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Article: The New Woman and the Aesthetic Opening: Unlocking Gender in Twentieth-Century Texts.(Book review)
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- Scandinavian Studies
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- June 22, 2006
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* The New Woman and the Aesthetic Opening: Unlocking Gender in Twentieth-Century Texts. Ed. Ebba Witt-Brattstrom. Sodertorn Academic Studies 20. Huddinge: Sodertorns hogskola, 2004. Pp. xiv + 227.
The sixteen essays collected in The New Woman and the Aesthetic Opening: Unlocking Gender in Twentieth-Century Texts focus on the intersection of gender, recent literary theory, and modernist aesthetics in a variety of literary texts ranging from Ibsen's A Doll's House to the detective novels of Liza Marklund and Henning Mankell. The volume is based on a conference held at Sodertorn University College in October, 2003, which in turn was part of a research project funded ...