The Creative Dialectic In Karen Blixen S Essays
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The Creative Dialectic In Karen Blixen S Essays
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Author : Marianne T. Stecher
language : en
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Release Date : 2014-03-06
The Creative Dialectic In Karen Blixen S Essays written by Marianne T. Stecher and has been published by Museum Tusculanum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
This new study addresses the provocative essays of Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), an iconic figure in Scandinavia and the Anglo-American world. Celebrated for her literary tales, Karen Blixen’s essays offer sagacious reflections on three significant challenges of the twentieth century: feminism, Nazism, and colonialism. Karen Blixen (1885–1962) contributed to topical debates in Denmark, particularly during the 1950s when her distinct voice on Danish radio became familiar to a nation of listeners. Some of her lectures, radio addresses, and newspaper chronicles were later published as essays and now constitute a distinct genre within her work. In this study, Blixen’s most important essays are critically examined for the first time. The book demonstrates that a "creative dialectic" informs these essays, an interplay of complementary opposites that Blixen sees as fundamental to human life and artistic creativity. Whether exploring questions of gender and the status of the feminist movement, or the reign of National Socialism in Hitler’s Germany, or colonial race relations under British rule in East Africa, Blixen’s observations are insightful, witty, and surprisingly progressive for an author notable for aristocratic sensibilities. Blixen’s essays are also framed by a "dialectic method," which develops an idea by drawing on opposing viewpoints in order to arrive at an original vantage point. The Creative Dialectic of Karen Blixen's Essays builds on archival research, historical study, literary criticism and theory, as well as bilingual readings of Blixen’s renowned literary work. For the first time in an English translation, Karen Blixen’s essay “Blacks and Whites in Africa” (1938), by award-winning translator Tiina Nunnally, appears in this publication.
Karen Blixen S Existentialism
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Author : Lars Kaaber
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2023-10-11
Karen Blixen S Existentialism written by Lars Kaaber and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-11 with Philosophy categories.
This book investigates the writings of Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) from an existentialist angle. Although it has not been subject to much study, Blixen’s writing elegantly and subtly integrates the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Sartre in a way that makes the philosophers more accessible to a wider audience. However, Blixen also offers her own ideas of the fundamental problem in existentialism: how to arrive at an authentic identity through free, individual choices – or, as Nietzsche put it: how to become who you are. On the whole, Blixen’s authorship can be seen as an existential study of the 20th century and the ways by which Western culture came to be what it is now. In agreement with Nietzsche’s statement that all philosophy is an involuntary autobiography, this book also contains accounts of the lives of the three philosophers chiefly involved in this study.
Nordic War Stories
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Author : Marianne Stecher-Hansen
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2021-02-03
Nordic War Stories written by Marianne Stecher-Hansen and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-03 with History categories.
Situated on Europe’s northern periphery, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden found themselves caught between warring powers during World War II. Ultimately, these nations survived the conflict as sovereign states whose wartime experiences have profoundly shaped their historiography, literature, cinema and memory cultures. Nordic War Stories explores the commonalities and divergences among the five Nordic countries, examining national historiographies alongside representations of the war years in canonical literary works, travel writing, and film media. Together, they comprise a valuable companion that challenges the myth of Scandinavian homogeneity while demonstrating the powerful influence that the war continues to exert on national identities.
Nordic Literature
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Author : Steven P. Sondrup
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2017-12-15
Nordic Literature written by Steven P. Sondrup and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Nordic Literature: A comparative history is a multi-volume comparative analysis of the literature of the Nordic region. Bringing together the literature of Finland, continental Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Sápmi), and the insular region (Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands), each volume of this three-volume project adopts a new frame through which one can recognize and analyze significant clusters of literary practice. This first volume, Spatial nodes, devotes its attention to the changing literary figurations of space by Nordic writers from medieval to contemporary times. Organized around the depiction of various “scapes” and spatial practices at home and abroad, this approach to Nordic literature stretches existing notions of temporally linear, nationally centered literary history and allows questions of internal regional similarities and differences to emerge more strongly. The productive historical contingency of the “North” as a literary space becomes clear in this close analysis of its literary texts and practices.
L Vinden
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Author : Tom Buk-Swienty
language : da
Publisher: Gyldendal A/S
Release Date : 2019-08-23
L Vinden written by Tom Buk-Swienty and has been published by Gyldendal A/S this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
I Afrika kaldte de hende "The Lioness". Hun ankom i januar 1914 med store drømme om et nyt og frit liv, og forlod kontinentet ribbet for alt i 1931. I de 17 år, hun boede i Kenya, var hun gift med - og skilt fra - den svenske baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, der smittede hende med syfilis. Hun havde en lidenskabelig affære med den engelske adelsmand Denys Finch Hatton, og i ti år var hun direktør for Karen Coffee Company, en stor kaffefarm med flere hundrede ansatte. Med sin medrivende og store fortælleglæde og på baggrund af en omfattende, nylig offentliggjort brevkorrespondance, der gør det muligt at tegne et nyt og frisk portræt af LØVINDEN, skildrer Tom Buk-Swienty Blixens liv i Kenya, præget af økonomiske trængsler, storslåede safarier, fejlslagen høst, verdenskrig, faldende konjunkturer, skilsmisse, forelskelse, grænseløs kærlighed til landet og dets sorte befolkning – og tabet af det alt sammen. Farmen gik konkurs, Denys blev dræbt i et flystyrt, hun var dybt fortvivlet, forsøgte selvmord, men begyndte samtidig for alvor at skrive. Tilbage i Danmark skabte hun sig et verdensnavn som "story-teller".
Die L Win Tania Blixen In Afrika
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Author : Tom Buk-Swienty
language : de
Publisher: Penguin Verlag
Release Date : 2021-10-04
Die L Win Tania Blixen In Afrika written by Tom Buk-Swienty and has been published by Penguin Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Die dramatische Geschichte von Tania Blixen, die als erste Frau eine Kaffeeplantage betreibt und mit dem Memoir »Jenseits von Afrika« Weltruhm erlangt Tom Buk-Swienty zeichnet das vielschichtige Bild einer Frau, die mit wahrer Leidenschaft ihren Traum lebt, im kolonialen Kenia mit der Karen Coffee Company das erste weiblich geführte afrikanische Großunternehmen gründet, als wahre »Löwin«, wie sie bald genannt wird, Dürren, Krankheiten und Kriegen trotzt und dann, nach Dänemark zurückgekehrt, zu einer der bedeutendsten Schriftstellerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts avanciert. Die wahre und höchst abenteuerliche Lebensgeschichte von Tania Blixen, deren mit Meryl Streep in der Hauptrolle verfilmtes Memoir »Jenseits von Afrika« ein Weltbestseller als Buch wie als Film wurde, ist zugleich die erste große Biografie seit Jahrzehnten. Durchgängig illustriert mit teils exklusivem Bildmaterial.
Danske Studier 2014
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Author : Merete K. Jørgensen
language : da
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Danske Studier 2014 written by Merete K. Jørgensen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
Nordic War Stories
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Author : Marianne Stecher-Hansen
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2021-02-03
Nordic War Stories written by Marianne Stecher-Hansen and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-03 with History categories.
Situated on Europe’s northern periphery, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden found themselves caught between warring powers during World War II. Ultimately, these nations survived the conflict as sovereign states whose wartime experiences have profoundly shaped their historiography, literature, cinema and memory cultures. Nordic War Stories explores the commonalities and divergences among the five Nordic countries, examining national historiographies alongside representations of the war years in canonical literary works, travel writing, and film media. Together, they comprise a valuable companion that challenges the myth of Scandinavian homogeneity while demonstrating the powerful influence that the war continues to exert on national identities.
Wrestling With The Devil
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Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2018-03-06
Wrestling With The Devil written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A New York Times Editors’ Choice "A welcome addition to the vast literature produced by jailed writers across the centuries . . . [a] thrilling testament to the human spirit." —Ariel Dorfman, The New York Times Book Review "Wrestling with the Devil is a powerful testament to the courage of Ngũgĩ and his fellow prisoners and validation of the hope that an independent Kenya would eventually emerge." —Minneapolis Star Tribune "The Ngũgĩ of Wrestling with the Devil called not just for adding a bit of color to the canon’s sagging shelf, but for abolition and upheaval." —Bookforum An unforgettable chronicle of the year the brilliant novelist and memoirist, long favored for the Nobel Prize, was thrown in a Kenyan jail without charge Wrestling with the Devil, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's powerful prison memoir, begins literally half an hour before his release on December 12, 1978. In one extended flashback he recalls the night, a year earlier, when armed police pulled him from his home and jailed him in Kenya's Kamĩtĩ Maximum Security Prison, one of the largest in Africa. There, he lives in a prison block with eighteen other political prisoners, quarantined from the general prison population. In a conscious effort to fight back the humiliation and the intended degradation of the spirit, Ngũgĩ—the world-renowned author of Weep Not, Child; Petals of Blood; and Wizard of the Crow—decides to write a novel on toilet paper, the only paper to which he has access, a book that will become his classic, Devil on the Cross. Written in the early 1980s and never before published in America, Wrestling with the Devil is Ngũgĩ's account of the drama and the challenges of writing the novel under twenty-four-hour surveillance. He captures not only the excruciating pain that comes from being cut off from his wife and children, but also the spirit of defiance that defines hope. Ultimately, Wrestling with the Devil is a testimony to the power of imagination to help humans break free of confinement, which is truly the story of all art.
The Production Of Lateness
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Author : Rahel Rivera Godoy-Benesch
language : en
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Release Date : 2020-05-11
The Production Of Lateness written by Rahel Rivera Godoy-Benesch and has been published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study examines how selected authors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries write about their creative processes in old age and thus purposefully produce a late style of their own. Late-life creativity has not always been viewed favourably. Prevalent "peak-and-decline" models suggest that artists, as they grow old, cease to produce highquality work. Aiming to counter such ageist discourses, the present study proposes a new ethics of reading literary texts by elderly authors. For this purpose, it develops a methodology that consolidates textual analysis with cultural gerontology.