Music in the Dark: Soundscapes in Christiane Ritter’s A Woman in The Polar Night
In A Woman in the Polar Night (Eine Frau erlebt die Polarnacht, 1938), Christiane Ritter, a well-to-do Austrian housewife, describes her experience as the first central European woman to overwinter on Svalbard (1934–35). Ritter’s prose is extraordinary in its lyrical simplicity, and in German editio...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English Norwegian |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2020
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.7557/13.5537 https://doaj.org/article/75263a80a58740ad8101de15a53246ed |