Nordic Literature
A comparative history
Volume I: Spatial nodes
Nordic Literature: A comparative history is a multi-volume comparative analysis of the literature of the Nordic region. Bringing together the literature of Finland, continental Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Sápmi), and the insular region (Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands), each volume of this three-volume project adopts a new frame through which one can recognize and analyze significant clusters of literary practice. This first volume, Spatial nodes, devotes its attention to the changing literary figurations of space by Nordic writers from medieval to contemporary times. Organized around the depiction of various “scapes” and spatial practices at home and abroad, this approach to Nordic literature stretches existing notions of temporally linear, nationally centered literary history and allows questions of internal regional similarities and differences to emerge more strongly. The productive historical contingency of the “North” as a literary space becomes clear in this close analysis of its literary texts and practices.
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXI] 2017. xvi, 747 pp.
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© John Benjamins B.V. / Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée
Table of Contents
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List of contributors | pp. ix–x
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List of figures | pp. xi–xiv
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Preface | pp. xv–xvi
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General project introductionSteven P. Sondrup and Mark B. Sandberg | pp. 1–18
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The framework: Spatial nodesDan Ringgaard and Thomas A. DuBois | pp. 19–29
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Scapes
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LandscapesDan Ringgaard | pp. 33–42
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Point of contact: The intricacies of SnæfellsjökullÁstráður Eysteinsson | pp. 43–55
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A guide to Gurre, temporary landscapeJan Rosiek | pp. 56–69
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Utopias as territories of Swedish modernismSylvain Briens | pp. 70–79
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Jutland and the West Coast as liminal spaces in Danish literatureWolfgang Behschnitt | pp. 80–94
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“Far higher mountains”: Mountains in Danish and Norwegian romantic poetryLouise Mønster | pp. 95–108
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South of the South: Literary CapriArne Melberg | pp. 109–122
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WaterscapesDan Ringgaard | pp. 123–129
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The tale of a thousand lakesPirjo Lyytikäinen | pp. 130–145
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The island in Nordic literatureLisbeth P. Wærp | pp. 146–162
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ArchipelagoHenrik Johnsson | pp. 163–172
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There must be a peripheryBergur Rønne Moberg | pp. 173–185
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The seven seas: Maritime modernity in Nordic literatureSøren Frank | pp. 186–200
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CityscapesDan Ringgaard | pp. 201–207
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Through the land of lagom in literature: Passing small towns in middle SwedenAnna Smedberg Bondesson | pp. 208–219
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A city awakens: Literary Helsinki at the turn of the twentieth centuryLieven Ameel | pp. 220–233
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Walking the city: Female pedestriansTone Selboe | pp. 234–246
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The limits of the unlimited: Gunnar Björling’s wordscapeAnders Olsson | pp. 247–261
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The history-accumulator: Berlin as a foreign metropolisThomas Mohnike | pp. 262–274
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Poets in New YorkAnne-Marie Mai | pp. 275–288
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LightscapesDan Ringgaard | pp. 289–290
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Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 1: The imaginary elsewhereSvend Erik Larsen | pp. 291–313
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Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 2: The geographic elsewhereSvend Erik Larsen | pp. 314–337
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Qualities of light: Interfacing lightscapes in Eino Leino, Hella Wuolijoki, and Arvid MörnePia Maria Ahlbäck | pp. 338–347
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Glocalizing the light of Norwg-West: From inner light to the light of laborPer Thomas Andersen | pp. 348–360
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MillenniumscapesDan Ringgaard | pp. 361–365
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Toxic places: Chernobyl and a sense of place in Nordic literatureChristopher Oscarson | pp. 366–380
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This site is under construction: Mediating the Øresund region around the millenniumC. Claire Thomson and Pei-Sze Chow | pp. 381–394
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Cathartic moments or spatial liberty: Variations of the interplay between fiction, play, and place in computer gamesBo Kampmann Walther | pp. 395–407
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Practices
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Introduction: Practices of placeThomas A. DuBois
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SettlingThomas A. DuBois | pp. 413–419
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“And the two shall become one flesh”: Forging familial ties to the New Land in Nordic-American immigrant literatureJulie K. Allen | pp. 420–431
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Taking land and claiming place in Nordic migrant literatureIngeborg Kongslien | pp. 432–444
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Radical utopianism among Nordic immigrant authorsThomas A. DuBois | pp. 445–454
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DwellingThomas A. DuBois | pp. 455–477
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Seasonal secondary dwellingsEllen Rees | pp. 478–485
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“Worker ants on the lush bosom of Earth”: Cyclic patterns of life in the Finnish countrysideLeena Kaunonen | pp. 486–501
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By land, by sea, by air, by mind: Traversing externally internally via the trope of the bird in Finnish and Swedish poetryKjerstin Moody | pp. 502–518
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ExploringThomas A. DuBois | pp. 519–529
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The literary ArcticHenning Howlid Wærp | pp. 530–554
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Dislocation and identity formation in the work of Isak DinesenSusan C. Brantly | pp. 555–561
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Absorbing places and the triumph of modernity: Hans Christian AndersenKarin Sanders | pp. 562–571
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Northern bound: Exploring and colonizing the Nordic Far NorthThomas A. DuBois | pp. 572–586
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SacralizingThomas A. DuBois | pp. 585–602
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Niðaróss cathedralSteven P. Sondrup | pp. 603–614
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Nation and sacrifice: Abraham and Isaac in modern Scandinavian literatureElisabeth Oxfeldt | pp. 615–627
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Legend and liminalityTimothy R. Tangherlini | pp. 628–640
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Liminality: The uncanny bogKarin Sanders | pp. 641–650
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WorldingTroy Storfjell | pp. 651–661
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Fishing for meaning on the Deatnu River: Sámi salmon harvesters, tourist anglers, and the negotiation of placeTim Frandy | pp. 662–671
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De-framing the indigenous body: Ethnography, landscape, and cultural belonging in the art of Pia ArkeKirsten Thisted | pp. 672–685
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Works cited | pp. 687–733
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Location index | pp. 735–740
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Person index | pp. 741–747
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Nordic Literature: A comparative history. Volume I: Spatial nodes makes a powerful argument not only for the importance of Nordic literature to comparative literary studies as a whole, but also for the high-caliber, comparative Nordic literary scholarship that experts in the field are producing today.”
Ursula Lindqvist, Gustavus Adolphus College, in Recherche littéraire/Literary Research Vol. 35 (Fall 2019)
“
Nordic Literature: A comparative history. Volume I: Spatial nodes makes a powerful argument not only for the importance of Nordic literature to comparative literary studies as a whole, but also for the high-caliber, comparative Nordic literary scholarship that experts in the field are producing today.”
Ursula Lindqvist, Gustavus Adolphus College (US), in Recherche littéraire/Literary Research (vol. 35, fall 2019)
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Subjects
Literature & Literary Studies
Main BIC Subject
DSB: Literary studies: general
Main BISAC Subject
LIT004250: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Scandinavian