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Re-mapping Lagerlöf : performance, intermediality and European transmissions / edited by Helena Forsås-Scott, Lisbeth Stenberg and Bjarne Thorup Thomsen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lund : Nordic Academic Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789187675263
  • 9187675269
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PT9771 .R463 2014
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Contents:
II. Readers, performance, constructions. 4. Sectional portal ; 5. The reader in history and letters to the author ; The case of Selma Lagerlöf and her audience ; 6. Mårbacka: Larders, cow-houses, and other spiritual matters ; 7. In the eyes of the beholder ; Du coté de chez Selma Lagerlöf -- III. Intermediality and film. 8. Sectional portal ; 9. Selma Lagerlöf in the golden age of Swedish silent cinema ; 10. Jerusalem, Sons of Ingmar, and the transparent thickness of the cinematic view ; 11. 'Nothing about art is innocent' ; Reading Edelfelt and Stiller ; 12. The Phantom Carriage and the concept of melodrama ; 13. Nils Holgersson and a Japanese animated series -- IV. (Trans)national narratives and European transmissions. 14. Sectional portal ; 15. Text and transnational terrain, 1888-1918 ; 16. The many facets of a diamond ; Space, change and identity in Selma Lagerlöf's The Miracles of Antichrist ; 17. Gender, war, and canon: Selma Lagerlöf and Sara Wacklin ; 18. Violence and the uncanny in Selma Lagerlöf's 'Gammal fäbodsägen' ; 19. Selma Lagerlöf's story in Czech ; 20. Nils in the Netherlands ; Selma Lagerlöf in Dutch and Frisian, 1911-1921 ; 21. Journeys into English ; An overview of the English-language versions of Nils Holgersson and anglophone academic discourse ; 22. 'Dear Selma'-'Dear Velma' ; Velma Swanston Howard's letters to Selma Lagerlöf ; 23. Selma Lagerlöf in Nazi Germany ; Not banned, not forgotten: Lord Arne's Silver as a Nazi Frontbuch -- Bibliography -- Illustrations -- Contributors.
Subject: This innovative volume presents, for the first time ever, cutting-edge research about the Swedish Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) in one comprehensive resource. Written by scholars from a range of countries, it highlights the interdisciplinarity of current Lagerlöf research and the latest trends in it, frequently cutting across genres, media, and disciplines. The structure of the book-with dedicated sections to performance, film, and intermediality; transnational narratives; and European transmission-is reinforced by the extensive introductory portal. The volume includes a range of i.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Preface. I. Introduction. 1. Re-mapping Lagerlöf ; The volume and its parameters ; 2. Selma Lagerlöf in context ; 3. A star in a constellation ; The international women's movement as a context for reading the works of Selma Lagerlöf -- II. Readers, performance, constructions. 4. Sectional portal ; 5. The reader in history and letters to the author ; The case of Selma Lagerlöf and her audience ; 6. Mårbacka: Larders, cow-houses, and other spiritual matters ; 7. In the eyes of the beholder ; Du coté de chez Selma Lagerlöf -- III. Intermediality and film. 8. Sectional portal ; 9. Selma Lagerlöf in the golden age of Swedish silent cinema ; 10. Jerusalem, Sons of Ingmar, and the transparent thickness of the cinematic view ; 11. 'Nothing about art is innocent' ; Reading Edelfelt and Stiller ; 12. The Phantom Carriage and the concept of melodrama ; 13. Nils Holgersson and a Japanese animated series -- IV. (Trans)national narratives and European transmissions. 14. Sectional portal ; 15. Text and transnational terrain, 1888-1918 ; 16. The many facets of a diamond ; Space, change and identity in Selma Lagerlöf's The Miracles of Antichrist ; 17. Gender, war, and canon: Selma Lagerlöf and Sara Wacklin ; 18. Violence and the uncanny in Selma Lagerlöf's 'Gammal fäbodsägen' ; 19. Selma Lagerlöf's story in Czech ; 20. Nils in the Netherlands ; Selma Lagerlöf in Dutch and Frisian, 1911-1921 ; 21. Journeys into English ; An overview of the English-language versions of Nils Holgersson and anglophone academic discourse ; 22. 'Dear Selma'-'Dear Velma' ; Velma Swanston Howard's letters to Selma Lagerlöf ; 23. Selma Lagerlöf in Nazi Germany ; Not banned, not forgotten: Lord Arne's Silver as a Nazi Frontbuch -- Bibliography -- Illustrations -- Contributors.

This innovative volume presents, for the first time ever, cutting-edge research about the Swedish Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) in one comprehensive resource. Written by scholars from a range of countries, it highlights the interdisciplinarity of current Lagerlöf research and the latest trends in it, frequently cutting across genres, media, and disciplines. The structure of the book-with dedicated sections to performance, film, and intermediality; transnational narratives; and European transmission-is reinforced by the extensive introductory portal. The volume includes a range of i.

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