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Herman Bang was well known in his lifetime, but in the English-speaking world he has had little impact. Even now, only a couple of his novels have been translated. This volume is an attempt to remedy this lack by introducing a broad selection of his short stories and journalism to a new public.

?Bjorneboe (1920-76), controversial Norwegian poet, dramatist, essayist, (anti-) novelist, and lifelong rebel, saw authority as always and everywhere repressive. His rebellion shocked his contemporaries, and it increased with his obsession over mankind's inhumanity, whose cruelty he saw as expressing an innate, divinely initiated evil. Garton, lecturer at East Anglia, prefaces a chronology covering Bjorneboe's life to chapters on his career, e...

Covers Norwegian women's writing over the last 150 years, setting literary developments against the background of the emergence and growth of the women's movement in Norway. Garton's other publications include "Writers and Politics in Modern Scandanavia" and "Jens Bjorneboe: Prophet without Honor".

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A collection of essays about Nordic literature, focusing on periods of transition. Authors studied in detail include August Strindberg, Knut Hamsun and Kerstin Ekman. The volume is multilingual and includes essays in English, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.