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Week 8

1. Analyze the narrative of "The Roads Round Pisa."

2. In what ways are Isak Dinesen's stories unusual for the 1930's?

3. In Blixen's "The Roads Round Pisa" what are some of the remarkable coincidences that make us think Blixen's "Artist God" is at work?

4. In Blixen's "The Dreamers" what are some of the remarkable coincidences that make us think Blixen's "Artist God" is at work?

5. How has Romanticism influenced Isak Dinesen's writing? To what extent does she differ from the Romantics?

6. How did the existentialists reinterpret "The Dreamers" as an existentialist work?

7. What does it mean to be a dreamer in "The Dreamers?"

8. What does Pellegrina have in common with the Dark Hero of Romanticism?