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A Poetics of the Insignificant

Peter Seeberg’s Fictional Documentarism

Jeppe Barnwell
Scandinavian Studies, January 2025, 97 (1) 75-95; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.97.1.75
Jeppe Barnwell
Jeppe Barnwell holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge. He is a senior editor at the Society for Danish Language and Literature and a PhD fellow at the University of Copenhagen (part-time). He has edited a critical edition of Peter Seeberg’s collected novels and short stories in 11 volumes.
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