Holy witch and wanton saint: gothic precursors for Isak Dinesen's "The Dreamers".(Critical essay)

From: Scandinavian Studies | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: Rees, Ellen | Copyright information

We know that Isak Dinesen strove to create intricate intertextual puzzles in her writing. More than many other writers, she consciously engaged in an ideological dialogue with her literary predecessors by often subverting nineteenth-century patriarchal discourse, as Sara Stambaugh points out (19). Primary sources of inspiration and irritation for Dinesen include major writers such as Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, but also lesser-known figures as well.

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