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Isak Dinesen: The Danish Scheherezade
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Review; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...MORE BLOODY THAN I," claimed Isak Dinesen. Anyone who has seen Sydney Pollack...of Baroness Karen Blixen (alias Isak Dinesen), focusing on the years she spent...The credits roll. In reality, Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) was faced with...
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Hannah Arendt on Isak Dinesen: Between Storytelling and Theory
Magazine article from: Comparative Literature; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...published in 1958. They are attributed to "Isak Dinesen," the British and American nom de plume...Yorker of Parmenia Migel's 1967 biography of Isak Dinesen (Titanic: The Biography of Isak Dinesen), which discusses her life and works in...
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Isak Dinesen: Critical Views.
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies; 6/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...the heels of Olga Pelensky's Isak Dinesen: The Life and Imagination of a...need to be used with caution. Isak Dinesen: Critical Views includes twenty...1964) and Donald Hannah's Isak Dinesen and Karen Blixen: The Mask and...
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Out of Isak Dinesen: Karen Blixen's Untold Story.
Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...The writer known to the world as Isak Dinesen created her own myth in Out of...publication of that classic memoir, the Isak Dinesen myth has grown, essentially because...tragic story. In doing so, Out of Isak Dinesen forces the reader to think about...
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The Danish Spinster and the English Rake? Isak Dinesen as the inimitable Lord Byron--a mythobiography.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...174). As the dueling, cross-dressing heroine of Isak Dinesen's "The Roads Round Pisa," Agnese della Gherardesci...Byronic poet represents an authorial fantasy dear to Isak Dinesen. As the trouser-clad Baroness, who managed her African...
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Belle of Africa Julie Harris goes one on one with Isak Dinesen
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/17/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...she portrays the Danish writer Isak Dinesen (opening Tuesday at the Colonial...Denmark, christened Karen Christenze Dinesen, and known in Africa as Baroness...her marriage) with the pseudonym Isak Dinesen when she began to write. During...
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Holy witch and wanton saint: gothic precursors for Isak Dinesen's "The Dreamers".(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; We know that Isak Dinesen strove to create intricate intertextual...sources of inspiration and irritation for Dinesen include major writers such as Soren...figures as well. A rich example of Dinesen's use of nineteenth-century sources...
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L'Heure bleue.(a blue hour; Isak Dinesen's use of blue)
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; Isak Dinesen and the Ascendant Imagination Ein blauer Augenblick ist nur mehr Seele...Kindheit" Georg Trakl IN SEVERAL OF THE stories in Winter's Tales, Isak Dinesen makes painterly use of the imaginative breadth of blue.(1) The color...
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When Isak Dinesen met Marilyn Monroe
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/23/1995; ; 529 words
; ...her health was so precarious, but Isak Dinesen was in town - New York, that is...The other was Marilyn Monroe. Dinesen mentioned this to McCullers when...disconcerting to learn that "Tanya", as Dinesen preferred being called, lived on...
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Dinesen's 'Babette's Feast.' (short story by Isak Dinesen)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Hersant, the main character in Isak Dinesen's short story "Babette's Feast...Cafe) in Pads. More important, Dinesen wrote the story in English and first...American magazine Good Housekeeping. Dinesen clearly allows the English etymology...
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Isak Dinesen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Isak Dinesen , pseud. of Baroness Karen Blixen, 1885...1937), which became a successful film. Dinesen is best known for her tales, many of...1958). Writing despite severe illness, Dinesen finished the African sketches Shadows...
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Dinesen, Isak
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Dinesen, Isak (1885–1962) Danish writer. She described her life on a Kenyan coffee plantation in Out of Africa (1937). Her collections of short stories include Seven Gothic Tales (1934), Winter's Tales (1942) and Shadows on the Grass (1960).
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Karen Dinesen Blixen-Finecke
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Karen Dinesen Blixen-Finecke Isak Dinesen was the pseudonym used by the Danish...Denmark's greatest authors. Isak Dinesen was born on April 17, 1885, the...O. Johannesson, The World of Isak Dinesen (1961), and Robert Langbaum...
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Babettes Gaestebud
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Christensen; screenplay: Gabriel Axel, from the story by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen); photography: Henning Kristiansen...dwellings, and of course the sumptuous food. Axel changed Isak Dinesen's original setting amid Norwegian fjords and mountains...
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Blixen, Karen Christentze
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Blixen, Karen Christentze, née Dinesen (1885–1962), Danish writer, who wrote mainly in English, under the name of ‘Isak Dinesen’. Her first major publication, Seven Gothic...
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