Selected Essays of Ludvig Holberg
Author | : Ludvig Holberg |
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Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1976 |
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Author | : Ludvig Holberg |
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Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1976 |
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Author | : Ludvig baron Holberg |
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Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1955 |
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Author | : Ludvig baron Holberg |
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Total Pages | : 166 |
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Author | : Ludvig Holberg |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1976-09-21 |
Genre | : Education |
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Author | : Ludvig Holberg |
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Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Danish essays |
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Author | : Ludvig Holberg |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9004595082 |
Author | : Knud Haakonssen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2017-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 131710305X |
Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754) was the foremost representative of the Danish-Norwegian Enlightenment and also a European figure of note. He published significant works in natural law and history, but also a very important body of moral essays and epistles. He authored several engaging autobiographies and European travelogues, a major utopian novel that was an immediate European succes, interesting satires that advocated women’s education and career, and a large number of comedies. These comedies secured Holberg’s status as the most significant playwright in Scandinavia before Ibsen and Strindberg. Through his extensive oeuvre, but especially through his plays, Holberg had a decisive influence on the formation of modern Danish as a literary language, something that was a self-conscious effort on the part of a man who saw himself as an educator of the public. Despite his contemporary impact at home and abroad and his ongoing popularity in Scandinavia, he remains little known in the wider world of enlightenment studies. It is the aim of this volume to revive Holberg as a major figure from a minor corner of the Enlightenment world by presenting the full variety of his work and giving it a European context.
Author | : Ludvig Holberg |
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Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Danish essays |
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Author | : Ludvig Holberg |
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Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : Rossel |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2023-12-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 900465125X |
Ludvig Holberg is the most important man of letters in eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway and is often referred to as the father of Danish and Norwegian Literature, the Molière of the North, the founder of Scandinavian drama, or even as the first Scandinavian feminist. In all his writings - apart from being a dramatist in his own right - he excelled as a satirist, historian and essayist, Holberg is a true child of the Enlightenment advocating tolerance and moderation. At the same time, however, he transgressed its parameters. He introduced a series of classical genres but also violated their rules; he generally supported absolute monarchy but criticized its deficiencies, sometimes with subtlety, sometimes openly and relentlessly when, for instance, aiming his satire at the outdated educational system. Above all, Holberg was a towering cosmopolitan figure in eighteenth-century intellectual life, extremely well-read not only in the classics but also in contemporary literature. Furthermore, he was one of the most avid travelers of his time. He saw himself foremost as a European writer, attacking provincialism and narrow-mindedness wherever he encountered it. Holberg was strongly influenced by the European intellectual tradition and, in return also impacted literary trends abroad. This volume, written by experts from various countries, attempts to place Holberg in this international context. It highlights both the European influence on him and the influence he exerted in his own time as well as the fascination he holds to this very day because of his probing, critical mind, complex personality and, above all, because of the purely artistic quality and modernity found particularly in his immortal comedies.