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- ↑ Žagar, Monika (2011). Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. p. 137.
- 1 2 Oxfeldt, Elizabeth (2005). Nordic Orientalism: Paris and the Cosmopolitan Imagination, 1800–1900. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen. p. 220.
- ↑ Žagar, Monika (1998). "Knut Hamsun's Taming of the Shrew? A Reading of 'Dronning Tamara'". Scandinavian Studies. 70 (3): 354–355.