Sigrid Undset

Undset, Sigrid - sĭˈgrĭd oonˈsĕt, 1882–1949, Norwegian novelist. Poverty forced Undset to do secretarial work for a time (1898–1908). Her early novels of contemporary life, among them Jenny (1911; tr. 1921, new tr. 2001), were frank and realistic works in which she described women's struggles for selfhood in a male-dominated society but nonetheless Read More...

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Christianity and Culture ("Amid the Encircling Gloom" by Sigrid Undset begins on p. 130)
by J. Stanley Murphy. 198 pgs.

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Foreword

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Introduction

On Christian Culture

Ploughing a Lone Furrow

Toynbee and Dawson on the Meaning of Contemporary History

Two Worlds

The Natural Law and Human Rights

Jacques Maritain: A Prophet for Our Time

Intellectual Curiosity in Catholic Schools

The Indispensable Foundation of Intellectual Culture

Obstacles to Life of Mind and Spirit

Modern Phychology and Moral Values

The Nature of Science and the Nature of Man

Religious Wisdom and Scientific Knowledge

The Grounds of Peace

Amid the Encircling Gloom

Men and Symbols

Art and Faith

The Book as Book

Hilaire Belloc

New Media and the New Education

The Meaning of Mass Production
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Six Scandinavian Novelists: Lie, Jacobsen, Heidenstam, Selma Lagerlof, Hamsun, Sigrid Undset ("Christian Ethics in a Pagan World: Sigrid Unset" begins on p. 286)
by Alrik Gustafson. 374 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

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By Way of Introduction

Impressionistic Realism Jonas Lie

Toward Decadence Jens Peter Jacobsen

Nationalism Reinterpreted Verner Von Heidenstam

Saga and Legend of a Province Selma LagerlÖf

Man and the Soil Knut Hamsun

Christian Ethics in a Pagan World

Index

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A History of Norwegian Literature ("The Epic Novelists: Undset, Dunn, Uppdal, Falkberget" begins on p. 210)
by Harald S. Naess. 440 pgs.

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"An excellent comprehensive one-volume introduction in English to Norwegian literature within its historical context."-ChoiceLong under the cultural domination of Denmark and the political hegemony of Sweden, Norway first defined itself through its literature and continues to do so to our day. A History of Norwegian Literature reviews the complex role literature has played in Norway since runic times. Beginning with rock carvings five millennia old, Norwegian literature first came to flower with the Norse poets of the ninth century, who chronicled the heroism of Viking explorers and conquerers.The authors describe the subsequent progression of Norwegian literature through the middle ages and the baroque to Ludvig Holberg and the age of enlightenment, and from thence to the cultural debates of the nineteenth century, the dramas of Ibsen, the psychological novels of Sigurd Hoel, the modernist poetry of the 1950s and 1960s, and the postmodernism of the present. The works of Nobel Prize winners Sigrid Undset, Knut Hamsun, and Bjornstjerne Bjornson are covered in some detail, and separate chapters are devoted to children's literature and women writers in Norwegian literature.Like other volumes in A History of Scandinavian Literatures; A History of Norwegian Literature views the literature of Norway not only as part of an interrelated Scandinavian tradition but as part of world literature. A comparative approach is used throughout, and social and cultural history feature prominently. Contributors to Volume 2 include leading scholars James E. Knirk, Kathleen Stokker, Harald Naess, James McFarlane, William Mishler, Jan I. Sjåvik, Margaret O'Leary, and Faith Ingwersen.Harold S. Naess is Torger Thompson Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Among his other works are Knut Hamsun og America (1969) and an edition of Knut Hamsun: Selected Letters (with James McFarlane, 1990).

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Preface

Introduction

1: Old Norwegian Literature

2: Oral Tradition, Humanism, And the Baroque

3: Holberg and the Age Of Enlightenment

4: Norwegian Literature 1800-1860

5: Norwegian Literature 1860-1910

6: Norwegian Literature 1910-1950

7: Norwegian Literature Since 1950

8: Norwegian Children's Literature

Bibliography

The Contributors

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A History of Norwegian Literature ("Sigrid Undset" begins on p. 304)
by Harald Beyer. 376 pgs.

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Norway and Her Literature

From Antiquity to the Vikings

The Poetic Edda

Poetry of the Skalds

The Sagas

Foreign Culture and Norse Tradition

Ballads and Folk Tales

Reformation and Humanism

Petter Dass and the Baroque Age

Ludvig Holberg

Holberg's Successors

A Young State and an Old Kingdom

The Age of Wergeland

Discovery of a National Culture

Dreams and Reality

From National to World Literature

Ibsen's Early Plays

The Young Bjørnson

Realism Comes to Literature

Ibsen's Social and Psychological Plays

Bjørnson and the Problems of Realism

Novelists of Realism

The Neoromantic Reaction

Critics and Storytellers

Hamsun and Kinck

Regional Writing

The New Realism

Sigrid Undset

Olav Duun

New Trends Between the Wars

Additional Readings

On Pronouncing Norwegian Names

Index of Names

Index of Tides

COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS THE AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION
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105 Greatest Living Authors Present the World's Best Stories, Humor, Drama, Biography, History, Essays, Poetry (1950) ("Sigrid Undset" begins on p. 841)
by Whit Burnett. 1186 pgs.

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A Foreword in the Form of a Report

I The Americas

Eugene O'Neill

Ernest Hemingway

Sinclair Lewis

Robert Frost

John Steinbeck

Carl Sandburg

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Thornton Wilder

John Dewey

John Dos Passos

Pearl Buck

Van Wyck Brooks

H. L. Mencken

William Faulkner

Maxwell Anderson

Edgar Lee Masters

Archibald Macleish

Upton Sinclair

Robert Sherwood

John Gunther

William Rose Benét

Carl Van Doren

Erskine Caldwell

Robinson Jeffers

James Thurber

James Branch Cabell

John P. Marquand

Vincent Sheean

William L. Shirer

Mazo De La Roche

Mariano Azuela

Gabriela Mistral

Pablo Neruda

Eduardo Mallea

II The British Isles

T. S. Eliot

Aldous Huxley

W. Somerset Maugham

John Masefield

E. M. Forster

Bertrand Russell

Walter De La Mare

V. Sackville-West

Hilaire Belloc

W. H. Auden

Julian Huxley

Noel Coward

Siegfried Sassoon

J. B. Priestley

Winston Churchill

C. E. M. Joad

Graham Greene

Arnold J. Toynbee

A. J. Cronin

Lord Dunsany

Sean O'Casey

Padraic Colum

Elizabeth Bowen

Liam O'Flaherty

III Europe

André Gide

Jules Romains

André Maurois

André Malraux

Jacques Maritain

François Mauriac

Jean Cocteau

Paul Claudel

Jean-Paul Sartre

St. John Perse

Albert Camus

Colette

Louis Aragon

Thomas Mann

Erich Remarque

Albert Schweitzer

Albert Einstein

Hermann Hesse

Sigrid Undset

Knut Hamsun

Isak Dinesen

Johannes V. Jensen

Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Halldór Laxness

Benedetto Croce

Ignazio Silone

Geroge Santayana

José Ortega Y Gasset

Salvador De Madariaga

Pio Baroja

Pierre Van Paassen

Angelos Sikelianos

Arthur Koestler

Ferenc Molnár

Ivan Bunin

Mikhail Sholokhov

Ilya Ehrenburg

IV Asia China • 1059 India • 1078

Lin Yutang

Hu Shih

Jawaharlal Nehru

Sri Aurobindo

Biographies and Bibliographies

Acknowledgments

Index of Authors
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Writers and Writing (1946) ("Sigrid Undset Speaks of Writing and War" begins on p. 108)
by Robert Van Gelder. 388 pgs.

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Notes on the Literary Life

Mencken on Literature And Politics

Writing Contemporary History

Pearl Buck Talks of Her Work

That Daring Young Man, William Saroyan

A Talk with Erskine Caldwell

Marquand Unburdens Himself

Katherine Anne Porter At Work

BenÉt's Work in Progress

Asch Returns from the Past

Thurber's Life and Hard Times

Thomas Mann in Princeton

John O'Hara, Who Talks Like His Stories

The Road Up for Jesse Stuart

Van Wyck Mason's Way of Work

Ben Appel of Hell's Kitchen

James Warner Bellah On Writing for Money

William Allen White Talks Of Writing and Reading

Sinclair Lewis Talks Of Writing--And Acting

Writing Biography and History

The Future of Writing in A World at War

Professor Lancelot Hogben, An "Author in Flight"

Ernest Hemingway Talks Of Work and War

James Norman Hall Talks About Writing and Idling

Jan Struther, Who Created Mrs. Miniver

This Business of Writing For the Movies

Sigrid Undset Speaks Of Writing and War

Gene Fowler Tells of His Writing Plans

Thomas Wolfe as Friends Remember Him

Van Wyck Brooks on Confident Writing

Mr. Lion Feuchtwanger Talks Of His Work

H. G. Wells Discusses Himself And His Work

Some Difficulties Confronting The Satirist

Stuart Cloete Discusses His Work Methods: He Turned To Writing After Fifteen Years Of Ranching When He Decided There Was Just So Much You Could Do for Cows

Mr. Maugham on the Essentials Of Writing: the Author of "Of Human Bondage" Has Temporarily Quit Fiction

An Interview with Bruce Lancaster

An Interview with Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Curious Retirement Of Mr. Hergesheimer

Louis Adamic on His New Series Of Books

Josephine Lawrence Talks Of Her Work

A Talk with the Author Of "Out of the Night"

An Interview with Theodore Dreiser

An Interview with Mr. Arthur Train

An Interview with Mr. Robert Nathan

A Talk with Clarence Budington Kelland.

A Talk with the Surprised Sally Benson

An Interview with Gelett Burgess

An Interview with Hervey Allen

An Interview with Kay Boyle, Expatriate

An Interview with Budd Schulberg

An Interview with Rex Beach

An Interview with H. Allen Smith

An Interview with Mr. And Mrs. Pinkerton

An Interview with Margaret Leech

An Interview with Rex Stout

An Interview with Charles Morgan

The Author of "A Thousand Shall Fall"

John Gunther, Who Wrote "Inside Europen"

Irvin S. Cobb Discusses His Writing

An Interview with John Dos Passos

A Talk with Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

An Interview with George R. Stewart

An Interview with Irving Bacheller

An Interview with George Jean Nathan

An Interview with Edgar Lee Masters

An Interview with Elliot Paul

An Interview with Louis Bromfield

An Interview with Eric Knight

An Interview with Grace Zaring Stone

An Interview with James T. Farrell

An Interview with Carl Sandburg

An Interview with Eudora Welty

An Interview with Esther Forbes

An Interview with Katharine Brush

An Interview with Lloyd C. Douglas

Miss Macinnes on the Pleasvres of Writing

An Interview with E. B. White, Essayist

An Interview with Faith Baldwin

An Interview with James Street

An Interview with Ellen Glasgow

The Story Behind "They Were Expendable"

Nancy Hale . . . an Analyzer Of the Feminine

An Interview with Christopher Morley

An Interview with Ben Ames Williams

An Interview with Marcia Davenport

An Interview with Bernard De Voto

Three Young Writers in Uniform Report from the Fronts

An Interview with Edna Ferber

An Interview with Carlos P. Romulo

Samuel Hopkins Adams Discusses A Long Writing Career

An Interview With Erich Maria Remarque
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Dreaming of the Medieval in Kristin Lavransdatter and Trollsyn, in Scandinavian Studies
by Ellen Rees. 18 pgs.

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The Unknown Sigrid Undset: Jenny and Other Works
by Tim Pace, Tiina Nunnally, Sigrid Undset. 406 pgs.

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This new translation of a collection by one of Norway's bestselling literary figures, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1928, includes the novel "Jenny", the story of a disenchanted painter; two short stories; and an assortment of letters written between 1900 and 1922.

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The Unknown Sicrid Undset

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Jenny

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Willa Cather's New York: New Essays on Cather in the City (Meeting in New York: Willa Cather and Sigrid Undset Begins on p. 223)
by Merrill Maguire Skaggs. 318 pgs.

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List of Illustrations

Preface

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Part I: Geographical City and Home Town from Cornfield to the Big Apple Orchard

Part II: Art Capital of the World Morality and the Naked Lady

Part III: City Contacts and Literary Connections Throw out the Furniture, Rip out the Curtains

Part IV: Urban Perspectives Sapphira and the City Ann Romines

List of Contributors

Index

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