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Kirstine Marie Kastbjerg
SCAND 490
Seattle Campus
Special topics in Scandinavian art, literature, culture, and history. Course offerings based on instructor's specialty and student demand.
Class description
While Scandinavian literature is primarily known for its realism, there is also a strong countermovement that explores the fantastic, the Gothic, the supernatural, magic realism, the strange and the absurd. In Scand 490 we will investigate those genres as they are conceptualized by such writers as Hans Christian Andersen, Isak Dinesen, Villy Sørensen, Peter Høeg, Asbjørnsen & Moe, Jonas Lie, Knut Hamsun, Selma Lagerlöf, Maria Gripe and John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the right one in). Scandinavian short stories and novels in translation will be supplemented by theoretical essays and short texts by Poe, Hoffmann, Faulkner, Kafka, et al. in order to place Scandinavian anti-realism firmly within the world canon.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
Recommended preparation
No language prerequisites
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