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This fine collection of essays offers a wide range of new and original perspectives on Strindberg and his relation to modern and contemporary literature. By using Strindberg as a fulcrum or spring board, the volume opens a unique and unusual historical perspective on Europe and European literature. One of the important values of The International Strindberg is that it will appeal to a variety of readers, since the essays cover such a diverse range of approaches. The introduction is particularly impressive because it both sets up the value of looking at Strindberg from a twenty-first century perspective and suggests how that can and should be done. The volume demonstrates the variety of ways in which Strindberg’s work can be seen and discussed in light of twentieth and even twenty-first century literature.

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Anna Westerstahl Stenport is an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she teaches literature, film, drama, and gender and women's studies. She directs the University's undergraduate Scandinavian Program and holds appointments in the European Union Centre and as a faculty liaison for INSPIRE: Illinois-Sweden Program in Educational and Research Exchange. She has held academic appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and is an American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellow and a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar.

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