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Title The Hero in Scandinavian literature : from Peer Gynt to the Present / edited by John M. Weinstock and Robert T. Rovinsky.

Publication Info. Austin : University of Texas Press, [1975]

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  839.5 HERO    Check Shelf
Description 226 pages ; 23 cm
Note Proceedings of a Scandinavian symposium, the 14th annual symposium sponsored by the Dept. of Germanic Languages, and held in Austin, May 1972.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The Ibsen hero / Sverre Arestad -- Problematic protagonists: Marie Grubbe and Niels Lyhne / Niels Ingwersen -- Who was Hamsun's hero? / Harald Naess -- Bergman's movement toward nihilism: the antiheroic stance in Secrets of women, Brink of life, The seventh seal, and the Chamber Film Trilogy / Birgitta Steene -- The hero in Swedish fiction after World War II / Sven Linnér -- Strindberg as a forerunner of Scandinavian modernism / Lars Gustafsson -- Strindberg and the theater / Ingvar Holm.
Subject Scandinavian literature -- History and criticism.
Heroes in literature.
Added Author Weinstock, John M., 1936- editor.
Rovinsky, Robert T., 1940- editor.
University of Texas at Austin. Department of Germanic Languages.
ISBN 0292730012
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