Critic Sara Stambaugh
writes that many of the stories in [this volume] are formulated so cryptically as to be opaque without the help offered by the later work.
Stambaugh, Sara. The Witch and the Goddess in the Stories of Isak Dinesen. UMI Research Press, 1988.
When this, like ID
's first book, became a Book-of-the-Month Club
choice, she felt it would cheapen the recognition awarded the earlier work—showing that she misinterpreted this commercial honour as a purely critical one.
Thurman, Judith. Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen. Penguin, 1984.
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politics
Isak Dinesen
ID
attended a Women's Rights Congress in 1953 and delivered a speech that some have seen as antifeminist, but which Sara Stambaugh
, following Danish critics Marianne Juhl
and Bo Hakon Jørgensen
, reads as...
Textual Features
Isak Dinesen
In this spare, beautifully written, and highly selective account,
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
ID
presents herself as a modern European who sees in the life of primitive peoples interacting with the soil, vegetation, animals and weather around them the...
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Stambaugh, Sara. The Witch and the Goddess in the Stories of Isak Dinesen. UMI Research Press, 1988.