor), Pei-sze Chow (editor), Nichola Smalley (editor), Louisa Taylor (editor) and Essi Viitanen (editor)

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9781909408166 | Norvik Pr, November 15, 2014, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: The Nordic Research Network (NRN) began as a forum for UK- based early career researchers to share their work with peers in a convivial intellectual environment.

Product Description: Islandica LVIIcelandic Baroque seeks to approach the writings of Hallgrimur Petursson (1614â1674), Iceland's leading devotional poet, from a new direction. Hallgrimur is best known for his Passiusalmar, fifty hymns that contemplate the crucifixion and death of Christ, using a variety of meters and melodies; they have been sung in Iceland over Lent for many generations...read more

By Margrât EggertsdÂ¢ttir and Andrew Wawn (trans)

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9780935995169, titled "Icelandic Baroque: Poetic Art and Erudition in the Works of HallgrÃmur PÃ©tursson" | Cornell Univ Libraries, October 21, 2014, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Islandica LVIIcelandic Baroque seeks to approach the writings of Hallgrimur Petursson (1614â1674), Iceland's leading devotional poet, from a new direction.

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