![]() ![]() Primary sources of inspiration and irritation for Dinesen include major writers such as Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, but also lesser-known figures as well.Ī rich example of Dinesen's use of nineteenth-century sources is the second to last story in the 1934 collection Seven Gothic Tales, "The Dreamers" (1) In this analysis, I will examine the gothic precursors for the figures Olalla and Rosalba, who are presented as alternative identities for the tale's female protagonist, Pellegrina Leoni. ![]() ![]() More than many other writers, she consciously engaged in an ideological dialogue with her literary predecessors by often subverting nineteenth-century patriarchal discourse, as Sara Stambaugh points out (19). We know that Isak Dinesen strove to create intricate intertextual puzzles in her writing. ![]()
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