Contemporary Literary Criticism


Dinesen, Isak (Vol. 95) | Further Reading

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Criticism

Aiken, Susan Hardy. "The Uses of Duplicity: Isak Dinesen and Questions of Feminist Criticism." Scandinavian Studies 57, No. 4 (Autumn 1985): 400-11.

Examines the short story "The Cardinal's First Tale" from a feminist perspective and addresses the issue of women's selfhood within patriarchal culture.

――――――. "Writing (in) Exile: Isak Dinesen and the Poetics of Displacement." In Women's Writing in Exile, edited by Mary Lynn Broe and Angela Ingram, pp. 113-31. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

Discusses the role of "woman as artist and exile" in the short story "The Dreamers."

Arendt, Hannah. "Isak Dinesen: 1885–1963." In her Men in Dark Times. pp. 95-109. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968.

Discusses Dinesen's development as a writer. The essay, originally published...

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