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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. 770–781

Vitalism, oblivion, and youth in turn-of-the-century Danish literature

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Article outline
  • Culturally critical oblivion
  • Psychological and existential oblivion
  • Metaphysical-vitalistic oblivion
  • Works cited
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