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    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Ring"
    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Ring"
    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Ring"
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    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Ring"

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    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Ring," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 6, 2016
    ISBN9781535832137
    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Ring"

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      A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Ring" - Gale

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      The Ring

      Isak Dinesen

      1958

      Introduction

      The short story The Ring by Isak Dinesen (whose real name was Karen Blixen) can be seen both as typical of its author’s literary art and as different from her most characteristic mode of expression. Its eighteenth-century Danish setting places it within the deliberate archaism of Dinesen’s storytelling, and its concern with fundamentals such as identity, sexuality, and violence echo such concerns in her other tales. On the other hand, The Ring has a simplicity not found in some of Dinesen’s other works. In its concise style, it resembles a folktale or an episode from a medieval saga. The Ring, which appears in the 1958 collection called Anecdotes of Destiny, adheres to the classical styles of storytelling, the Aristotelian unities of character, setting, and temporal span, and explores the way in which violence both breaks and reforges character.

      Although dismissed by some of her contemporaries as an archaist who manipulated devices of eighteenth-century storytelling in a manner irrelevant to the modern condition, Dinesen has since come to be valued as an incisive commentator on modernity. While The Ring deals with a group of people, rural Danes of a past century, quite alien to the American reader of the 1990s, the tale addresses a universal human condition: Like Lovisa, the young bride, readers can find themselves caught up in a world which they did not make but with which they must come to terms.

      Author Biography

      Like Oswald Spengler, Thomas Mann, Sigrid Undset, and Hermann Hesse, Isak Dinesen (1885-1962), whose real name was Karen Blixen, was born in the nineteenth century and to a great extent remained true to its Romantic ideals though she lived well into the twentieth century. They participated fully, if critically, in the great artistic, social, philosophical, and political phenomenon known as modernity. To mention Dinesen, a daughter of Danish nobility whose roots were traceable all the way back to the middle ages, in company with Spengler, Mann, Undset, and Hesse is to point out that her modernity, like theirs, was

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