Aristocratic Universe of Karen Blixen: Destiny and the Denial of Fate Book

	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Karen Blixen's Works
	Truth and Creation - Early writing and painting	7
	Encounter with the Primary - Accounts of Africa	12
	Fantastical Transformation - Seven Gothic Tales	13
	Aristocratic Conduct of Life and Bourgeois Lifelessness - Winter's Tales	20
	Verdict on Conscience - The Angelic Avengers	30
	Childlike Wealth - "The Ghost Horses"	33
	Origin and Ambiguity - Last Tales	36
	A Preliminary Look at Anecdotes of Destiny	38
	Art and Reality - Ehrengard	39
	Love and Ideals - Essays	40
	Dialogue and Responsibility - Karen Blixen in Denmark: Letters, 1931-1962	41
Pt. II	When Destiny Comes Calling
	Prelude	45
	The Aristocratic Art
	The twofold nature of the tale	46
	Silence and statement	48
	The artist and freedom	50
	Life-giving narrative	51
	Fidelity to the artistic nature	52
	The immutable power of fiction	55
	Layers and episodes	61
	Heavenly love and blazing passion	63
	The taming of Babette	69
	Kaaba and the cornerstone	72
	The diabolical claim	74
	The serpent in Berlevaag	76
	Armament and witches' Sabbath	79
	The moment of absolution	84
	"Babette's Feast" and "The Dead"	87
	Vanity and mortality: Loewenhielm	88
	The reckoning	93
	Babette and Pellegrina	96
	Outline	97
	On the threshold	99
	Marriage in the forest	102
	Lea and Lise	110
Pt. III	Life and Tale
	Incentive and Repression - Familial influence	115
	Light and Darkness in Africa	122
	Displacement and Reflection in Denmark	127
	Conclusion	138
	Notes	144
	Published Works	156
	Selected Bibliography	157
	Index	159