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Man as Extension of Media: Finance and Fiction in Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson’s En Fallit

Lars August Fodstad
Scandinavian Studies, September 2021, 93 (3) 405-430; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.93.3.0405
Lars August Fodstad
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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