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Monday November 21, 2011 at 12:30 PM
Visiting Lecture on Gender and Sacrifice in Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen's "Babette's Feast" and "Ehrengard"

Is Dinesen to Christianity what Salman Rushdie is to Islam? This talk will explore themes of intertextuality, blasphemy and subversive repetitions in Dinesen’s late work.

Dag Heede is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark. He has undertaken a megalomanic project of queering the canon of Danish Literature. The result so far has been an introduction to Michel Foucault and monographies on Karen Blixen, Herman Bang and Hans Christian Andersen.

Please join the Masterpieces of Scandinavian Literature course in Communications Hall, Room 326 for a guest lecture.

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