Re-Writing the Script: Gender and Community in Elin Wagner (Norvik Press Series a) - Softcover

Helena Forsas-Scott

9781870041751: Re-Writing the Script: Gender and Community in Elin Wagner (Norvik Press Series a)

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ISBN 10: 1870041755 ISBN 13: 9781870041751

Publisher: Norvik Pr, 2010

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This volume opens up gendered perspectives on a broad range of 20th-century Scandinavian culture. The book consists of an introduction that theorizes gender and power, and sixteen chapters which explore aspects of gender within a spectrum of disciplines. The author is Senior Lecturer in Swedish and Co-ordinator of Gender Studies at University College London. She has written extensively on Swedish women's writing, particularly that of Elin Wagner, Kerstin Ekman and Selma Lagerlof. ""Putting the work in a social-chronological context helps to follow the development of Wagner both as a writer and as a woman reacting to the world in which she lives."" Book News 11/09

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Helena Forsas-Scott lectures on Scandinavian literature and culture, translation, and gender studies at University College London, and has published extensively on Scandinavian literature and gender. In this thought-provoking study she places Wagner's texts in the context of recent theory on gender and narrative.

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Putting the work in a social-chronological context helps to follow the development of Wagner both as a writer and as a woman reacting to the world in which she lives. --Book News

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