Nordic Literature

A comparative history

Volume I: Spatial nodes

Editors

Steven P. Sondrup

| Brigham Young University

Mark B. Sandberg

| UCLA at Berkeley

Thomas A. DuBois

| University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dan Ringgaard

| Aarhus University

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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.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xxxi

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix–x
List of figures	xi–xiv
Preface	xv–xvi
General project introduction Steven P. Sondrup and Mark B. Sandberg	1–18
The framework: Spatial nodes Dan Ringgaard and Thomas A. DuBois	19–29
Scapes
Landscapes Dan Ringgaard	33–42
Point of contact: The intricacies of Snæfellsjökull Astradur Eysteinsson	43–55
A guide to Gurre, temporary landscape Jan Rosiek	56–69
Utopias as territories of Swedish modernism Sylvain Briens	70–79
Jutland and the West Coast as liminal spaces in Danish literature Wolfgang Behschnitt	80–94
“Far higher mountains” Mountains in Danish and Norwegian romantic poetry Louise Mønster	95–108
South of the South: Literary Capri Arne Melberg	109–122
Waterscapes Dan Ringgaard	123–129
The tale of a thousand lakes Pirjo Lyytikäinen	130–145
The island in Nordic literature Lisbeth P. Wærp	146–162
Archipelago Henrik Johnsson	163–172
There must be a periphery Bergur Rønne Moberg	173–185
The seven seas: Maritime modernity in Nordic literature Søren Frank	186–200
Cityscapes Dan Ringgaard	201–207
Through the land of lagom in literature: Passing small towns in middle Sweden Anna Smedberg Bondesson	208–219
A city awakens: Literary Helsinki at the turn of the twentieth century Lieven Ameel	220–233
Walking the city: Female pedestrians Tone Selboe	234–246
The limits of the unlimited: Gunnar Björling’s wordscape Anders Olsson	247–261
The history-accumulator: Berlin as a foreign metropolis Thomas Mohnike	262–274
Poets in New York Anne-Marie Mai	275–288
Lightscapes Dan Ringgaard	289–290
Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 1: The imaginary elsewhere Svend Erik Larsen	291–313
Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 2: The geographic elsewhere Svend Erik Larsen	314–337
Qualities of light: Interfacing lightscapes in Eino Leino, Hella Wuolijoki, and Arvid Mörne Pia Maria Ahlbäck	338–347
Glocalizing the light of Norwg-West: From inner light to the light of labor Per Thomas Andersen	348–360
Millenniumscapes Dan Ringgaard	361–365
Toxic places: Chernobyl and a sense of place in Nordic literature Christopher Oscarson	366–380
This site is under construction: Mediating the Øresund region around the millennium C. Claire Thomson and Pei-Sze Chow	381–394
Cathartic moments or spatial liberty: Variations of the interplay between fiction, play, and place in computer games Bo Kampmann Walther	395–407
Practices
Introduction	411–412
Settling Thomas A. DuBois	413–419
“And the two shall become one flesh” Forging familial ties to the New Land in Nordic-American immigrant literature Julie K. Allen	420–431
Taking land and claiming place in Nordic migrant literature Ingeborg Kongslien	432–444
Radical utopianism among Nordic immigrant authors Thomas A. DuBois	445–454
Dwelling Thomas A. DuBois	455–477
Seasonal secondary dwellings Ellen Rees	478–485
“Worker ants on the lush bosom of Earth” Cyclic patterns of life in the Finnish countryside Leena Kaunonen	486–501
By land, by sea, by air, by mind: Traversing externally internally via the trope of the bird in Finnish and Swedish poetry Kjerstin Moody	502–518
Exploring Thomas A. DuBois	519–529
The literary Arctic Henning Howlid Wærp	530–554
Dislocation and identity formation in the work of Isak Dinesen Susan C. Brantly	555–561
Absorbing places and the triumph of modernity: Hans Christian Andersen Karin Sanders	562–571
Northern bound: Exploring and colonizing the Nordic Far North Thomas A. DuBois	572–586
Sacralizing Thomas A. DuBois	585–602
Niðaróss cathedral Steven P. Sondrup	603–614
Nation and sacrifice: Abraham and Isaac in modern Scandinavian literature Elisabeth Oxfeldt	615–627
Legend and liminality Timothy R. Tangherlini	628–640
Liminality: The uncanny bog Karin Sanders	641–650
Worlding Troy Storfjell	651–661
Fishing for meaning on the Deatnu River: Sámi salmon harvesters, tourist anglers, and the negotiation of place Tim Frandy	662–671
De-framing the indigenous body: Ethnography, landscape, and cultural belonging in the art of Pia Arke Kirsten Thisted	672–685
Works cited	687–733
Location index	735–740
Person index	741–747

“ 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)

Ursula Lindqvist, Gustavus Adolphus College (US), in Recherche littéraire/Literary Research (vol. 35, fall 2019)

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