Author: Weinstock, John M. & Rovinsky, Robert T., editors:
Title: The Hero in Scandinavian Literature from Peer Gynt to the Present
Description: Austin, University of Texas Press, (1975). orig.cloth.. 23x15cm. xi, 226,(16)pp, In a rubbed and frayed dustwrapper.. Frontispiece,16pp photos. Minor rubbing & bumps to spine edges,slight page-edge bump, VG. ¶ Contains 8 papers. Includes: Sverre Arestad "The Ibsen Hero"; Niels Ingwersen "Problematic Protagonists: Marie Grubbe and Niels Lyhne"; Harald Naess "Who Was Hamsun's Hero?"; Birgitta Steene "Bergman's Movement Toward Nihilism: The Antiheroic Stance in 'Secrets of Women'; 'Brink of Life'; ' The Seventh Seal'; and the Chamber Film Trilogy"; Sven Linner "The Hero in Swedish Fiction after World War II"; Lars Gustafsson "Strindberg as a Forerunner of Scandinavian Modernism"; Ingvar Holm "Strindberg & the Theater".

Keywords: Scandinavian literature, Literary criticism, Modernism, Modernist movement, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Strindberg, Ibsen