Masterpieces of Scandinavian Literature

Literature in Translation 274/Scandinavian Studies 374
Spring 2008

Jan	22	Introduction
	24	Modern Breakthrough vs Modernism [S] August Strindberg, "Bad luck" (1884) [S] Pär Lagerkvist, "Love and Death" (1924)	ER
	29	[S] Hjalmar Söderberg, Doctor Glas (1905)	book
	31	" "
Feb	5	[N] Knut Hamsun, Hunger (1890)	book
	7	" "
	12	[S] August Strindberg, A Dream Play (1901)	book
	14	" "
	19	[F-S] Edith Södergran, Elmer Diktonius Selected Poems	ER
	21	[S] Pär Lagerkvist, The Secret of Heaven (1919)	ER
	26	FIRST EXAMINATION
	28	[S] Ivar Lo-Johansson, "Kiss My Hand Slave!" (1936) [S] Moa Martinson, "Mother's Baths" (1933)	ER
March	4	[N] Cora Sandel, "Larsen's" and "Shit-Katrine" (1927)	ER
	6	[D] Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), "The Dreamers" (1934)	SGT
	11	Dinesen, "Roads Round Pisa" (1934)	SGT
	13	Reading Day
		SPRING RECESS
	25	[D] Martin A. Hansen, "The Gardener the Beast and the Child" and "The Soldier and the Girl."	ER
	27	[S] Pär Lagerkvist, The Dwarf (1944)	book
April	1	" "
	3	[S] Ingmar Bergman, Wild Strawberries (1957)	film
	8	" "
	10	SECOND EXAMINATION
	15	Postmodernism
	17	[N] Bjørg Vik, "The Entryways" (1972) and "The Breakup" (1979) [N] Gerd Brantenberg, Excerpts from Egalia's Daughters (1979)	ER
	22	[S] P.C. Jersild, A Living Soul (1980)	book
	24	" "
	29	[D] Dorrit Willumsen, "The Wax Doll" (1978) [N] Herbjørg Wassmo, "How Close is Close Enough?" [D] Erik Knudsen, "TV News"	ER
May	1	[D] Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow (1993)	book
	6	" "
	8	THIRD EXAMINATION

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