Cabins In Modern Norwegian Literature

Author : Ellen Rees
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611476491

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Cabins in Modern Norwegian Literature by Ellen Rees Pdf

This book examines the significance of cabins and other temporary seasonal dwellings as important symbols in modern Norwegian cultural and literary history. The author uses Michel Foucault’s notion of the “heterotopia”—an actual place that also functions imaginatively as a kind of real-world utopia—to examine how cabins have signified differently during successive periods, from an Enlightenment trope of simplicity and moderation, through the rise of tourism, into a period of increasing individualism and alienation from nature. For each period discussed, the author relates a widely recognized real world cabin to a cluster of thematically related literary texts from a wide variety of genres. Cabins in Modern Norwegian Literature considers both central canonical works, such as Camilla Collett’s The District Governor’s Daughters, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson’s Synnøve Solbakken, Henrik Ibsen’s When We Dead Awaken, and Knut Hamsun’s The Growth of the Soil, as well as less widely known literary works and texts from marginal genres such as hunting narratives and crime fiction. In addition, the book contains analyses of a few key films from the contemporary period that also activate the cabin as a motif. The central argument is that while Norwegians today tend to think of cabin culture as essentially unchanging over a long span of time, it has in fact changed dramatically over the past two hundred years, and that it is an extremely rich and complex cultural phenomenon deeply imbedded in the construction of national identity.

Author : Per Esben Svelstad
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031560309

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Same-Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature, 1908–1979 by Per Esben Svelstad Pdf

Author : Einar Odd Mortensen Sr.
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772126143

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The Fur Trader by Einar Odd Mortensen Sr. Pdf

The Fur Trader is a critical edition of Einar Odd Mortensen Sr.’s personal narrative detailing the years (1925–1928) he spent as a free trader at posts in Pine Bluff and Oxford Lake in Manitoba during the waning days of the fur trade. Mortensen’s original narrative has been translated from Norwegian to English, and supplemented with a scholarly introduction, thorough annotations, a bibliography, and a reading guide. This additional material presents the author as a product of Norwegian culture at the time, and guides the reader through a close reading of Mortensen’s interpretations of his work and travels, the people he encountered, the Indian Residential School system, and Indigenous participation in the First World War. Mortensen’s insights and experiences will be of interest to scholars, students, and enthusiasts of the fur trade and contribute to literary, Indigenous, and Scandinavian studies.

Author : Terje Leiren,Jan Sjåvik
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538123126

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Historical Dictionary of Norway by Terje Leiren,Jan Sjåvik Pdf

Norway has a thousand year history from the Vikings (750-1100) to modern times. Historically, a poor country on Europe’s periphery, its natural resources and hardy people have established a successful modern welfare state. Norway has exploited its natural resources of fish, water, oil, and gas to become one of Europe’s most successful small states. This second edition of I contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Norway.

Author : Robert Ferguson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786696755

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The Cabin in the Mountains by Robert Ferguson Pdf

The wooden holiday cabin, or hytte, is a staple of Norwegian life. Robert Ferguson, author of Scandinavians, explores the significance of a national icon in this charming, affectionate history. Turf-roofed and wooden-built, offering fresh air, breathtaking views and peaceful isolation, the wooden cabin home – or hytte – is a crucial part of Norwegian national identity. In 2016, Robert Ferguson and his wife bought a piece of land high up in the Hardangervidda, and on it they built a cabin. As the cabin takes shape, Ferguson learns how native Norwegians have married a new-found urban affluence to their past as a tight-knit rural community-nation, and confronts his own ideas about the dream-tradition of the hytte, drawing an affectionate but unsentimental portrait of Norwegian culture, society and landscape. 'Singular and captivating: the pursuit of a dream' Professor John Carey 'Illuminating' TLS 'An uncompromising journey into the dark cold north, to reveal the warmth that comes from deep community bonds' Tim Ecott

Author : Steven P. Sondrup,Mark B. Sandberg,Thomas A. DuBois,Dan Ringgaard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027265050

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Nordic Literature by Steven P. Sondrup,Mark B. Sandberg,Thomas A. DuBois,Dan Ringgaard Pdf

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.

Author : Brian W. Downs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1966-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521048545

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Modern Norwegian Literature 1860-1918 by Brian W. Downs Pdf

Originally published in 1966, this general survey of the 'classic' period of Norwegian literature was the first book in English devoted entirely to the period.

Author : Kris Van Heuckelom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030042189

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Polish Migrants in European Film 1918–2017 by Kris Van Heuckelom Pdf

This study explores the representation of international migration on screen and how it has gained prominence and salience in European filmmaking over the past 100 years. Using Polish migration as a key example due to its long-standing cultural resonance across the continent, this book moves beyond a director-oriented approach and beyond the dominant focus on postcolonial migrant cinemas. It succeeds in being both transnational and longitudinal by including a diverse corpus of more than 150 films from some twenty different countries, of which Roman Polański’s The Tenant, Jean-Luc Godard’s Passion and Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Trois couleurs: Blanc are the best-known examples. Engaging with contemporary debates on modernisation and Europeanisation, the author proposes the notion of “close Otherness” to delineate the liminal position of fictional characters with a Polish background. Polish Migrants in European Film 1918-2017 takes the reader through a wide range of genres, from interwar musicals to Cold War defection films; from communist-era exile right up to the contemporary moment. It is suitable for scholars interested in European or Slavic studies, as well as anyone who is interested in topics such as identity construction, ethnic representation, East-West cultural exchanges and transnationalism.

Author : Reinhard Hennig,Anna-Karin Jonasson,Peter Degerman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498561914

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Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment by Reinhard Hennig,Anna-Karin Jonasson,Peter Degerman Pdf

Many contemporary environmental risks and global environmental changes occurring today are unprecedented in the history of human life on earth. However, the images and narratives through which humans relate to these phenomena are built on existing cultural tropes and narrative models. Cultural, social, and historical contexts strongly influence how we construct images and narratives of nature and the environment. It is therefore highly important to study such narratives in works of literature, film, and other forms of cultural expression in relation to the specific circumstances from which they arise. Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment is the first English language anthology that presents ecocritical research on northern European literatures and cultures. The contributors examine specifically Nordic narratives of nature and the environment, with a focus on the cultures and literatures of the modern northern European countries Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, including Sápmi, which is the land traditionally inhabited by the indigenous Sami people. Covering northern European literatures and cultures over a period of more than two centuries, this anthology provides substantial insights into both old and new narratives of nature and the environment as well as intertextual relations, the variety of cultural traditions, and current discourses connected to the Nordic environmental imagination. Case studies relating to works of literature, film, and other media shed new light on the role of culture, history and society in the formation of narratives of nature and the environment, and offer a comprehensive and multi-faceted overview of the most recent ecocritical research in Scandinavian studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004427495

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The Culture of Boredom by Anonim Pdf

Culture of Boredom is a collection of essays by well-known specialists reflecting from philosophical, literary, and artistic perspectives. The goal is to clarify the background of boredom, and to explore its representation through forgotten cross-cutting narratives.

Author : Saija Isomaa,Kirsi Saarikangas
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443864138

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Imagining Spaces and Places by Saija Isomaa,Kirsi Saarikangas Pdf

Imagining Spaces and Places seeks to produce an interdisciplinary dialogue between art history and literature studies and other fields of cultural analysis that work with the concepts of space, place and various “scapes”, such as cityscapes, bodyscapes, mindscapes and memoryscapes, as well as the more familiar landscapes. The volume was inspired by new lines of study that underline the experiential and multidimensional aspects of spaces. We explore how art, literature or urban spaces forge “scapes” by imposing or suggesting aesthetic, evaluative or ideological orderings and perceptual as well as emotive perspectives on the “raw material” or on previous ways of spatial worldmaking. We look at the role of cultural and artistic renderings of space in relation to everyday experiences of spaces. We examine how the experiences of places are mediated in various art forms and other cultural discourses or practices and how these discourses contribute to the understanding of particular places and also to understanding space in more general terms. Imagining Spaces and Places is addressed to scholars and teachers working at the intersection of cultural and spatial analyses, as well as to their undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Author : Jan Sjåvik
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810865013

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Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater by Jan Sjåvik Pdf

The literature of Scandinavia is amazingly rich and varied, consisting of the works produced by the countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, and stretching from the ancient Norse Sagas to the present day. While much of it is unknown outside of the region, some has gained worldwide popularity, including the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, the stories of Isak Dinesen, and the plays of Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg. While obviously including the area's most famous works, the Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater also provides information on lesser known authors and currents trends, literary circles and journals, and historical background. This is accomplished through a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries, which together make this reference the most comprehensive and up to date work of its kind related to Scandinavian literature and theater available anywhere.

Author : Hanna Astrup Larsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : English fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015018631989

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Told in Norway by Hanna Astrup Larsen Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Norway
ISBN : HARVARD:HL1MKE

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News of Norway by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Ferguson
Publisher : Apollo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Log cabins
ISBN : 9781789544671

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The Cabin in the Mountains by Robert Ferguson Pdf

The wooden holiday cabin, or hytte, is a staple of Norwegian life. Robert Ferguson, author of Scandinavians, explores the significance of a national icon in this charming, affectionate history. Turf-roofed and wooden-built, offering fresh clean air, peace, isolation, and the promise of a day's wood-chopping, hiking, or snow-clearing amid landscapes of great beauty, the hytte--or wooden cabin home--is a crucial part of the national identity of every Norwegian. In 2016, Robert Ferguson and his wife bought a piece of land high up in the Hardangervidda, the plateau that dominates south-central Norway, and on it they built such a hytte. For Ferguson, the hytte represented the realisation of a dream that first brought him to Norway from England more than thirty years ago. As the cabin takes shape he learns, through conversations with friends and cabin-builders, the cultural history of modern Norway. He learns of the changing traditions attached to these cabin homes for native Norwegians as they try to marry their new-found urban affluence to their past as a tight-knit, impoverished rural community-nation. Along the way he also describes the intense and mutually rewarding relationship that arose between the colonial Norwegians and their wealthy, imperialist British neighbours across the North Sea in the 19th and 20th centuries; how the British 'salmon-lords' showed them another way of looking at their great rivers, and how English climbers introduced them to a new way of thinking about their mountains.