Download or read book Martin Birck s Youth written by Hjalmar Söderberg and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-09 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Sweden in 1901, Hjalmar Söderberg's partly autobiographical second novel traces the development of his hero, an introspective would-be intellectual, from an idyllic Stockholm childhood in the 1870s to the hopes and disillusionments of early manhood. This is a new English translation of the work.
Download or read book Martin Birck s Youth written by Hjalmar Söderberg and published by Norvik Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hjalmar Soderberg's second novel was originally published in 1901, and traces the development of the hero from a seemingly idyllic Stockholm childhood to maturity. It is a book with 'fin de siecle' themes - melancholy, eroticism and decadence.
Download or read book Comparative Criticism Volume 20 Philosophical Dialogues written by E. S. Shaffer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative Criticism is an annual journal of comparative literature and cultural studies that has gained an international reputation since its inception in 1979. It contains major articles on literary theory and criticism; on a wide range of comparative topics; and on interdisciplinary debates. It includes translations of literary, scholarly and critical works; substantial reviews of important books in the field; and bibliographies on specialist themes for the year, on individual writers, and on comparative literary studies in Britain and Ireland.
Download or read book A Literary and Historical Exploration of the Life and Works of Runar Schildt written by George C. Schoolfield and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book written for an English language audience on the work of the Finland-Swedish author, Runar Schildt (1888-1925). Schildt was a highly cosmopolitan writer, who kept a keen eye on the latest continental prose and showed an affinity for the literary decadence that was in fashion around the turn-of-the-century, as well as early modernism. He worked as a literary critic, a theater director, and a translator, which kept him in touch with the latest literary trends in Europe. The book posits that Schildt’s work bears witness to the turbulent times he lived in: he saw his native Finland transformed from a Grand Duchy of Russia to a republic, against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution and the Finnish Civil War. Schildt’s literary career provides important cultural and historical insights into this significant moment of modern European history.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Novel written by Paul Schellinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 2557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of the Novel is the first reference book that focuses on the development of the novel throughout the world. Entries on individual writers assess the place of that writer within the development of the novel form, explaining why and in exactly what ways that writer is importnant. Similarly, an entry on an individual novel discusses the importance of that novel not only form, analyzing the particular innovations that novel has introduced and the ways in which it has influenced the subsequent course of the genre. A wide range of topic entries explore the history, criticism, theory, production, dissemination and reception of the novel. A very important component of the Encyclopedia of the Novel is its long surveys of development of the novel in various regions of the world.
Download or read book A History of Swedish Literature written by Lars G. Warme and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 3.
Download or read book A History of Danish Literature written by Sven Hakon Rossel and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1.
Download or read book The Riverside Dictionary of Biography written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater written by Jan Sjåvik and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-04-19 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literature of Scandinavia is amazingly rich and varied, consisting of the works produced by the countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, and stretching from the ancient Norse Sagas to the present day. While much of it is unknown outside of the region, some has gained worldwide popularity, including the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, the stories of Isak Dinesen, and the plays of Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg. While obviously including the area's most famous works, the Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater also provides information on lesser known authors and currents trends, literary circles and journals, and historical background. This is accomplished through a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries, which together make this reference the most comprehensive and up to date work of its kind related to Scandinavian literature and theater available anywhere.
Download or read book Doctor Glas written by Hjalmar Soderberg and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin–de–siècle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession. Lonely and introspective, Doctor Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility toward the odious local minister. So when the minister's beautiful wife complains of her husband's oppressive sexual attentions, Doctor Glas finds himself contemplating murder. A masterpiece of enduring power, Doctor Glas confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping intensity.
Download or read book The World Republic of Letters written by Pascale Casanova and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "world of letters" has always seemed a matter more of metaphor than of global reality. In this book, Pascale Casanova shows us the state of world literature behind the stylistic refinements--a world of letters relatively independent from economic and political realms, and in which language systems, aesthetic orders, and genres struggle for dominance. Rejecting facile talk of globalization, with its suggestion of a happy literary "melting pot," Casanova exposes an emerging regime of inequality in the world of letters, where minor languages and literatures are subject to the invisible but implacable violence of their dominant counterparts. Inspired by the writings of Fernand Braudel and Pierre Bourdieu, this ambitious book develops the first systematic model for understanding the production, circulation, and valuing of literature worldwide. Casanova proposes a baseline from which we might measure the newness and modernity of the world of letters--the literary equivalent of the meridian at Greenwich. She argues for the importance of literary capital and its role in giving value and legitimacy to nations in their incessant struggle for international power. Within her overarching theory, Casanova locates three main periods in the genesis of world literature--Latin, French, and German--and closely examines three towering figures in the world republic of letters--Kafka, Joyce, and Faulkner. Her work provides a rich and surprising view of the political struggles of our modern world--one framed by sites of publication, circulation, translation, and efforts at literary annexation.
Download or read book A Baedeker of Decadence written by George C. Schoolfield and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the final decades of the nineteenth century, a common mind-set emerged among many intellectuals--"la decadence." Many novels and novellas of the period were populated with protagonists who were fragile, refined, self-absorbed, and preoccupied with a trivially exquisite aesthetic. A Baedeker of Decadence presents thirty-two international works of literary decadence written between 1884 and 1927. George C. Schoolfield, a world authority on the decadent novel, offers an entertaining and wide-ranging commentary on this highly significant literary and cultural phenomenon. Schoolfield tracks down the symptoms of decadence in narrative works written in more than a dozen languages, providing synopses and passages in English translation to give a sense of each author's style and tone. Schoolfield throws new light on the close intellectual kinship of authors from August Strindberg to Bram Stoker to Thomas Mann, and on the ingredients, themes, motifs, and preconceptions that characterized decadent literature.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1958 with total page 1794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 1 & 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - December)
Download or read book Youth Culture in Late Modernity written by Johan Fornäs and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literatuuropgave : p. 169-185. - Met reg. Topics include youth culture and subculture and their relation to popular and high culture; youth, the media and moral panics; and youth and literary texts.
Download or read book Blowing Her Own Trumpet written by Margaret Myers and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this dissertation is to trace the significance and separate fields of public musical activity of professional women instrumentalists with a special focus on ladies' orchestras until 1921 when women were enfranchised in Sweden. After this the course of development of ladies' orchestras until their decline in the 1940's is followed exclusively. Aspects of social reality and the 'spirit of the times' are analysed in order to cast light on the special situation of women musicians in a cultural sphere dominated by males whose power to define cultural norms has since resulted in the almost total disappearance of women from the musico-historical record.
Download or read book Plain Talk written by and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Esther Forbes written by Jack Bales and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated bibliography of criticism, divided into general criticism and criticism of Forbes as a children's writer.
