Isak Dinesen (1885 - 1962)

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Literary criticism and analysis

Branson, Stephanie. "Dinesen in three dimensions: A comparing of irony in two films of Dinesen's stories." Literature Film Quarterly, 2000

Brantly, Susan. "Isak Dinesen: The Danish Scheherezade." Scandinavian Review, Autumn 2002

Donalson, Linda. An account of Isak Denisen's struggles with syphlis, exerpt from Out of Isak Dinesen in Africa by Linda Donelson MD

Donalson, Linda. A review of Donelson's Out of Isak Dinesen in Africa. Reviewed by Linda Richards in January Magazine

Rashkin, Esther. "A recipe for mourning: Isak Dinesen's 'Babette's Feast.'" Style, Fall, 1995

Schuler, Jean. "Kierkegaard at Babette's Feast: The Return to the Finite." On the influence of Kierkegaard on Isak Dinesen. The Journal of Religion & Film, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1997)

Stambaugh, Sara. "Isak Dinesen in America," a talk by Professor Emeritus Sara Stambaugh, University of Alberta, 10/28/98

Wilkinson, Lynn R. "Hannah Arendt on Isak Dinesen: Between Storytelling and Theory." Comparative Literature, Winter 2004


Introductory, unsigned material, lighter reading

An introduction to the work of the author of Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen, from the Postcolonial web site at Emory

A chronology for Isak Dinesen, also a list of Isak Dinesen's works. Linda G. Donelson, at the karenblixen.com website

A biography of Isak Dinesen from the Books and Writers web site, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland

"When Isak Dinesen met Marilyn Monroe." Independent, The (London), Dec 23, 1995 by Nancy Caldwell Sorel

"Karen Blixen's Coffee Years" by Linda Rice Lorenzetti. In Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, 1999

Web site of the Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) Museum, which is housed in the original home of Karen Blixen, in Kenya

About Isak Dinesen's (Karen Blixen's) Danish home, now a museum, by Ann Wallace, from Literarytraveler.com

A short biography of Isak Dinesen from the Royal Danish Embassy (removed)

An introduction to Isak Dinesen from the Danish Literature Center (removed)


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