Nordic Literature

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

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