World Literature Module 5.9

Out of Africa

Study Guide: World Literature (Excellence in Literature, English 5)

Focus Text: Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen, a pseudonym for Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke

“Babette’s Feast” by Isak Dinesen (a short story)

Honors Text: 

Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton OR

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C.S. Lewis

EIL 5.9 Context Resources

These links represent only the online resources referenced in this module. Instructions, background information, offline resources, and assignments are all found in the Excellence in Literature study guide listed above.

Readings

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/memoir-as-post-modern-history/

https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol1/iss2/3/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Soren-Kierkegaard

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/131christians/moversandshakers/kierkegaard.html

https://formeraspiringphilosopher.com/2015/12/14/the-king-the-maiden-kierkegaards-christmas-parable/

https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/243230.html

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/babettes-feast-the-beatific-vision

One Thousand and One Arabian Nights by Geraldine McCaughrean:

https://absoluteshakespeare.com/guides/summaries/merchant_of_venice/merchant_of_venice_summary.htm

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/babettes-feast-the-beatific-vision/

The Author’s Life

Roger Leslie’s Isak Dinesen: Gothic Storyteller

https://blixen.dk/en/karen-blixen/karen-blixens-life

https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4911/the-art-of-fiction-no-14-isak-dinesen

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/12/travel/in-search-of-karen-blixen-s-kenya.html

 

Poetry

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/a-e-housman-poetry

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/rainer-maria-rilke-poetry/

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/marianne-moore-poetry/

Audio

http://amzn.to/2rV4LOn

Music

http://www.impresario.ch/opera/nuce/nutmoz.htm

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/out-of-africa-soundtrack-music

Video

1985 movie: Out of Africa

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092603/parentalguide

Visual Arts

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/art-2/british-artists

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/art-2/italian-artists

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/art-2/dutch-masters

http://www.karenblixen.com/question50.html

http://www.maarupkirke.dk/

Historic Context

https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/postcolonialstudies/2014/06/10/207/

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/history-of-kenya-by-bamber-gascoigne

Places to Go

https://blixen.dk/en/visit-the-museum

https://www.museums.or.ke/karen-blixen/

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Index of World Literature context link pages

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World Literature Texts (recommended editions)

World Lit study guide, and links to focus and honors texts (opens in a new tab at the author’s Everyday Education site)