Mogens and Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781605976198)

...In the decade from 1870 to 1880 a new spirit was stirring in the intellectual and literary world of Denmark. George Brandes was delivering his lectures on the Main Currents of Nineteenth Century Literature; from Norway came the deeply probing questionings of the granitic Ibsen; from across the North Sea from England echoes of the evolutionary theory and Darwinism. It was a time of controversy and bitterness, of a conflict joined between the old and the new, both going to extremes, in which nearly every one had a share. How many of the works of that period are already out-worn, and how old-fashioned the theories that were then so violently defended and attacked! Too much logic, too much contention for its own sake, one might say, and too little art...

Author: J. P. Jacobsen,Jens Peter Jacobsen
ISBN-10: 1605976199
ISBN-13: 9781605976198
Publisher: Book Jungle
Language: English
Published: 05/08/2008
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.17d