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* Tone Selboe. Kunst og erfaring: En studie i Karen Blivens forfatterkap. Odense: Odense Universitetsforlag, 1996. Pp. 181.
Karen Blixen's texts offer a rich field of inquiry for scholars interested in questions of interpretation. Tone Selboe's dissertation rises to this challenge. As she herself notes in her introduction, her study "combines a hermeneutic perspective with a thematic and rhetorical reading," and its aim is to "investigate which meaning is created in the text and how it is created." Thus she applies a variety of critical approaches-ranging from Hans-Georg Gadamer through Walter Benjamin to Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida-to selected texts by the Danish writer. Selboe chose these texts, she tells us, because they interested her or because they have been relatively neglected by literary criticism.
Selboe's point of departure is the provocative "Sorg-Agre"...