Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Gender and Feminist Perspectives -- Consuming Isak Dinesen -- Life as Fiction: Narrative Appropriation in Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa -- Sp(l)acing out of the (Sub)Text: Rewriting through Landscapes in Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa -- Lilith and Gender Equality in Isak Dinesen's "The Supper at Elsinore" and "The Old Chevalier" -- Tapping the Roots: Hidden Sources of Power in Isak Dinesen's "The Dreamers" -- II. The Symbolist Tradition -- Mallarméan Poetics and Isak Dinesen's Politics in "The Blank Page" -- The Poetics of the Story: On Symbolist Tendencies in Isak Dinesen's Fiction -- Isak Dinesen Among the Victorians: Some Shared Symbolic Techniques -- III. Interpretive Strategies from Rhetoric to Deconstruction -- Isak Dinesen Versus Postmodernism: The Criticism of Modernity and the Problem of Non-simultaneousness in Relation to Isak Dinesen's Work -- Methods of Narratology and Rhetoric for Analyzing Isak Dinesen's "The Blank Page" -- The Silent Tale: Pragmatic Strategy in Isak Dinesen's "The Blank Page" -- The Phenomenon of Intertextuality and the Role of Androgyny in Isak Dinesen's "The Roads Round Pisa" -- Isak Dinesen's "The Pearls:" Resentment and the Economy of Narrative -- Deconstructing the Fictional World of Isak Dinesen's "The Monkey" -- Works Cited and Consulted -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Notes on the Contributors.