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A Ballad and a Movie: Scandinavian TSB B21 and Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring

Paul Acker
Scandinavian Studies, March 2022, 94 (1) 89-118; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.94.1.0089
Paul Acker
Saint Louis University
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