Danish literature as world literature
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Danish literature as world literature
（Literatures as world literature）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
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Originally published: 2017
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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 Soren 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.
Danish Literature as World Literature introduces key figures from 800 years of Danish literature and their impact on world literature. It includes chapters devoted to post-1945 literature on beat and systemic poetry as well as the Scandinavia noir vogue that includes both crime fiction and cinema and is enjoying worldwide popularity.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Danish Literature as World Literature
Dan Ringgaard and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
1. History of the Danes: Saxo the Grammarian and Saxo the Rune Master
Pernille Hermann (Aarhus University, Denmark)
2. Travelling Ballads: The Dissemination of Danish Medieval Ballads in Germany and Britain, 1760s to 1830s
Lis Moller (Aarhus University, Denmark)
3. Ludvig Holberg: A Man of Transition in the 18th Century
Svend Erik Larsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
4. A Man of the World: Hans Christian Andersen
Karin Sanders (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
5. Straight into the Bliss of Knowing: Soren Kierkegaard's Influence on Franz Kafka
Isak Winkel Holm (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
6. Modern Denmark: Brandes - Jacobsen - Bang
Annegret Heitmann (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)
7. Towards a New World: Johannes V. Jensen and Henrik Pontoppidan
Jon Helt Haarder (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
8. Out of Africa, into World Literature
Lasse Horne Kjaeldgaard (Roskilde University, Denmark)
9. Breaking New Ground - Danish Poets in the Intersection Between Modernism and Postmodernism
Anne-Marie Mai (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
10. 'A Faithful, Attentive, Tireless Following': Cultural Mobility, Crime Fiction, and Television Drama
C. Claire Thomson and Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen (University College London, UK)
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