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Feminist writing has emerged in recent years as a major influence
of twentieth-century European literature. Textual Liberation, first
published in 1991, provides a timely and wide-ranging survey of
twentieth-century feminist writing in Europe, presenting texts from
a number of countries and highlighting some of the transnational
parallels and contrasts. The contributors emphasize the wider
contexts- political, social, economic- in which the texts were
produced. They cover feminist literature in Britain, Scandinavia,
Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia, France, Spain, Italy, and Turkey,
and consider a range of genres, including the novel, poetry, drama,
essays, and journalism. Each chapter contains an extensive
bibliography with special emphasis on material available in
English. A stimulating introduction to the development of European
feminist writing, Textual Liberation will be an invaluable resource
for students of women's literature, women's studies, and feminism.
Feminist writing has emerged in recent years as a major influence
of twentieth-century European literature. Textual Liberation, first
published in 1991, provides a timely and wide-ranging survey of
twentieth-century feminist writing in Europe, presenting texts from
a number of countries and highlighting some of the transnational
parallels and contrasts. The contributors emphasize the wider
contexts- political, social, economic- in which the texts were
produced. They cover feminist literature in Britain, Scandinavia,
Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia, France, Spain, Italy, and Turkey,
and consider a range of genres, including the novel, poetry, drama,
essays, and journalism. Each chapter contains an extensive
bibliography with special emphasis on material available in
English. A stimulating introduction to the development of European
feminist writing, Textual Liberation will be an invaluable resource
for students of women's literature, women's studies, and feminism.
For the first time ever, cutting-edge research about the Swedish
Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerloef and her work is made available to a
world-wide audience in one comprehensive volume. Written by an
international group of scholars, this book highlights the
interdisciplinarity of current Lagerloef research which frequently
cuts across genres, media and disciplines. The perspectives and
structure of the book, with sections dedicated to performance, film
and intermediality, transnational narratives and European
transmissions, are reinforced by the extensive introductory portal.
The authors explore themes such as Lagerloef in cultural and
political contexts, her involvement in the women's movement, the
construction of her celebrity persona, her role for early Swedish
film, the transnationality of her work and its impact in
international contexts. The volume includes a number of
illustrations that are rarely reproduced, and the detailed
bibliographical section will contribute to making this an
indispensable platform for Lagerloef scholarship for years to come.
It also offers a model for interdisciplinary research in the arts
and humanities.
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Memoirs of a Child (Paperback)
Selma Lagerloef; Translated by Sarah Death; Afterword by Sarah Death; Preface by Helena Forsas-Scott
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In this second part of her notionally autobiographical trilogy,
Selma Lagerloef broadens the perspective from the farm where she
grew up to include the people and places around Lake Fryken in her
beloved Varmland county. The personal creation myth which she began
in Marbacka continues here with a focus on the self-discipline and
imagination needed to fulfil a childhood ambition to become an
author. It is hard work that sometimes means taking a stand against
convention but also a deeply enriching process in a home steeped in
storytelling and books. The mature author reveals the roots of the
young bibliophile's growing skill in deploying fiction to
manipulate and embellish reality, producing a wryly charming,
tongue-in-cheek account that we should beware of taking at face
value.
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Anna Svard (Paperback)
Selma Lagerloef; Translated by Linda Schenck; Foreword by Helena Forsas-Scott; Afterword by Linda Schenck
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The curse on the Loewenskoeld family comes to fruition in
unexpected ways in this final volume of the Loewenskoeld cycle.
Anna Svard is also very much a novel of women's struggle toward
finding fulfillment. The Loewenskoeld Ring resonates with 'beggars
cannot be choosers' in relation to what a poor woman can expect in
life, while Charlotte Loewenskoeld moves toward women having some
choices. In Anna Svard the eponymous protagonist takes full and
impressive control of her own life and destiny. The question of
motherhood and the fates of the children with whom the characters
engage is another theme. The reader goes on to follow Charlotte,
Karl-Artur, Thea and their families, familiar from the previous
volume, through this compact novel as it moves relentlessly toward
a chilling denoument. Selma Lagerloef (1858-1940) quickly
established herself as a major author of novels and short stories,
and her work has been translated into close to 50 languages. Most
of the translations into English were made soon after the
publication of the original Swedish texts and have long been out of
date. 'Lagerloef in English' provides English-language readers with
high-quality new translations of a selection of the Nobel
Laureate's most important texts.
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Banished (Paperback)
Selma Lagerloef; Translated by Linda Schenck; Foreword by Helena Forsas-Scott
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R544
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What happens to an individual who is rejected by society? What
happens to a society that eventually realises the living are more
important than the dead, and that it is suffering a crisis of
values and priorities? What does war do to us and to our outlook on
the world? Selma Lagerloef struggled with these issues throughout
World War I and experienced a mental block in writing about them.
Then she found an opening and produced a thought-provoking tale of
love, death and survival that grapples with moral dilemmas as
relevant today as they were a century ago. Selma Lagerloef
(1858-1940) stablished herself as a major author of novels and
short stories, and her work has been translated into close to 50
languages. Most of the translations into English were made soon
after the publication of the original Swedish texts and have long
been out of date. This Norvik Press series, 'Lagerloef in English',
provides English-language readers with high-quality new
translations of a selection of the Nobel Laureate's most important
texts.
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Lord Arne's Silver (Paperback)
Selma Lagerloef; Translated by Sarah Death; Preface by Helena Forsas-Scott
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R573
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An economical and haunting tale, published in book form in 1904 and
set in the sixteenth century on the snowbound west coast of Sweden,
Lord Arne's Silver is a classic from the pen of an author
consummately skilled in the deployment of narrative power and
ambivalence. A story of robbery and murder, retribution, love and
betrayal plays out against the backdrop of the stalwart fishing
community of the archipelago. Young Elsalill, sole survivor of the
mass killing in the home of rich cleric Lord Arne, becomes a pawn
in dangerous games both earthly and supernatural. As the
deep-frozen sea stops the murderers escaping, sacrifice and
atonement are the price that has to be paid.
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Marbacka (Paperback)
Selma Lagerloef; Translated by Sarah Death; Preface by Helena Forsas-Scott
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The property of Marbacka in Varmland was where Selma Lagerloef grew
up, immersed in a tradition of storytelling. Financial difficulties
led to the loss of the house, but Lagerloef was later able to buy
it back, rebuild and make it the centre of her world. The book
Marbacka, the first part of a trilogy written in 1922-32, can be
read as many different things: memoir, fictionalised autobiography,
even part of Lagerloef's myth-making about her own successful
career as an author. It is part social and family history, part
mischievous satire in the guise of innocent, first-person child
narration, part declaration of filial love.
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A Manor House Tale (Paperback)
Selma Lagerlof; Translated by Peter Graves; Introduction by Helena Forsas-Scott
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R482
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Written in 1899, Selma Lagerlof's novella A Manor House Tale is at
one and the same time a complex psychological novel and a folk
tale, a love story and a Gothic melodrama. It crosses genre
boundaries and locates itself in a borderland between reality and
fantasy, madness and sanity, darkness and light, possession and
loss, life and death. Lagerlof's two young characters, Gunnar and
Ingrid, the one driven to madness by the horrific death of his
goats in a blizzard, the other falling into a death-like trance as
a result of the absence of familial warmth, rescue each other from
their psychological underworlds and return to an everyday world
that is now enhanced by the victory of goodness and love. Selma
Lagerlof (1858-1940) quickly established herself as a major author
of novels and short stories, and her work has been translated into
close to 50 languages. Most of the translations into English were
made soon after the publication of the original Swedish texts and
have long been out of date. This Norvik Press series, 'Lagerlof in
English', provides English-language readers with high-quality new
translations of a selection of the Nobel Laureate's most important
texts.
A curse rests on the Loewenskoeld family, as narrated in The
Loewenskoeld Ring. Charlotte Loewenskoeld is the tale of the
following generations, a story of psychological insight and social
commentary, and of the complexities of a mother-son relationship.
Charlotte is in love with Karl-Arthur - both have some Loewenskoeld
blood. Their young love is ill fated; each goes on to marry
another. How we make our life 'choices' and what evil forces can be
at play around us is beautifully and ironically depicted by Selma
Lagerloef, who was in her sixties when she wrote this tour de force
with the lightest imaginable touch.
This is the first full-length study in English of the oeuvre of
Elin Wagner - feminist, suffragist, pacifist and environmentalist -
and also the first to include texts representing a wide range of
genres. The focus on gender and community, studied in relation to
dominant and alternative discourses, shows a number of Wagner's
texts to be considerably more radical than has been observed
previously. Some of them are found to have outlined bold
alternatives to the Swedish welfare state, and the combination of
gender and environmentalism in some of the late texts anticipated
much more recent ecocritical work. The edition contains an updated
selected bibliography and preface to the second edition."
Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906-07) is
truly unique. Starting life as a commissioned school reader
designed to present the geography of Sweden to nine-year-olds, it
quickly won the international fame and popularity it still enjoys
over a century later. The story of the naughty boy who climbs on
the gander's back and is then carried the length of the country,
learning both geography and good behaviour as he goes, has
captivated adults and children alike, as well as inspiring
film-makers and illustrators. The elegance of the present
translation - the first full translation into English - is
beautifully complemented by the illustrations specially created for
the volume.
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The Phantom Carriage (Paperback)
Selma Lagerloef; Translated by Peter Graves; Preface by Helena Forsas-Scott
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'Written in 1912, Selma Lagerlof's The Phantom Carriage is a
powerful combination of ghost story and social realism, partly
played out among the slums and partly in the transitional sphere
between life and death. The vengeful and alcoholic David Holm is
led to atonement and salvation by the love of a dying Salvation
Army slum sister under the guidance of the driver of the death-cart
that gathers in the souls of the dying poor. Inspired by Charles
Dickens' Christmas Carol, The Phantom Carriage remained one of
Lagerlof's own favourites, and Victor Sjostrom's 1921 film version
of the story is one of the greatest achievements of the Swedish
silent cinema.'
This work provides a survey of women's writing in Sweden, from the
beginnings of the struggle for emancipation in the 1850s to the
present day. These writers are seen within the political, cultural
and economic context of women's lives. Modern critical currents are
also assessed and Swedish feminist criticism is considered
alongside the French and American traditions.
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The Loewenskoeld Ring (Paperback)
Selma Lagerloef; Translated by Linda Schenck; Preface by Helena Forsas-Scott
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R403
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The Loewenskoeld Ring (1925) is the first volume of the trilogy
considered to have been Selma Lagerloef's last work of prose
fiction. Set in the Swedish province of Varmland in the eighteenth
century, the narrative traces the consequences of the theft of
General Loewenskoeld's ring from his coffin, and develops into a
disturbing tale of revenge from beyond the grave. It is also a tale
about decisive women. The narrative twists and the foregrounding of
alternative interpretations confront the reader with a pervasive
sense of ambiguity. Along with the narrative technique, the spell
of the ring extends into the two subsequent volumes, Charlotte
Loewenskoeld (1925) and Anna Svard (1928).
This work provides a survey of women's writing in Sweden, from the
beginnings of the struggle for emancipation in the 1850s to the
present day. These writers are seen within the political, cultural
and economic context of women's lives. Modern critical currents are
also assessed and Swedish feminist criticism is considered
alongside the French and American traditions.
Feminist writing has emerged in recent years as a major influence
in 20th century European literature. Second-wave feminism has not
only inspired new generations of women writers but has also
stimulated an interest in women's writing from the past. "Textual
Liberation" provides a wide-ranging survey of 20th century feminist
writing in Europe, presenting texts from a number of countries and
highlighting some of the transnational parallels and contrasts. The
contributors emphasize the wider context - political, social,
economic - in which the texts were produced. They cover feminist
literature in Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, Eastern Europe,
Russia, France, Spain, Italy and Turkey, and consider a range of
genres, including the novel, poetry, drama, essays, and journalism.
Each chapter contains an extensive bibliography with special
emphasis on material available in English.
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