Rescuing Sedna: Doorslamming, Fingerslicing, and the Moral of the Story

Compares English translations of the Inuit legend of Sedna to early rewrites of Ibsen's "A Doll's House". ".interpreters of Ibsen and tellers of Inuit stories both struggle with the same problem: the seemingly unavoidable need on the part of the audience to distill the compl...

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Main Author: Martin, Keavy
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Canadian Comparative Literature Association 2011
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Online Access:https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/crcl/index.php/crcl/article/view/24549
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Summary:Compares English translations of the Inuit legend of Sedna to early rewrites of Ibsen's "A Doll's House". ".interpreters of Ibsen and tellers of Inuit stories both struggle with the same problem: the seemingly unavoidable need on the part of the audience to distill the complexities of an unfamiliar or unsettling text down to a set of easily-understood principles-to find a moral in the story."