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	The African God of Isak Dinesen - The World and I Magazine
		Consonant with her other comments, Dinesen is contending that the distinction between God and the Devil as separate persons (or personalities) is a work of human imagination, an abstraction away from the reality of god and the Devil as an antinomy or union of opposites.
		As Dinesen has one of her fictional characters think elsewhere, "The real difference between God and human beings… is that God cannot stand continuance." God pronounces his word not just once, but many times, and his utterances are not necessarily consistent with one another.
		Dinesen's attitude to conflict means that both her admonition to love "the pride of you neighbor as your own" and her personal declaration "I will love the pride of my adversaries" are radical statements differing markedly from Christ's "Love your neighbor as yourself".
	www.worldandi.com /public/1989/november/mt3.cfm (7302 words)

	Isak Dinesen in America
		Karen Dinesen, in contrast, was born in 1885.
		Dinesen also met a young man less famous than those I've mentioned but important to the future life of Isak Dinesen in America after Karen Blixen had died and been buried in Denmark three-and-a-half years later, on September 11, 1962.
		A serious study by so respected a scholar as Robert Langbaum went far to establish Isak Dinesen as an important literary artist not to be taken lightly on the basis of her popular appeal, which she shared, after all, with Charles Dickens.
	www.ualberta.ca /~cins/lectures/isak_dinesen.htm (5228 words)

	Scandinavian Review: Isak Dinesen: The Danish Scheherezade
		In reality, Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) was faced with the prospect of returning in disgrace to Denmark and moving back in with her mother at the age of 46.
		Dinesen was Karen Blixen's maiden name, and Isak is Hebrew for "laughter." In the Old Testament, Abraham's wife Sarah gives birth to her son at a rather advanced age and thus names her son Isaac as an indication of the joy she feels.
		Dinesen was able to start a second career as a world-class author at the mature age of 49, giving legions of late bloomers hope.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3760/is_200210/ai_n9130191 (1424 words)

	Dinesen, Isak on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Dinesen is best known for her tales, many of which have eerie, supernatural elements.
		Dinesen's 'Babette's Feast.' (short story by Isak Dinesen)
		The Fundamentals of Feminism: Teller and Tale in dinesen's "The Blank Page".(Literatura)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/d/dinesen.asp (378 words)

	Isak Dinesen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Isak Dinesen (April 17, 1885 - September 7, 1962) was a pen name for the Danish author Karen Blixen.
		She had suffered for many years from syphilis contracted from her husband.
		RECSY Library by Isak Jonsson and Bo Kågström for solving triangular Sylvester-type matrix equations.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Isak_Dinesen.html (324 words)

	Isak Dinesen and Narrativity: Reassessments for the 1990s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The excerpt from 'Oration at a Bonfire, Fourteen Years Later' with which Isak Dinesen and Narrativity begins serves as a frame for this collection of essays and points to the insistent preoccupation with gender and the silencing of women in several of the essays.
		Granted that (as Susan Aiken Hardy points out) Dinesen is 'a pop icon, the subject of fascinated speculation, fashionable imitation and culinary fabrication,' the notion that the author is a minor figure given to nostalgic imaginings is simplistic and inaccurate.
		When we are told, for instance, that an 'apparently unproblematic ontological relationship remains bedeviled by the onomastic sex-change [Dinesen] achieved and by the resultant violence which such impersonation imposed on the expectations and ideological presuppositions entertained by her readers,' we begin to wonder if the analysis clarifies or obfuscates the text.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/661/661_review_kanaganayakam.html (780 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: An Isak Dinesen Feast: A Performance Anthology, with Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This is a nice introduction for those familiar with Isak Dinesen's work (yes, there probably are some) and those who want to revisit and go beyond her best-known work, Out of Africa, read superbly here by Julie Harris.
		Dinesen was the pen name of Danish Countess Karen Blixen, who spent part of her life on a coffee plantation near Nairobi, Kenya.
		While Dinesen's Africa has changed much in the time since she wrote, her insights are surprisingly timely, and her love of the land and struggles to make a living from it are timeless and ring true for anyone who lives on the land.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1572700297 (539 words)

	Isak Dinesen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In her own words Isak Dinesen gives you a peak into life on her beloved farm.
		Dinesen reminds me of the sudden twists in Borges or Edith Wharton's short st...
		Baron Bror Blixen was so noted for the admiration he excited in women, that his hunting clients were only half jokingly advised to write in their contracts that he refrain from seducing their wives.
	www.freeglossary.com /Isak_Dinesen (794 words)

	Isak Dinesen : The Life of a Storyteller Adventure Travel Ideas, Gear, Books, Tickets at eKibo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Until the appearance of this book, the life and art of Isak Dinesen have been--as Dinesen herself wrote of two lovers in a tale--"a pair of locked caskets, each containing the key to the other." Judith Thurman has provided the master key to them both.
		She does an excellent job of portraying the character of Dinesen, the complex aristocratic independent mind, the romantic nature, the connection with a fairytale world of storytelling, the great courage and determination in making herself into a story when all appeared lost in her life.
		Thurman tells of Dinesen's childhood, her special connection with her father, the division between two families one wealthy mercantile, and the other more wild and adventurous.
	www.ekibo.com /cgi-bin/apf4/apf.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0312135254&templates=default (562 words)

	Blixen
		Karen Blixen's complicated life and work continue to be studied, debated, and questioned in light of both the colonial society she inhabited and the modern reality of a postcolonial world.
		Her father, Wilhelm Dinesen, fought in the Prusso-Danish war in 1864, and later lived in the United States for two years amongst Native American tribes.
		In 1914, Karen Dinesen married her Swedish cousin Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke and moved to Kenya with him to start a coffee farm in the Ngong Hills.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Blixen.html (1724 words)

	Isak Dinesen \| AUTHOR CATALOG
		Isak Dinesen is the pseudonym of Karen Blixen, born in Denmark in 1885.
		Last Tales is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Isak Dinesen wrote before her death in 1962.
		With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya.
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=7105 (374 words)

	Isak_dinesen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Another set of fabulous stories from Isak Dinesen : The stories in this book are completely in line with all her other works.
		A diary of letters : In her own words Isak Dinesen gives you a peak into life on her beloved farm.
		Written in World War II Denmark by Karen Blixen (the Isak Dinesen of Out Of Africa), it is the story of two young ladies who have lost their possessions and families...
	books.mysic.com /Author/Isak_Dinesen (1356 words)

	Pocatello Idaho State Journal: Author Isak Dinesen comes alive in Westside production (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Thus, in "Lucifer's Child," Isak Dinesen explains her almost 20 years of living in East Africa and the way it informed the rest of her life.
		Mary-Alice Boulter is Isak Dinesen, now 74 years of age and ailing, who weaves her delicious tale of great love and loss - love of family and things familiar, love of the exotic that becomes familiar, ageless love of the ideal man who is lost, love of a life that cruelly bites back.
		Dinesen described herself simply as a storyteller, and her skills at drawing her audience into her tales were honed by her experiences.
	www.journalnet.com /articles/2003/03/27/features/escapes/escapes09.txt (475 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Isak Dinesen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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		In 1914 she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, and went to live in British East Africa (now Kenya) on a coffee plantation.
		Dinesen's later works include Winter's Tales (1943); Last Tales (1957), another collection of stories of the supernatural; and Shadows on the Grass (1960), sketches of African life.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761571172__1/Isak_Dinesen.html (254 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Isak Dinesen collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		If you're a fan of Dinesen and have read the biographies, you know how identified she was with the oral tradition.
		Isak Dinesen tells two powerful stories full of artistic detail and insights into human nature.
		Dinesen accomplishes this story with an obvious respect, if not reverence for the Christian account of the Resurrection.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0945353316 (793 words)

	Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This biography "progresses chronologically, detailing Dinesen's turn-of-the-century childhood in Denmark, her marriage and subsequent years in Kenyarunning the ill-fated coffee plantation, her return to Denmark and her flourishing literary career of the 1940s and 50s." (Libr J) Bibliography.
		With exceptional grace, Judith Thurman's classic work explores Isak Dinesen's life - her privileged but unhappy childhood in Denmark, her marriage to Baron Blixen and their immigration to Africa on the eve of World War I, and her passionate affair with Denys Finch Hatton.
		Until the appearance of this book, the life and art of Dinesen have been - as Dinesen herself wrote of two lovers in a tale - "a pair of locked caskets, each containing the key to the other." Judith Thurman has provided the master key to them both.
	www.zooscape.com /cgi-bin/maitred/WhitePulp/isbn0312437382 (221 words)

	Additional Reading (from Dinesen, Isak) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Judith Thurman, Isak Dinesen (1982), is a fine biography utilizing Dinesen's private papers and letters.
		Writing in both her native Danish and in English, Isak Dinesen crafted internationally acclaimed tales of remarkable adventure, devastating heartache, and extraordinary challenge.
		Most of her writings were narrative tales told in the Romantic tradition, often infused with a dreamlike, almost supernatural aura.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-1827?tocId=1827 (754 words)

	AN ISAK DINESEN FEAST
		This unique collection includes Dinesen's best-known works, a live performance of a play about her life, and two stories read by the author herself.
		Isak Dinesen is brought to life by Julie Harris in Lucifer's Child, a one-woman play by William Luce based on Dinesen's life and writings.
		Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) was the pen name for Danish Countess Karen Blixen.
	www.audiopartners.com /feast.cfm?userid=92671342 (470 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Out of Africa (Modern Library) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) has been elevated to star status by the feminists for her independent stance and courage, but don't read this book because of that.
		Dinesen's finely tuned sensitivity is revealed here, as well as her (again typically Danish) well-developed gift for friendship with many kinds of people.
		Africa is the star of the book, not Dinesen herself, not the tribespeople or the colonials, not her struggles with raising coffee in land "a little too high", nor her political dealings with the government officials.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679600213?v=glance (1719 words)

	Comparative Literature: Hannah Arendt on Isak Dinesen: Between Storytelling and Theory
		They are attributed to "Isak Dinesen," the British and American nom de plume of the Danish writer known as Karen Blixen in Denmark, although no source is given.
		Arendt mentions Dinesen elsewhere in the Human Condition as well as in other published texts, although at first glance these references offer little in the way of an explanation for her interest.
		There are, on the other hand, no references to Dinesen in the hundreds of letters to Heidegger, her husband Heinrich Blucher, or Mary McCarthy, although the latter does refer to Dinesen in a letter written to Arendt in 1968.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3612/is_200401/ai_n9348979 (1021 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Isak Dinesen
		Babette's dishes -- which didn't exist before author Isak Dinesen described them in the short story on which the movie is based, but now there's a cottage industry in recreating the feast -- are fantastical and otherworldly.
		The camera cuts between the realistic scenes of Stephane Audran preparing the meal, and the surreal magic of the fine French dinner served in the rustic Danish dining room, transforming the austere gathering in a scene that is as much a masterpiece as the food.
		One of the rare examples of female author and male muse is the relationship between Danish-born writer Isak Dinesen and her aviator-lover Denys Finch Hatton (Boston Globe, MA)
	news.surfwax.com /authors/files/Isak_Dinesen_Book.html (1128 words)

	Isak Dinesen \| Women in Twentieth-Century Literature \| 105 Greatest Living Authors Present the World's Best ...
		Isak Dinesen: The Life and Imagination of a Seducer
		Manichean Aesthetics: The Politics of Literature in Colonial Africa ("Isak Dinesen: The Generation of Mythic Consciousness" begins on p.
		...Racial Romance 15 Isak Dinesen: The Generation of Mythic Consciousness...three Europeans, Joyce Caw, Isak Dinesen, and Nadine Gordimer, and three...need to civilize.
	www.questia.com /library/literature/literature-of-specific-countries/other-european-literature/isak-dinesen.jsp (532 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Isak Dinesen : The Life of a Storyteller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		She was also lucky enough to live in a time when not every corner of the earth echoed with the ideas of everywhere else and that allowered for her originality where not all eccentric arrows had to be pointed into practical directions.
		Dinesen's Africa is no more but her roller coaster ride as a woman of talent and sometimes complex and dark passions is timeless.
		Thurman tells the story of Dinesen's long African adventure, the story of her marriage and its sad ending in divorce, and too the story of Dinesen's great love, Denys Finch- Hatton.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312135254?v=glance (2350 words)

	Longman Anthology of Short Fiction Online Chapter 2 -- Isak Dinesen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Like many authors in this anthology, Isak Dinesen wrote against the trend of her mid-20th century contemporaries.
		Critics observe that she presents a romantic idealization of art as superior to lived experience, as "divine." Feminist critics have analyzed her critique of women’s socially appointed roles, and her questioning of the distinction between normal and aberrant sexuality.
		Transcript of a lecture on Dinesen’s work, and critical reception by her reviewers and readers.
	occawlonline.pearsoned.com /bookbind/pubbooks/gioialasf_abl/chapter2/custom43/deluxe-content.html (204 words)

	Winter's Tales by Isak Dinesen
		In Isak Dinesen's universe, the magical enchantment of the fairy tale and the moral resonance of myth coexist with an unflinching grasp of the most obscure human strengths and weaknesses.
		Shimmering and haunting, Dinesen's Winter's Tales transport us, through their author's deft guidance of our desire to imagine, to the mysterious place where all stories are born.
		"Dinesen's stories come toward one like the flashes...from a lighthouse on a strange and infrequently sighted coast--a coast beautiful and precarious, for it may be the last outreach of magic, but resting on bedrock."--Eudora Welty
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0679743340 (339 words)

	Isak Dinesen's Complete List of Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Letters from Africa, 1914-1931 by Isak Dinesen, Frans Lasson, Anne Born
		The Angelic Avengers by Pierre Andrezel, Isak Dinesen
		Isak Dinesen Herself: Telling Two Stories/the King's Letter/the Wine of the Tetrarch by Isak Dinesen
	www.3000authors.com /authors/Isak_Dinesen.htm (74 words)

	People Weekly: Isak Dinesen.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		If Sydney Pollack's screen version of the Danish author's best-known work takes frequent liberties with the truth about her years on a Kenya coffee plantation, omitting important aspects of her life and soft-focusing others to achieve a heightened sense of drama and romance, so much the better.
		Dinesen's own Out of Africa, begun in 1936, five years after she returned to Denmark, is hardly nonfiction.
		She once wrote, "A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:4123819&refid=holomed_1 (176 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Isak Dinesen
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Isak Dinesen
		Dinesen, Isak, pseudonym of Baroness Karen Christence Blixen-Finecke, née Dinesen (1885-1962), Danish writer, born in Rungsted.
		Oral literature is the oldest form of literature in Kenya, and oral narratives continue to play an important role in the lives of most Kenyan...
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