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An Index to the Authorship of the More Noted Works in Ancient and Modern Literature
Humorous Wit is a new compilation of quotations in their most humoristic form. There are over 15,000 of these taken from various parts of the world, w...
From Mythology to Space Research
In Nordic literature a remarkable discussion of the northern light appears in Kongespeilet (The King's Mirror) a thirteenth-century Norwegian chronicl...
Essays in Honor of Joshua A. Fishman's Sixty-Fifth Birthday
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Study of Iceland's Nobel prize-winning novelist and his works....
Facts and Fictions
This book explores 11 popular misconceptions about the Vikings. Each chapter looks at a particular misconception, examines how it became popular, disc...
An International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages
Annotation This handbook is conceived as a comprehensive history of the North Germanic languages from the oldest times up to the present day. Whereas ...
Volume 1: Notions of Literature Across Cultures. Volume 2: Literary Genres: An Intercultural Approach. Volume 3+4: Literary Interactions in the Modern World 1+2
Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective is a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). Initiated in 1996 and ...
Towards a Global Perspective
First book in English devoted to Johannes Schlaf, the 19th-century German playwright, bringing fresh insights to the whole movement of German naturali...
Loose Papers, 1830-1843
For over a century, the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55) has been at the center of a number of important discussions, concerning not only...
Offprints of All the New Material from the 12-volume Revised Edition of Masterplots
The present volume features articles that employ source-work research in order to explore the individual Danish sources of Kierkegaard's thought. The ...
An Annotated Catalogue
This book challenges earlier understandings of early modern dissertations as unimaginative academic exercises. It argues for their continuous importan...
Journals AA-DD
I would like to write a novel in which the main character would be a man who got a pair of glasses, one lens of which reduced images as powerfully as ...
A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge
The period of Kierkegaard's life corresponds to Denmark's "Golden Age," which is conventionally used to refer to the period covering roughly the first...
From the Vikings to Social Democracy
In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queen...
A Documentary Conspectus from Contemporary Periodicals
The Heiberg Period: 1824-1836, 2nd Revised and Augmented Edition
This is the first of a three-volume work dedicated to exploring the influence of G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophical thinking in Golden Age Denmark. The wo...
2010 Plot Stories & Essay Reviews from the World's Fine Literature
The Eighteenth Century in Germany and the Nineteenth Century in Europe and the United States of America
This comprehensive history of classical learning from the sixth century BCE to 1900 was first published between 1903 and 1908....
Development, Influence and National Identity
This book examines Norwegian education throughout the course of the 19th century, and discusses its development in light of broader transnational impu...
A Bibliographical List
Short Studies in the Mythology of America, Great Britain, the Norse Countries, Germany, India, Syria, Egypt, and Persia
Selected Writings on Theory and Method
A. B. Marx was one of the most important German music theorists of his time. Drawing on idealist aesthetics and the ideology of Bildung, he developed ...
A Cumulative Author List Representing Library of Congress Printed Cards and Titles Reported by Other American Libraries
Strongly influencing European musical life from the 1880s through the First World War and remaining highly productive into the 1940s, Richard Strauss ...