In:Nordic Literature: A comparative history
Edited by Steven P. Sondrup, Mark B. Sandberg, Thomas A. DuBois and Dan Ringgaard
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages XXXI] 2017
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Published online: 7 December 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xxxi.toc
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Table of contents
List of contributors
ix
List of figures
xi
Preface
xv
General project introduction
1
Steven P. Sondrup
Mark B. Sandberg
The framework: Spatial nodes
19
Dan Ringgaard
Thomas A. DuBois
Scapes
31
Landscapes
33
Dan Ringgaard
Point of contact: The intricacies of Snæfellsjökull
43
Ástráður Eysteinsson
A guide to Gurre, temporary landscape
56
Jan Rosiek
Utopias as territories of Swedish modernism
70
Sylvain Briens
Jutland and the West Coast as liminal spaces in Danish literature
80
Wolfgang Behschnitt
“Far higher mountains”: Mountains in Danish and Norwegian romantic poetry
95
Louise Mønster
South of the South: Literary Capri
109
Arne Melberg
Waterscapes
123
Dan Ringgaard
The tale of a thousand lakes
130
Pirjo Lyytikäinen
The island in Nordic literature
146
Lisbeth P. Wærp
Archipelago
163
Henrik Johnsson
There must be a periphery
173
Bergur Rønne Moberg
The Seven Seas: Maritime modernity in Nordic literature
186
Søren Frank
Cityscapes
201
Dan Ringgaard
Through the land of lagom in literature: Passing small towns in middle Sweden
208
Anna Smedberg Bondesson
A city awakens: Literary Helsinki at the turn of the twentieth Century
220
Lieven Ameel
Walking the city: Female pedestrians
234
Tone Selboe
The limits of the unlimited: Gunnar Björling’s wordscape
247
Anders Olsson
The history-accumulator: Berlin as a foreign metropolis
262
Thomas Mohnike
Poets in New York
275
Anne-Marie Mai
Lightscapes
289
Dan Ringgaard
Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 1: The imaginary elsewhere
291
Svend Erik Larsen
Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 2: The geographic elsewhere
314
Svend Erik Larsen
Qualities of light: Interfacing lightscapes in Eino Leino, Hella Wuolijoki, and Arvid Mörne
338
Pia Maria Ahlbäck
Glocalizing the light of Norwg-West: From inner light to the light of labor
348
Per Thomas Andersen
Millenniumscapes
361
Dan Ringgaard
Toxic places: Chernobyl and a sense of place in Nordic literature
366
Christopher Oscarson
This site is under construction: Mediating the Øresund region around the millennium
381
C. Claire Thomson
Pei-Sze Chow
Cathartic moments or spatial liberty: Variations of the interplay between fiction, play, and place in computer games
395
Bo Kampmann Walther
Practices
409
Introduction: Practices of place
411
Thomas A. DuBois
Settling
413
Thomas A. DuBois
“And the two shall become one flesh”: Forging familial ties to the New Land in Nordic-American immigrant literature
420
Julie K. Allen
Taking land and claiming place in Nordic migrant literature
432
Ingeborg Kongslien
Radical utopianism among Nordic immigrant authors
445
Thomas A. DuBois
Dwelling
455
Thomas A. DuBois
Seasonal secondary dwellings
478
Ellen Rees
“Worker ants on the Lush Bosom of Earth”: Cyclic patterns of life in the Finnish countryside
486
Leena Kaunonen
By land, by sea, by air, by mind: Traversing externally internally via the trope of the bird in Finnish and Swedish poetry
502
Kjerstin Moody
Exploring
519
Thomas A. DuBois
The literary Arctic
530
Henning Howlid Wærp
Dislocation and identity formation in the work of Isak Dinesen
555
Susan C. Brantly
Absorbing places and the triumph of modernity: Hans Christian Andersen
562
Karin Sanders
Northern bound: Exploring and colonizing the Nordic far north
572
Thomas A. DuBois
Sacralizing
587
Thomas A. DuBois
Niðaróss cathedral
603
Steven P. Sondrup
Nation and sacrifice: Abraham and Isaac in modern Scandinavian literature
615
Elisabeth Oxfeldt
Legend and liminality
628
Timothy Tangherlini
Liminality: The uncanny bog
641
Karin Sanders
Worlding
651
Troy Storfjell
Fishing for meaning on the Deatnu River: Sámi salmon harvesters, tourist anglers, and the negotiation of place
662
Tim Frandy
De-framing the Indigenous Body: Ethnography, landscape, and cultural belonging in the art of Pia Arke
672
Kirsten Thisted
Works cited
687
Location index
735
Person index
741
