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Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
This annotated, international bibliography of twentieth-century criticism on the Prologue is an essential reference guide. It includes books, journal articles, and dissertations, and a descriptive list of twentieth-century editions; it is the most complete inventory of modern criticism on the Prologue.
Scandinavica
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Poul Martin Møller’s "Thoughts on the Possibility of Proofs of Human Immortality" and Other Texts
Poul Martin Møller published his most important philosophical treatise in 1837, “Thoughts on the Possibility of Proofs of Human Immortality.” This is the first English translation of this work.
Chaucer's Miller's, Reeve's, and Cook's Tales
An annotated bibliography describing editing and critical works on three of Chaucer's tales. The authors make extensive use of the standard bibliographies of English literature, medieval studies, and Chaucerian studies.
Press Releases
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Ludwig Holberg: A European Writer
Ludvig Holberg is the most important man of letters in eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway and is often referred to as the father of Danish and Norwegian Literature, the Molière of the North, the founder of Scandinavian drama, or even as the first Scandinavian feminist. In all his writings - apart from being a dramatist in his own right - he excelled as a satirist, historian and essayist, Holberg is a true child of the Enlightenment advocating tolerance and moderation. At the same time, however, he transgressed its parameters. He introduced a series of classical genres but also violated their rules; he generally supported absolute monarchy but criticized its deficiencies, sometimes with subtl...
Besindig rebel
Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754) var en rebel, der provokerede både universitet, centralmagt og præsteskab, og nok gik han, satiriker som han var, helt ud til kanten i sin udforskning af menneskenes galskab og verdens absurditet, men samtidig besindede han sig. Middelvejen forpligtede ham, han vidste, hvor truet den er. Holberg tilhørte oplysningstiden, hvis skribenter ville sprede befriende lys, men det, der også i dag gør dem vedkommende, er deres nagende tvivl om selve fornuftens styrke. Holberg viste i sine komedier, sine essays, sine biografier, sine historiske værker osv., at fornuften ikke kan styre følelserne, når det kommer til stykket. Holberg bragte menneskesindets ”sælsomme ...
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Nordic Orientalism
Nordic Orientalism explores the appropriation of Oriental imagery within Danish and Norwegian nineteenth-century nation-building. The project queries Edward Said''s binary notion of Orientalism and posits a more complex model describing how European countries on the periphery ? Denmark and Norway ? imported Oriental imagery from France to position themselves, not against their colonial Other, but in relation to central European nations. Examining Nordic Orientalism across a century in the context of modernization, urbanization and democratization the study furthermore shows how the Romanticists? naive treatment of the Orient was challenged by increased contact with the "real" Orient.
