Per Seyersted
Norwegian professor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Per Eynert Seyersted was a Professor of American Literature at the American Institute at the University of Oslo. Seyersted was born in Oslo, Norway. He earned his master's degree at Harvard University in 1959 and earned his doctoral degree in 1969 at the University of Oslo. He was internationally renowned for his monograph on 19th century novelist Kate Chopin. His last monograph was a study of the works of Robert Cantwell. According to Professor of American Literature Per Winther, Seyersted’s book on Chopin became an important reference for the emergence of feminist literary criticism in the 1970s and 1980s and his work has been crucial in the rediscovery of Chopin.
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- Kate Chopin: A Critical Biography (1969) (57)
- Kate Chopin's Private Papers (1998) (16)
- A Kate Chopin miscellany (1979) (12)
- Two Interviews with Leslie Marmon Silko (1981) (7)
- Leslie Marmon Silko (1980) (6)
- "Who Do You Think You Are?" Alice Munro and the Place of Origin (1992) (5)
- The Indian in Knickerbocker's New Amsterdam. (1974) (3)
- Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen: Outer Success, Inner Failure (1966) (1)
- Turgenev's Interest in America, as seen in his contacts with H. H. Boyesen, W. D. Howells and other American Authors (1965) (1)
- A Survey of Trends and Figures in Afro-American Fiction (1973) (0)
- Sons of the Old Country@@@Han Ola og han Per: A Norwegian-American Comic Strip@@@The Promise of America: History of the Norwegian-American People@@@Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen: From Norwegian Romantic to American Realist (1985) (0)
- Kate Chopin: A Critical Biography.@@@The Complete Works of Kate Chopin. (1971) (0)
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