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In:Nordic Literature: A comparative history: Volume II: Figural nodes
Edited by Steven P. Sondrup, Mark B. Sandberg, Nathaniel Kramer, Christopher Oscarson, Linda Haverty Rugg and Karin Sanders
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages 38] 2026
► pp. 91–104

Imaginary Edens and Inner Hells

Anxiety and the imaginary in Danish literature

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Article outline
  • Johannes Ewald: Adam and Eve
  • H. C. Andersen: “The Dryad”
  • Karen Blixen: “Sorrow-Acre” and “Peter and Rosa”
  • Per Højholt: The sea complete, far out
  • Notes
  • Works cited
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