"North in the World" presents 121 poems by Rolf Jacobsen (1907-1994), one of Norway's greatest modern poets. Garnering the highest praise of critics, Jacobsen won many of Norway's and Sweden's most prestigious literary awards, including the Swedish Academy's Dobloug Prize and the Grand Nordic Prize, also known as the "Little Nobel". But he also ...
Considered the father of modern Norwegian poetry, Jacobsen's work records the extraordinary changes that take place as we move from an agrarian to an industrial society. This book gathers work from all his published books. "Jacobsen is not an idylic poet, but a voice that warns against all that which threatens human joy. The poems, translated by ...
Robert Bly introduces this selected volume of poems by the celebrated Norwegian modernist. In the world explored here, smokestacks, billboards, and telephone poles dot the traditionally pastoral landscape.
This study offers a view of fabricated reality from gene technology to virtuality. It deals with plagiarisms and their cinematic-technological reality and looks at texts from literature and film covering reproduction and artificial intelligence, for example R2D2, the Terminator and Lara Croft.
Rolf Jacobsen launched poetic modernism in Norway with his first book, Earth and Iron (1933). In a career that now spans more than fifty years, he has published a body of work that has earned him international recognition and established him as one of Scandinavia's great modern poets. This book, the first extensive selection of his poetry to ...
The early films of the producer and scriptwriter Fritz Lang, such as "Metropolis", "Dr. Mabuse", and "M" have become milestones in the history of cinema because of their relentless aesthetics and visionary aims. After two years of research this extensive monograph highlights the work of this contradictory artist. The biography contains a detailed ...
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