Nordic literature :: a comparative history /
This volume devotes its attention to the changing literary figurations of space by Nordic writers from medieval to contemporary times. The productive historical contingency of the "North" as a literary space becomes clear in this close analysis of its literary texts and practices.
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| Series: | Comparative history of literatures in European languages ;
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| Summary: | This volume devotes its attention to the changing literary figurations of space by Nordic writers from medieval to contemporary times. The productive historical contingency of the "North" as a literary space becomes clear in this close analysis of its literary texts and practices. |
| Item Description: | Volume I: Spatial nodes / edited by Thomas A. DuBois and Dan Ringgaard. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027265050 9027265054 |
| ISSN: | 0238-0668 ; |
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| 500 | |a Volume I: Spatial nodes / edited by Thomas A. DuBois and Dan Ringgaard. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- NORDIC LITERATURE: A COMPARATIVE HISTORY VOLUME I: SPATIAL NODES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- List of figures -- Preface -- General project introduction -- Is there such a place as Scandinavia? -- Language and region -- Region as an explanatory space -- The framework -- The concept of place -- Place and literature -- Place and region -- Scapes and practices -- The aim of the framework -- Scapes -- Landscapes -- Fourteenth century and on: Looking back from landscape -- Mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth century: The emergence of landscape -- Nineteenth century: The dissemination of landscape -- Late nineteenth to early twentieth century: Inhabiting the landscape -- Twentieth century: Beneath, above, and beyond landscape -- Non-Nordic landscape -- Point of contact -- The domain of Bárður Snæfellsás -- Snæfellsjökull from afar -- Snæfellsjökull as medium -- A guide to Gurre, temporary landscape -- Utopias as territories of Swedish modernism -- Prelude: Two utopias in classic Scandinavian literature -- Urbs, the utopian global city of Ludvig Nordström -- The utopia of the planetary nomad of Harry Martinson -- The cosmic dystopia of Martinson -- The metachronic dystopia of Karin Boye -- Shipping: Heterotopias and the reterritorialization of modernism -- Jutland and the West Coast as liminal spaces in Danish literature -- Denmark's imagined geography -- Blicher's Jutland -- Hans Christian Andersen and the West Coast -- Goldschmidt: A Jewish writer's Danish travels -- On the point -- The disillusion of the Danish Dream -- The postcolonial West Coast -- "Far higher mountains" -- Ascent -- On the hill: The self and the landscape -- On the mountaintop: The self and the sublime -- Poems of homesickness and longing -- Songs about the homeland and national anthems -- Descent. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a South of the South -- Hans Christian Andersen in the Grotta Azzurra -- Fersen: Decadent Capri -- Munthe: Capri paradise -- Paradise lost -- Waterscapes -- Medieval mapping: Landnámabók þeiri -- Baroque topography: Nordlands trompet -- Going inland: Finnish lakes -- Archipelagos and islands -- At sea -- Modernist techniques: Östersjöar -- The tale of a thousand lakes -- Lakes and other literary waterscapes -- What one can do with lakes in literature -- Lakes as national symbols -- Erotic tensions on the lake -- Spiritual lakes -- Rewriting lake scenes -- The island in Nordic literature -- Archipelago -- Emilie Flygare-Carlén's 'Rosen på Tistelön': Crime and punishment in the archipelago -- August Strindberg's 'I havsbandet': The creative intellect and its defeat -- John Ajvide Lindqvist's 'Människohamn': Loss, love, and faith -- Distance and threat: The city and the archipelago -- The archipelago as liminal space -- There must be a periphery -- Far away in the north: J. H. O. Djurhuus -- Dano-Faroese literature -- Paper boat in rough waters -- "Far out in an ocean" -- Gunnar Hoydal: A rooted cosmopolitan -- Conclusion -- The seven seas -- Sea histories -- Erasure and artistic archaeology -- Sea, ship, sailor -- Domestic life and maritime life -- Antagonism -- Compromise -- Re-enchantment -- Cityscapes -- The urban novel -- Cityscape as lightscape -- Cityscape as wordscape -- Beyond the Nordic cityscape -- Through the land of 'lagom' in literature -- "A charming and remarkable intermediate!" -- "A town under this town" -- "A kick that shattered the glass and broke the frame" -- "Though so like Paris..." -- "One of the most beautifully located small cities in Sweden" -- "What is a pane of glass in this world?" -- A city awakens -- The student novel -- The city walker -- Helsinki in the mist -- The Great Strike and the Viapori Rebellion. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a A kaleidoscopic city novel -- Conclusion -- Walking the city -- The didactic traveler -- The journalist -- The revolutionary -- The spiritual wanderer -- The vagabond -- The bohemian -- The sexual woman -- The worker -- The 'flâneur' revisited -- The limits of the unlimited -- The history-accumulator -- The making of Berlin (1800-70) -- The modern metropolis: Berlin as a parvenu (1870/71-1914/18) -- Fascinating excesses, enchanting order (1914/18-1944) -- Cold wars (1945-89) -- Berlin as a 'lieu de mémoire' (1989/90-2010) -- Poets in New York -- City of sun and dreams -- Between anachronism and synchronism -- The howl from America -- City of the body -- Prose writers in New York -- Everything glitters -- Lightscapes -- Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 1 -- "Sun came from the South" -- Contrasting domestic lightscapes -- Four types of lightscapes -- Religion and metaphysics (1500-1870) -- The celestial lightscape reaches the Earth -- Rhetoric and poetic creativity (1600 to the present) -- Self-promoting lightscapes -- Lightscapes of cognition (1750-1925) -- Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 2 -- "I am longing for Italy" -- The new literary lightscape -- From the touristic gaze to the escapist illusion -- Individualized lightscapes -- Existential changes -- Escapist dreams -- Cosmologies -- The sea and the city -- Qualities of light -- Forest-light to field-light -- The presence of past light -- Shadow lands -- Glocalizing the light of Norwg-West -- Inner light -- The light of labor -- Regio Norwg-West, picts takat fra ofven -- Light -- Millenniumscapes -- New Nordic -- At the margins of the welfare state -- Beyond literary place -- Toxic places -- Place and the nation -- The atomic age and the vision of the global -- Chernobyl in the Nordic spatial imagination -- Toxicity and the lost pastoral. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Toxicity and a globalized sense of place -- Toxicity and invisible geographies -- Pollution and place -- This site is under construction -- Imagined communities and planned regions -- Negotiating national boundaries in the novel -- Bridging the binational binary -- The Øresund as global nexus -- Øresund noir: Bron/Broen -- The ephemerality of the region -- Epilogue -- Cathartic moments or spatial liberty -- Fiction -- Gameplay -- 'Hamlet' revisited -- Caterpillar and self-reference -- Playability: Closing remarks -- Introduction -- Settling -- "And the two shall become one flesh" -- Taking land and claiming place in Nordic migrant literature -- Emigration and immigration narratives -- Contemporary migrant literature -- Conclusion -- Radical utopianism among Nordic immigrant authors -- Dwelling -- Dwelling as captivity -- The rise of children's literature -- Rural dwelling and the rise of tourism -- Seasonal secondary dwellings -- Acknowledgements -- "Worker ants on the lush bosom of Earth" -- Well-ordered households and daily routines -- Hard life and bohemian lifestyle in small cabins -- Separation from agrarian time-space -- Contemporary nostalgia for the agrarian way of life -- By land, by sea, by air, by mind -- "Tehkös liitto, lintuseni" / Let us strike a bargain, little bird -- "Flyttfåglarne" / Birds of passage -- Ruoktu Váimmus / Trekways of the Wind -- "Tid: en sång om Trojas murar" / Time: A song about the walls of Troy -- Conclusion -- Exploring -- Explorers of the Grand Tour -- The literary Arctic -- Portraying the journey to the pole -- Nansen's Greenland expedition -- The polar avant garde -- Explorers as authors -- Hybrid genres -- Dislocation and identity formation in the work of Isak Dinesen -- Absorbing places and the triumph of modernity -- Northern bound -- Sacralizing -- Landscapes of power. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Sacralized space in Nordic oral literature -- The literary uses of liminal space -- The rise of nationalism -- Multiethnic challenges -- Postcolonial Challenges -- Niðaróss cathedral -- Nation and sacrifice -- Søren Kierkegaard's 'Frygt og Bæven' -- Henrik Ibsen's 'Brand' -- Dag Solstad's 'Armand V.': Fotnoter til en uutgravd roman -- Kirsten Hammann's 'En dråbe i havet' -- Legend and liminality -- Liminality -- Worlding -- Fishing for meaning on the Deatnu River -- De-framing the indigenous body -- Embracing "the mongrel" -- Landscape, memory, and culture -- Re-framing/De-framing the colonial representation -- "Arctic hysteria" -- Family albums -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Works cited -- Location index -- Person index. | |
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| contents | Intro -- NORDIC LITERATURE: A COMPARATIVE HISTORY VOLUME I: SPATIAL NODES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- List of figures -- Preface -- General project introduction -- Is there such a place as Scandinavia? -- Language and region -- Region as an explanatory space -- The framework -- The concept of place -- Place and literature -- Place and region -- Scapes and practices -- The aim of the framework -- Scapes -- Landscapes -- Fourteenth century and on: Looking back from landscape -- Mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth century: The emergence of landscape -- Nineteenth century: The dissemination of landscape -- Late nineteenth to early twentieth century: Inhabiting the landscape -- Twentieth century: Beneath, above, and beyond landscape -- Non-Nordic landscape -- Point of contact -- The domain of Bárður Snæfellsás -- Snæfellsjökull from afar -- Snæfellsjökull as medium -- A guide to Gurre, temporary landscape -- Utopias as territories of Swedish modernism -- Prelude: Two utopias in classic Scandinavian literature -- Urbs, the utopian global city of Ludvig Nordström -- The utopia of the planetary nomad of Harry Martinson -- The cosmic dystopia of Martinson -- The metachronic dystopia of Karin Boye -- Shipping: Heterotopias and the reterritorialization of modernism -- Jutland and the West Coast as liminal spaces in Danish literature -- Denmark's imagined geography -- Blicher's Jutland -- Hans Christian Andersen and the West Coast -- Goldschmidt: A Jewish writer's Danish travels -- On the point -- The disillusion of the Danish Dream -- The postcolonial West Coast -- "Far higher mountains" -- Ascent -- On the hill: The self and the landscape -- On the mountaintop: The self and the sublime -- Poems of homesickness and longing -- Songs about the homeland and national anthems -- Descent. South of the South -- Hans Christian Andersen in the Grotta Azzurra -- Fersen: Decadent Capri -- Munthe: Capri paradise -- Paradise lost -- Waterscapes -- Medieval mapping: Landnámabók þeiri -- Baroque topography: Nordlands trompet -- Going inland: Finnish lakes -- Archipelagos and islands -- At sea -- Modernist techniques: Östersjöar -- The tale of a thousand lakes -- Lakes and other literary waterscapes -- What one can do with lakes in literature -- Lakes as national symbols -- Erotic tensions on the lake -- Spiritual lakes -- Rewriting lake scenes -- The island in Nordic literature -- Archipelago -- Emilie Flygare-Carlén's 'Rosen på Tistelön': Crime and punishment in the archipelago -- August Strindberg's 'I havsbandet': The creative intellect and its defeat -- John Ajvide Lindqvist's 'Människohamn': Loss, love, and faith -- Distance and threat: The city and the archipelago -- The archipelago as liminal space -- There must be a periphery -- Far away in the north: J. H. O. Djurhuus -- Dano-Faroese literature -- Paper boat in rough waters -- "Far out in an ocean" -- Gunnar Hoydal: A rooted cosmopolitan -- Conclusion -- The seven seas -- Sea histories -- Erasure and artistic archaeology -- Sea, ship, sailor -- Domestic life and maritime life -- Antagonism -- Compromise -- Re-enchantment -- Cityscapes -- The urban novel -- Cityscape as lightscape -- Cityscape as wordscape -- Beyond the Nordic cityscape -- Through the land of 'lagom' in literature -- "A charming and remarkable intermediate!" -- "A town under this town" -- "A kick that shattered the glass and broke the frame" -- "Though so like Paris..." -- "One of the most beautifully located small cities in Sweden" -- "What is a pane of glass in this world?" -- A city awakens -- The student novel -- The city walker -- Helsinki in the mist -- The Great Strike and the Viapori Rebellion. A kaleidoscopic city novel -- Conclusion -- Walking the city -- The didactic traveler -- The journalist -- The revolutionary -- The spiritual wanderer -- The vagabond -- The bohemian -- The sexual woman -- The worker -- The 'flâneur' revisited -- The limits of the unlimited -- The history-accumulator -- The making of Berlin (1800-70) -- The modern metropolis: Berlin as a parvenu (1870/71-1914/18) -- Fascinating excesses, enchanting order (1914/18-1944) -- Cold wars (1945-89) -- Berlin as a 'lieu de mémoire' (1989/90-2010) -- Poets in New York -- City of sun and dreams -- Between anachronism and synchronism -- The howl from America -- City of the body -- Prose writers in New York -- Everything glitters -- Lightscapes -- Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 1 -- "Sun came from the South" -- Contrasting domestic lightscapes -- Four types of lightscapes -- Religion and metaphysics (1500-1870) -- The celestial lightscape reaches the Earth -- Rhetoric and poetic creativity (1600 to the present) -- Self-promoting lightscapes -- Lightscapes of cognition (1750-1925) -- Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 2 -- "I am longing for Italy" -- The new literary lightscape -- From the touristic gaze to the escapist illusion -- Individualized lightscapes -- Existential changes -- Escapist dreams -- Cosmologies -- The sea and the city -- Qualities of light -- Forest-light to field-light -- The presence of past light -- Shadow lands -- Glocalizing the light of Norwg-West -- Inner light -- The light of labor -- Regio Norwg-West, picts takat fra ofven -- Light -- Millenniumscapes -- New Nordic -- At the margins of the welfare state -- Beyond literary place -- Toxic places -- Place and the nation -- The atomic age and the vision of the global -- Chernobyl in the Nordic spatial imagination -- Toxicity and the lost pastoral. Toxicity and a globalized sense of place -- Toxicity and invisible geographies -- Pollution and place -- This site is under construction -- Imagined communities and planned regions -- Negotiating national boundaries in the novel -- Bridging the binational binary -- The Øresund as global nexus -- Øresund noir: Bron/Broen -- The ephemerality of the region -- Epilogue -- Cathartic moments or spatial liberty -- Fiction -- Gameplay -- 'Hamlet' revisited -- Caterpillar and self-reference -- Playability: Closing remarks -- Introduction -- Settling -- "And the two shall become one flesh" -- Taking land and claiming place in Nordic migrant literature -- Emigration and immigration narratives -- Contemporary migrant literature -- Conclusion -- Radical utopianism among Nordic immigrant authors -- Dwelling -- Dwelling as captivity -- The rise of children's literature -- Rural dwelling and the rise of tourism -- Seasonal secondary dwellings -- Acknowledgements -- "Worker ants on the lush bosom of Earth" -- Well-ordered households and daily routines -- Hard life and bohemian lifestyle in small cabins -- Separation from agrarian time-space -- Contemporary nostalgia for the agrarian way of life -- By land, by sea, by air, by mind -- "Tehkös liitto, lintuseni" / Let us strike a bargain, little bird -- "Flyttfåglarne" / Birds of passage -- Ruoktu Váimmus / Trekways of the Wind -- "Tid: en sång om Trojas murar" / Time: A song about the walls of Troy -- Conclusion -- Exploring -- Explorers of the Grand Tour -- The literary Arctic -- Portraying the journey to the pole -- Nansen's Greenland expedition -- The polar avant garde -- Explorers as authors -- Hybrid genres -- Dislocation and identity formation in the work of Isak Dinesen -- Absorbing places and the triumph of modernity -- Northern bound -- Sacralizing -- Landscapes of power. Sacralized space in Nordic oral literature -- The literary uses of liminal space -- The rise of nationalism -- Multiethnic challenges -- Postcolonial Challenges -- Niðaróss cathedral -- Nation and sacrifice -- Søren Kierkegaard's 'Frygt og Bæven' -- Henrik Ibsen's 'Brand' -- Dag Solstad's 'Armand V.': Fotnoter til en uutgravd roman -- Kirsten Hammann's 'En dråbe i havet' -- Legend and liminality -- Liminality -- Worlding -- Fishing for meaning on the Deatnu River -- De-framing the indigenous body -- Embracing "the mongrel" -- Landscape, memory, and culture -- Re-framing/De-framing the colonial representation -- "Arctic hysteria" -- Family albums -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Works cited -- Location index -- Person index. |
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| spelling | Nordic literature : a comparative history / general editors: Steven P. Sondrup and Mark B. Sandberg. Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017. 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer n rdamedia online resource nc rdacarrier Comparative history of literatures in European languages, 0238-0668 ; XXXI Volume I: Spatial nodes / edited by Thomas A. DuBois and Dan Ringgaard. Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. Intro -- NORDIC LITERATURE: A COMPARATIVE HISTORY VOLUME I: SPATIAL NODES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- List of figures -- Preface -- General project introduction -- Is there such a place as Scandinavia? -- Language and region -- Region as an explanatory space -- The framework -- The concept of place -- Place and literature -- Place and region -- Scapes and practices -- The aim of the framework -- Scapes -- Landscapes -- Fourteenth century and on: Looking back from landscape -- Mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth century: The emergence of landscape -- Nineteenth century: The dissemination of landscape -- Late nineteenth to early twentieth century: Inhabiting the landscape -- Twentieth century: Beneath, above, and beyond landscape -- Non-Nordic landscape -- Point of contact -- The domain of Bárður Snæfellsás -- Snæfellsjökull from afar -- Snæfellsjökull as medium -- A guide to Gurre, temporary landscape -- Utopias as territories of Swedish modernism -- Prelude: Two utopias in classic Scandinavian literature -- Urbs, the utopian global city of Ludvig Nordström -- The utopia of the planetary nomad of Harry Martinson -- The cosmic dystopia of Martinson -- The metachronic dystopia of Karin Boye -- Shipping: Heterotopias and the reterritorialization of modernism -- Jutland and the West Coast as liminal spaces in Danish literature -- Denmark's imagined geography -- Blicher's Jutland -- Hans Christian Andersen and the West Coast -- Goldschmidt: A Jewish writer's Danish travels -- On the point -- The disillusion of the Danish Dream -- The postcolonial West Coast -- "Far higher mountains" -- Ascent -- On the hill: The self and the landscape -- On the mountaintop: The self and the sublime -- Poems of homesickness and longing -- Songs about the homeland and national anthems -- Descent. South of the South -- Hans Christian Andersen in the Grotta Azzurra -- Fersen: Decadent Capri -- Munthe: Capri paradise -- Paradise lost -- Waterscapes -- Medieval mapping: Landnámabók þeiri -- Baroque topography: Nordlands trompet -- Going inland: Finnish lakes -- Archipelagos and islands -- At sea -- Modernist techniques: Östersjöar -- The tale of a thousand lakes -- Lakes and other literary waterscapes -- What one can do with lakes in literature -- Lakes as national symbols -- Erotic tensions on the lake -- Spiritual lakes -- Rewriting lake scenes -- The island in Nordic literature -- Archipelago -- Emilie Flygare-Carlén's 'Rosen på Tistelön': Crime and punishment in the archipelago -- August Strindberg's 'I havsbandet': The creative intellect and its defeat -- John Ajvide Lindqvist's 'Människohamn': Loss, love, and faith -- Distance and threat: The city and the archipelago -- The archipelago as liminal space -- There must be a periphery -- Far away in the north: J. H. O. Djurhuus -- Dano-Faroese literature -- Paper boat in rough waters -- "Far out in an ocean" -- Gunnar Hoydal: A rooted cosmopolitan -- Conclusion -- The seven seas -- Sea histories -- Erasure and artistic archaeology -- Sea, ship, sailor -- Domestic life and maritime life -- Antagonism -- Compromise -- Re-enchantment -- Cityscapes -- The urban novel -- Cityscape as lightscape -- Cityscape as wordscape -- Beyond the Nordic cityscape -- Through the land of 'lagom' in literature -- "A charming and remarkable intermediate!" -- "A town under this town" -- "A kick that shattered the glass and broke the frame" -- "Though so like Paris..." -- "One of the most beautifully located small cities in Sweden" -- "What is a pane of glass in this world?" -- A city awakens -- The student novel -- The city walker -- Helsinki in the mist -- The Great Strike and the Viapori Rebellion. A kaleidoscopic city novel -- Conclusion -- Walking the city -- The didactic traveler -- The journalist -- The revolutionary -- The spiritual wanderer -- The vagabond -- The bohemian -- The sexual woman -- The worker -- The 'flâneur' revisited -- The limits of the unlimited -- The history-accumulator -- The making of Berlin (1800-70) -- The modern metropolis: Berlin as a parvenu (1870/71-1914/18) -- Fascinating excesses, enchanting order (1914/18-1944) -- Cold wars (1945-89) -- Berlin as a 'lieu de mémoire' (1989/90-2010) -- Poets in New York -- City of sun and dreams -- Between anachronism and synchronism -- The howl from America -- City of the body -- Prose writers in New York -- Everything glitters -- Lightscapes -- Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 1 -- "Sun came from the South" -- Contrasting domestic lightscapes -- Four types of lightscapes -- Religion and metaphysics (1500-1870) -- The celestial lightscape reaches the Earth -- Rhetoric and poetic creativity (1600 to the present) -- Self-promoting lightscapes -- Lightscapes of cognition (1750-1925) -- Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 2 -- "I am longing for Italy" -- The new literary lightscape -- From the touristic gaze to the escapist illusion -- Individualized lightscapes -- Existential changes -- Escapist dreams -- Cosmologies -- The sea and the city -- Qualities of light -- Forest-light to field-light -- The presence of past light -- Shadow lands -- Glocalizing the light of Norwg-West -- Inner light -- The light of labor -- Regio Norwg-West, picts takat fra ofven -- Light -- Millenniumscapes -- New Nordic -- At the margins of the welfare state -- Beyond literary place -- Toxic places -- Place and the nation -- The atomic age and the vision of the global -- Chernobyl in the Nordic spatial imagination -- Toxicity and the lost pastoral. Toxicity and a globalized sense of place -- Toxicity and invisible geographies -- Pollution and place -- This site is under construction -- Imagined communities and planned regions -- Negotiating national boundaries in the novel -- Bridging the binational binary -- The Øresund as global nexus -- Øresund noir: Bron/Broen -- The ephemerality of the region -- Epilogue -- Cathartic moments or spatial liberty -- Fiction -- Gameplay -- 'Hamlet' revisited -- Caterpillar and self-reference -- Playability: Closing remarks -- Introduction -- Settling -- "And the two shall become one flesh" -- Taking land and claiming place in Nordic migrant literature -- Emigration and immigration narratives -- Contemporary migrant literature -- Conclusion -- Radical utopianism among Nordic immigrant authors -- Dwelling -- Dwelling as captivity -- The rise of children's literature -- Rural dwelling and the rise of tourism -- Seasonal secondary dwellings -- Acknowledgements -- "Worker ants on the lush bosom of Earth" -- Well-ordered households and daily routines -- Hard life and bohemian lifestyle in small cabins -- Separation from agrarian time-space -- Contemporary nostalgia for the agrarian way of life -- By land, by sea, by air, by mind -- "Tehkös liitto, lintuseni" / Let us strike a bargain, little bird -- "Flyttfåglarne" / Birds of passage -- Ruoktu Váimmus / Trekways of the Wind -- "Tid: en sång om Trojas murar" / Time: A song about the walls of Troy -- Conclusion -- Exploring -- Explorers of the Grand Tour -- The literary Arctic -- Portraying the journey to the pole -- Nansen's Greenland expedition -- The polar avant garde -- Explorers as authors -- Hybrid genres -- Dislocation and identity formation in the work of Isak Dinesen -- Absorbing places and the triumph of modernity -- Northern bound -- Sacralizing -- Landscapes of power. Sacralized space in Nordic oral literature -- The literary uses of liminal space -- The rise of nationalism -- Multiethnic challenges -- Postcolonial Challenges -- Niðaróss cathedral -- Nation and sacrifice -- Søren Kierkegaard's 'Frygt og Bæven' -- Henrik Ibsen's 'Brand' -- Dag Solstad's 'Armand V.': Fotnoter til en uutgravd roman -- Kirsten Hammann's 'En dråbe i havet' -- Legend and liminality -- Liminality -- Worlding -- Fishing for meaning on the Deatnu River -- De-framing the indigenous body -- Embracing "the mongrel" -- Landscape, memory, and culture -- Re-framing/De-framing the colonial representation -- "Arctic hysteria" -- Family albums -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Works cited -- Location index -- Person index. This volume devotes its attention to the changing literary figurations of space by Nordic writers from medieval to contemporary times. The productive historical contingency of the "North" as a literary space becomes clear in this close analysis of its literary texts and practices. Scandinavian literature History and criticism. Littérature scandinave Histoire et critique. LITERARY CRITICISM European German. bisacsh Scandinavian literature fast Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast Sondrup, Steven P., editor. Sandberg, Mark B., 1958- editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002011120 DuBois, Thomas A. (Thomas Andrew), 1960- editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95033336 Ringgaard, Dan, editor. has work: Spatial nodes Nordic literature: a comparative history Volume I (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGXJwBrG7VTdQJjbvC9CPP https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Nordic literature Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017 9789027234681 (DLC) 2017022878 Comparative history of literatures in European languages ; v. 30. 0238-0668 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42036202 |
| spellingShingle | Nordic literature : a comparative history / Comparative history of literatures in European languages ; Intro -- NORDIC LITERATURE: A COMPARATIVE HISTORY VOLUME I: SPATIAL NODES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- List of figures -- Preface -- General project introduction -- Is there such a place as Scandinavia? -- Language and region -- Region as an explanatory space -- The framework -- The concept of place -- Place and literature -- Place and region -- Scapes and practices -- The aim of the framework -- Scapes -- Landscapes -- Fourteenth century and on: Looking back from landscape -- Mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth century: The emergence of landscape -- Nineteenth century: The dissemination of landscape -- Late nineteenth to early twentieth century: Inhabiting the landscape -- Twentieth century: Beneath, above, and beyond landscape -- Non-Nordic landscape -- Point of contact -- The domain of Bárður Snæfellsás -- Snæfellsjökull from afar -- Snæfellsjökull as medium -- A guide to Gurre, temporary landscape -- Utopias as territories of Swedish modernism -- Prelude: Two utopias in classic Scandinavian literature -- Urbs, the utopian global city of Ludvig Nordström -- The utopia of the planetary nomad of Harry Martinson -- The cosmic dystopia of Martinson -- The metachronic dystopia of Karin Boye -- Shipping: Heterotopias and the reterritorialization of modernism -- Jutland and the West Coast as liminal spaces in Danish literature -- Denmark's imagined geography -- Blicher's Jutland -- Hans Christian Andersen and the West Coast -- Goldschmidt: A Jewish writer's Danish travels -- On the point -- The disillusion of the Danish Dream -- The postcolonial West Coast -- "Far higher mountains" -- Ascent -- On the hill: The self and the landscape -- On the mountaintop: The self and the sublime -- Poems of homesickness and longing -- Songs about the homeland and national anthems -- Descent. South of the South -- Hans Christian Andersen in the Grotta Azzurra -- Fersen: Decadent Capri -- Munthe: Capri paradise -- Paradise lost -- Waterscapes -- Medieval mapping: Landnámabók þeiri -- Baroque topography: Nordlands trompet -- Going inland: Finnish lakes -- Archipelagos and islands -- At sea -- Modernist techniques: Östersjöar -- The tale of a thousand lakes -- Lakes and other literary waterscapes -- What one can do with lakes in literature -- Lakes as national symbols -- Erotic tensions on the lake -- Spiritual lakes -- Rewriting lake scenes -- The island in Nordic literature -- Archipelago -- Emilie Flygare-Carlén's 'Rosen på Tistelön': Crime and punishment in the archipelago -- August Strindberg's 'I havsbandet': The creative intellect and its defeat -- John Ajvide Lindqvist's 'Människohamn': Loss, love, and faith -- Distance and threat: The city and the archipelago -- The archipelago as liminal space -- There must be a periphery -- Far away in the north: J. H. O. Djurhuus -- Dano-Faroese literature -- Paper boat in rough waters -- "Far out in an ocean" -- Gunnar Hoydal: A rooted cosmopolitan -- Conclusion -- The seven seas -- Sea histories -- Erasure and artistic archaeology -- Sea, ship, sailor -- Domestic life and maritime life -- Antagonism -- Compromise -- Re-enchantment -- Cityscapes -- The urban novel -- Cityscape as lightscape -- Cityscape as wordscape -- Beyond the Nordic cityscape -- Through the land of 'lagom' in literature -- "A charming and remarkable intermediate!" -- "A town under this town" -- "A kick that shattered the glass and broke the frame" -- "Though so like Paris..." -- "One of the most beautifully located small cities in Sweden" -- "What is a pane of glass in this world?" -- A city awakens -- The student novel -- The city walker -- Helsinki in the mist -- The Great Strike and the Viapori Rebellion. A kaleidoscopic city novel -- Conclusion -- Walking the city -- The didactic traveler -- The journalist -- The revolutionary -- The spiritual wanderer -- The vagabond -- The bohemian -- The sexual woman -- The worker -- The 'flâneur' revisited -- The limits of the unlimited -- The history-accumulator -- The making of Berlin (1800-70) -- The modern metropolis: Berlin as a parvenu (1870/71-1914/18) -- Fascinating excesses, enchanting order (1914/18-1944) -- Cold wars (1945-89) -- Berlin as a 'lieu de mémoire' (1989/90-2010) -- Poets in New York -- City of sun and dreams -- Between anachronism and synchronism -- The howl from America -- City of the body -- Prose writers in New York -- Everything glitters -- Lightscapes -- Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 1 -- "Sun came from the South" -- Contrasting domestic lightscapes -- Four types of lightscapes -- Religion and metaphysics (1500-1870) -- The celestial lightscape reaches the Earth -- Rhetoric and poetic creativity (1600 to the present) -- Self-promoting lightscapes -- Lightscapes of cognition (1750-1925) -- Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 2 -- "I am longing for Italy" -- The new literary lightscape -- From the touristic gaze to the escapist illusion -- Individualized lightscapes -- Existential changes -- Escapist dreams -- Cosmologies -- The sea and the city -- Qualities of light -- Forest-light to field-light -- The presence of past light -- Shadow lands -- Glocalizing the light of Norwg-West -- Inner light -- The light of labor -- Regio Norwg-West, picts takat fra ofven -- Light -- Millenniumscapes -- New Nordic -- At the margins of the welfare state -- Beyond literary place -- Toxic places -- Place and the nation -- The atomic age and the vision of the global -- Chernobyl in the Nordic spatial imagination -- Toxicity and the lost pastoral. Toxicity and a globalized sense of place -- Toxicity and invisible geographies -- Pollution and place -- This site is under construction -- Imagined communities and planned regions -- Negotiating national boundaries in the novel -- Bridging the binational binary -- The Øresund as global nexus -- Øresund noir: Bron/Broen -- The ephemerality of the region -- Epilogue -- Cathartic moments or spatial liberty -- Fiction -- Gameplay -- 'Hamlet' revisited -- Caterpillar and self-reference -- Playability: Closing remarks -- Introduction -- Settling -- "And the two shall become one flesh" -- Taking land and claiming place in Nordic migrant literature -- Emigration and immigration narratives -- Contemporary migrant literature -- Conclusion -- Radical utopianism among Nordic immigrant authors -- Dwelling -- Dwelling as captivity -- The rise of children's literature -- Rural dwelling and the rise of tourism -- Seasonal secondary dwellings -- Acknowledgements -- "Worker ants on the lush bosom of Earth" -- Well-ordered households and daily routines -- Hard life and bohemian lifestyle in small cabins -- Separation from agrarian time-space -- Contemporary nostalgia for the agrarian way of life -- By land, by sea, by air, by mind -- "Tehkös liitto, lintuseni" / Let us strike a bargain, little bird -- "Flyttfåglarne" / Birds of passage -- Ruoktu Váimmus / Trekways of the Wind -- "Tid: en sång om Trojas murar" / Time: A song about the walls of Troy -- Conclusion -- Exploring -- Explorers of the Grand Tour -- The literary Arctic -- Portraying the journey to the pole -- Nansen's Greenland expedition -- The polar avant garde -- Explorers as authors -- Hybrid genres -- Dislocation and identity formation in the work of Isak Dinesen -- Absorbing places and the triumph of modernity -- Northern bound -- Sacralizing -- Landscapes of power. Sacralized space in Nordic oral literature -- The literary uses of liminal space -- The rise of nationalism -- Multiethnic challenges -- Postcolonial Challenges -- Niðaróss cathedral -- Nation and sacrifice -- Søren Kierkegaard's 'Frygt og Bæven' -- Henrik Ibsen's 'Brand' -- Dag Solstad's 'Armand V.': Fotnoter til en uutgravd roman -- Kirsten Hammann's 'En dråbe i havet' -- Legend and liminality -- Liminality -- Worlding -- Fishing for meaning on the Deatnu River -- De-framing the indigenous body -- Embracing "the mongrel" -- Landscape, memory, and culture -- Re-framing/De-framing the colonial representation -- "Arctic hysteria" -- Family albums -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Works cited -- Location index -- Person index. Scandinavian literature History and criticism. Littérature scandinave Histoire et critique. LITERARY CRITICISM European German. bisacsh Scandinavian literature fast |
| title | Nordic literature : a comparative history / |
| title_auth | Nordic literature : a comparative history / |
| title_exact_search | Nordic literature : a comparative history / |
| title_full | Nordic literature : a comparative history / general editors: Steven P. Sondrup and Mark B. Sandberg. |
| title_fullStr | Nordic literature : a comparative history / general editors: Steven P. Sondrup and Mark B. Sandberg. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nordic literature : a comparative history / general editors: Steven P. Sondrup and Mark B. Sandberg. |
| title_short | Nordic literature : |
| title_sort | nordic literature a comparative history |
| title_sub | a comparative history / |
| topic | Scandinavian literature History and criticism. Littérature scandinave Histoire et critique. LITERARY CRITICISM European German. bisacsh Scandinavian literature fast |
| topic_facet | Scandinavian literature History and criticism. Littérature scandinave Histoire et critique. LITERARY CRITICISM European German. Scandinavian literature Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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