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Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary History
Edited by Gunilla Hermansson and Jens Lohfert Jørgensen
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 15] 2020
► pp. 241–254

Standing cool against sword, spears and suffering

Article outline
  • The martyr legends
  • Story and affect
  • From affects to emotions
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
Published online: 1 December 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.15.15and
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