Exploring NORDIC COOL in literary history /edited by Gunilla Hermansson, University of Gothenburg ; Jens Lohfert Jørgensen, Aalborg University.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction / Gunilla Hermansson and Jens Lohfert Jørgensen -- Travels in the cold zone / Henning Howlid Wærp -- Nordic polar heroes : the critical potential of literary history / Lars Handesten -- Serious playfulness? Philippe Guicheteau's Sunday letters from Finland / Heidi Grönstrand -- The cultural memory of circumpolar survival / Sissel Furuseth -- At home in the wilderness : Gunnar Gunnarsson's Advent / Jón Yngvi Jóhannsson -- Weather as human space in Harald Voetmann's Alt under månen / Dan Ringgaard -- Deco(o)lonising white femininity? Of goddesses and silkworms in Karin Boye's Astarte / Therese Svensson -- Indigenous cool : performativity and place-making in Sami literature, art and music / Anne Heith -- The coolness of Nordic science in Fin-de-Siècle Latin-American literary imagination / Andrea Castro -- Erotic reason and female desire in Maria Jotuni and Elin Wägner / Katarina Leppänen and Kukku Melkas -- Cool love and economics in Herman Bang's Stuk / Signe Leth Gammelgaard -- The sublime North : Iceland as an artistic discourse originating in the nineteenth century / Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson -- The attraction of Nordic freshness : melancholy, eroticism, and health in "Vårvindar friska" / Gunilla Hermansson -- Rebranding "the North" : Swedish novelist Fredrika Bremer's sudden American success in the 1840s / Åsa Arping -- Standing cool against sword, spears and suffering / Per Thomas Andersen -- Cool apathy : approaches to the emotional life of Leonora Christina's Jammers Minde / Jens Lohfert Jørgensen -- Queen Christina's coolness / Carin Franzén -- Who can write sensible books in weather like this? Carl August Thielo as experimental eighteenth-century novelist / Simona Zetterberg Gjerlevsen -- Passionately cool : concrete poetry in Denmark / Tania Orum -- Digital astro-evolution and ecological thinking in Johannes Heldén's Astroecology / 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"--

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