Danish Literature as World Literature

ROSENDAHL THOMSEN MADS

ISBN 10: 1501310011 / ISBN 13: 9781501310010

Published by Bloomsbury, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Danish Literature as World Literature
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501310011
• ISBN 13: 9781501310010
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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 Søren 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.

About the Authors

Mads Rosendahl Thomsen is Professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of Mapping World Literature: International Canonization and Transnational Literature (2008) and The New Human in Literature: Posthuman Visions of Changes in Body, Mind and Society (2013), and the editor of several volumes, including World Literature: A Reader (2012). He is a member of the Academia Europaea and an advisory board member of the Institute for World Literature.

Thomas O. Beebee is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and German, Penn State University, USA. He is the author of Millennial Literatures of the Americas, 1492-2002 (2008), Epistolary Fiction in Europe (1999), The Ideology of Genre: A Comparative Study of Generic Instability (1994) and Clarissa on the Continent: Translation and Seduction (1990).

Dan Ringgaard is a Professor at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University. He is the author of a number of books on poets, poetry and poetics, and, more recently, books on place, on creativity and on the postliterary. Co-editor of A Comparative History of Nordic Literary Cultures 1-3.

Sofia Ahlberg is Vice Dean at the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University, Sweden.