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"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,...
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"Isak Dinesen . . . had an original approach to life that permeated all her work. She loved storytelling, with the result that most of her essays are quasi-narratives, which proceed not from major to minor premise but from one anecdote to another as the way of making concrete whatever idea she is considering. Her work is a delight and at times a marvel." - The New Yorker
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Isak Dinesen (the Danish Baroness Karen Blixen) was one of the most respected writers and fascinating literary personalities of our time. Although her early years were marked by tragedies and failure, courage and an indomitable spirit gave a new direction to her life. By the time she was thirty-five, her world had been shattered: her father had committed suicide; she had been betrayed by her husband; her farm in Africa had been ruined by drought,...
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In 1913, Karen Blixen left her childhood home in Denmark to live on and manage her family's coffee farm in the vast wilderness of East Africa. Blixen recorded her daily life there in letters to her family and, after returning to Denmark, wove her experiences into fiction that she published under the name Isak Dinesen. This body of work revealed not only Blixen's keen insight into human nature but her gift as a storyteller as well. In The Power of...
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Isak Dinesen continues the story of her life in Kenya begun in Out of Africa. These four stories illuminate her love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape. The first three were written in the 1950s and the last, 'Echoes from the Hills', was written especially for this volume in the summer of 1960 when the author was in her seventies.
15) Out of Africa
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The true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who runs a coffee plantation in Kenya (British East Africa) in 1914, and her passionate love affair with a big-game hunter. An epic romance of love and loss.
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"White women writers and their African invention analyzes the cultural roles played by white women writing on or about farms in South and East Africa, focusing on Olive Schreiner and Karen Blixen and situating their work in the context of some of their contemporaries and successors, white and black, female and male."--Introduction.
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