Exploring NORDIC COOL in literary history /edited by Gunilla Hermansson, University of Gothenburg ; Jens Lohfert Jørgensen, Aalborg University.
Exploring NORDIC COOL in literary history /edited by Gunilla Hermansson, University of Gothenburg ; Jens Lohfert Jørgensen, Aalborg University.
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource.
- FILLM studies in languages and literatures, volume 15 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Travels in the cold zone / Nordic polar heroes : the critical potential of literary history / Serious playfulness? Philippe Guicheteau's Sunday letters from Finland / The cultural memory of circumpolar survival / At home in the wilderness : Gunnar Gunnarsson's Advent / Weather as human space in Harald Voetmann's Alt under månen / Deco(o)lonising white femininity? Of goddesses and silkworms in Karin Boye's Astarte / Indigenous cool : performativity and place-making in Sami literature, art and music / The coolness of Nordic science in Fin-de-Siècle Latin-American literary imagination / Erotic reason and female desire in Maria Jotuni and Elin Wägner / Cool love and economics in Herman Bang's Stuk / The sublime North : Iceland as an artistic discourse originating in the nineteenth century / The attraction of Nordic freshness : melancholy, eroticism, and health in "Vårvindar friska" / Rebranding "the North" : Swedish novelist Fredrika Bremer's sudden American success in the 1840s / Standing cool against sword, spears and suffering / Cool apathy : approaches to the emotional life of Leonora Christina's Jammers Minde / Queen Christina's coolness / Who can write sensible books in weather like this? Carl August Thielo as experimental eighteenth-century novelist / Passionately cool : concrete poetry in Denmark / Digital astro-evolution and ecological thinking in Johannes Heldén's Astroecology / Gunilla Hermansson and Jens Lohfert Jørgensen -- Henning Howlid Wærp -- Lars Handesten -- Heidi Grönstrand -- Sissel Furuseth -- Jón Yngvi Jóhannsson -- Dan Ringgaard -- Therese Svensson -- Anne Heith -- Andrea Castro -- Katarina Leppänen and Kukku Melkas -- Signe Leth Gammelgaard -- Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson -- Gunilla Hermansson -- Åsa Arping -- Per Thomas Andersen -- Jens Lohfert Jørgensen -- Carin Franzén -- Simona Zetterberg Gjerlevsen -- Tania Orum -- Hans Kristian S. Rustad.
"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 aims at challenging all-too-recognisable narratives and to bring the important knowledge potential of literary historical research to the fore"--
9027260540 9789027260543
2020032623
National characteristics, Scandinavian, in literature.
Scandinavian literature--History and criticism.
Nature in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Electronic Books.
PT7073 / .E975 2020
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Travels in the cold zone / Nordic polar heroes : the critical potential of literary history / Serious playfulness? Philippe Guicheteau's Sunday letters from Finland / The cultural memory of circumpolar survival / At home in the wilderness : Gunnar Gunnarsson's Advent / Weather as human space in Harald Voetmann's Alt under månen / Deco(o)lonising white femininity? Of goddesses and silkworms in Karin Boye's Astarte / Indigenous cool : performativity and place-making in Sami literature, art and music / The coolness of Nordic science in Fin-de-Siècle Latin-American literary imagination / Erotic reason and female desire in Maria Jotuni and Elin Wägner / Cool love and economics in Herman Bang's Stuk / The sublime North : Iceland as an artistic discourse originating in the nineteenth century / The attraction of Nordic freshness : melancholy, eroticism, and health in "Vårvindar friska" / Rebranding "the North" : Swedish novelist Fredrika Bremer's sudden American success in the 1840s / Standing cool against sword, spears and suffering / Cool apathy : approaches to the emotional life of Leonora Christina's Jammers Minde / Queen Christina's coolness / Who can write sensible books in weather like this? Carl August Thielo as experimental eighteenth-century novelist / Passionately cool : concrete poetry in Denmark / Digital astro-evolution and ecological thinking in Johannes Heldén's Astroecology / Gunilla Hermansson and Jens Lohfert Jørgensen -- Henning Howlid Wærp -- Lars Handesten -- Heidi Grönstrand -- Sissel Furuseth -- Jón Yngvi Jóhannsson -- Dan Ringgaard -- Therese Svensson -- Anne Heith -- Andrea Castro -- Katarina Leppänen and Kukku Melkas -- Signe Leth Gammelgaard -- Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson -- Gunilla Hermansson -- Åsa Arping -- Per Thomas Andersen -- Jens Lohfert Jørgensen -- Carin Franzén -- Simona Zetterberg Gjerlevsen -- Tania Orum -- Hans Kristian S. Rustad.
"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 aims at challenging all-too-recognisable narratives and to bring the important knowledge potential of literary historical research to the fore"--
9027260540 9789027260543
2020032623
National characteristics, Scandinavian, in literature.
Scandinavian literature--History and criticism.
Nature in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Electronic Books.
PT7073 / .E975 2020