Bjarnadóttir, Birna, 1961-

Recesses of the mind : aesthetics in the work of Guðbergur Bergsson / Birna Bjarnadóttir ; translated by Kristjana Gunnars. - Montreal [Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2012. (Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2012). - 1 online resource (xv, 298 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Aesthetics in Modern Literature: The Mind�s Tormented Love -- 2 Fragments from the History of Aesthetics in Iceland -- 3 The Human Image during the Formative Phases of Christianity and in the Era of the Dizzying Void -- 4 Participation in Beauty -- 5 When Paradoxes Are Allowed to Unfold -- 6 The Roots of Individual Aesthetics: On the Creative Boundaries between Life and Art -- 7 Dialogue with Icelandic Culture and Society -- Epilogue: Consecration to Reality Appendix 1 “Ideas on Beauty�Appendix 2 Flatey-Freyr -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W

A detailed discussion of the aesthetics of Icelandic novelist and poet Guðbergur Bergsson.



9780773586680 9780773586697


Guðbergur Bergsson, 1932- --Criticism and interpretation.
Guðbergur Bergsson, 1932- --Aesthetics.


Icelandic literature--History and criticism.
Aesthetics in literature.
Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.
Aesthetics, Modern.


Electronic Books.

PT7511 / .R434 2012