Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary History
Editors
| University of Gothenburg
| Aalborg University
How did Nordic culture become associated with the fuzzy brand “cool”, as by default? In Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary History twenty-one scholars in collaboration question the seemingly natural fit between “Nordic” and “Cool” by investigating its variegated trajectories through literary history, from medieval legends to digital poetry. At the same time, the elasticity and polysemy of the word “cool” become a means to explore Nordic literary history afresh. It opens up a rich diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches within a regional framework and reveals hitherto unseen links between familiar and less familiar tracks and sites. Following diverse paths of “Nordic cool” in respect to – among other things – nature, survival, love, whiteness, style, economics, heroism and colonialism, this book challenges all-too-recognisable narratives, and underlines the sheer knowledge potential of literary historical research.
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 15] 2020. xix, 342 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
Series editor’s preface
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xi
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Contributors
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xiii–xvi
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Illustrations
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xvii–xviii
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Acknowledgements
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xix
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1–18
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Part I. Cool explorers
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21–36
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37–52
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53–64
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Part II. Cool nature
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67–80
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81–96
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97–110
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Part III. Decolonising cool
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113–126
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127–142
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143–158
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Part IV. Erotic cool
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161–174
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175–188
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Part V. Branding cool
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191–204
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205–222
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223–238
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Part VI. Heroic cool
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241–254
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255–268
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269–284
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Part VII. Cool aesthetics
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287–302
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303–318
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319–336
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Index
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337–342
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Subjects
Literature & Literary Studies
BIC Subject: DSB – Literary studies: general
BISAC Subject: LIT004250 – LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Scandinavian