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Northern but not Nordic? Social Democracy in Estonia
Estonia is geographically northern, closely neighboring Scandinavia. It shares much in common with the Nordic region, including similarities in religion, culture, language, and many parts of its history. The Nordic countries ... -
From AIDS to Assimilation: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Swedish Literature
This dissertation examines representations of male homosexuality in Swedish literature from 1968-2013. Since the initial visibility of homosexuality with the coming-out of Bengt Martin on Swedish television in 1968, dominant ... -
Reading the Surface: The Danish Gothic of B.S. Ingemann, H.C. Andersen, Karen Blixen and Beyond
(2014-02-24)Despite growing ubiquitous in both the popular and academic mind in recent years, the Gothic has, perhaps not surprisingly, yet to be examined within the notoriously realism-prone literary canon of Denmark. This dissertation ... -
Man at the end of history: Henrik Ibsen's works in the light of French post-Hegelian theoretical thought
(2006)The dissertation argues that from today's point of view, Ibsen's plays can be divided into two qualitatively different groups: the first one consisting of plays that respond to particular socio-historical moments, and as ...