Understanding Isak Dinesen (Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature)
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781570034282
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literature - Classics / Criticism; European - General; Danish; Literary Criticism; Women Authors; Dinesen, Isak,; General; 1885-1962; Criticism and interpretation
First sentence: Dinesen's tales have been described as puzzles, labyrinths, three-dimensional spaces, and multilayered texts embedded with new clues to be discovered upon each rereading.
Description: "Brantly addresses the ambiguous qualities of Dinesen's life and literature that have caused critics to disagree on fundamental points of interpretation, examines her tics to English Gothic, German Romanticism, and other nineteenth-century trends, and considers her work within the contexts of modernism and postmodernism. With close readings of Seven Gothic Tales, Out of Africa.

Shadows on the Grass, Winter's Tales, Last Tales, Anecdotes of Destiny, and Ehrengard, Brantly explores the clues, details, and subplots in texts that critics often describe as puzzles and labyrinths. Brantly reveals the thought and care that Dinesen devoted to the construction of her stories, her expansive knowledge of world literature, and the great pleasure awaiting readers as they unravel the mysteries embedded in her texts."--BOOK JACKET.