Danish literature: References & Edit History
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Surveys of Danish literature include P.M. Mitchell, A History of Danish Literature, 2nd augmented ed. (1971); Poul Borum, Danish Literature: A Short Critical Survey (1979); Sven H. Rossel (ed.), A History of Danish Literature (1992); and Marianne Stecher-Hansen (ed.), Twentieth-Century Danish Writers (1999). Critical studies of Danish literature include Bodil Wamberg (ed.), Out of Denmark: Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen, 1885–1985 (1985), and Danish Women Writers Today (1985).
Anthologies of Danish literature include Elias Bredsdorff (ed.), Contemporary Danish Plays (1955, reissued 1970), and Contemporary Danish Prose (1958, reprinted 1974); F.J. Billeskov Jansen and P.M. Mitchell (compilers), Anthology of Danish Literature (1972), in Danish and English; Line Jensen et al. (eds.), Contemporary Danish Poetry: An Anthology (1977); P.M. Mitchell and Kenneth H. Ober (trans. and eds.), The Royal Guest, and Other Classical Danish Narrative (1977); Annegret Heitmann (ed.), No Man’s Land: An Anthology of Modern Danish Women’s Literature (1987); and Hans Christian Andersen (compiler), New Danish Plays (1996).
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Add new Web site: Academia - A History of Danish Literature. | Oct 02, 2016 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Aug 05, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |