Icons of Danish modernity [electronic resource] : Georg Brandes and Asta Nielsen / Julie K. Allen.
2012
PT8125.B8 Z6125 2012eb
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Title
Icons of Danish modernity [electronic resource] : Georg Brandes and Asta Nielsen / Julie K. Allen.
Author
Allen, Julie K.
ISBN
9780295992204 hardcover
9780295804361 electronic book
9780295804361 electronic book
Publication Details
Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, c2012.
Language
English
Description
xii, 283 p. : ill.
Call Number
PT8125.B8 Z6125 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.09489
Summary
"Julie Allen utilizes the lives and friendship of the Danish literary critic George Brandes (1842-1927) and the silent film star Asta Nielsen (1881-1972) to explore questions of culture and national identity in early twentieth-century Denmark. Danish culture and politics were influenced in this period by the country's deeply ambivalent relationship with Germany. Brandes and Nielsen, both of whom lived and worked in Germany for significant periods of time, were seen as dangerously cosmopolitan by the Danish public, even while they served as international cultural ambassadors for the very society that rejected them during their lifetimes. Allen argues that they were the prototypical representatives of a socially liberal and culturally modern "Danishness" (Danskhed) that Denmark itself only gradually (and later) grew into. This lively study brings its central characters to life while offering an original, thought provoking analysis of the origins and permutations of Danish modernism and Danish national identity--issues that continue to be significant in today's multi-ethnic Denmark. Icons of Danish Modernity is a book about the uneasy waves that arise when celebrities take on national symbolism, and the beginnings of this formula in the early twentieth century.Julie K. Allen is associate professor of Scandinavian studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison."Allen weaves a compelling cultural analysis about national identity and its mores. The juxtaposition of the works of Georg Brandes and Asta Nielsen is highly original and Allen's contribution offers a much-needed introduction to an English reading audience of these important cultural figures." -Karin Sanders, University of California, Berkeley"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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New directions in Scandinavian studies
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Table of Contents
pt. 1. Georg Brandes
pt. 2. Asta Nielsen.
pt. 2. Asta Nielsen.