Scandinavia Through Sunglasses: Spaces of Cultural Exchange Between Southern/Southeastern Europe and Nordic Countries

ISBN-13: 9783631791608 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 242 str.

Elizaveta Khachaturyan;Alvaro Llosa Sanz

Opis

How do the North and the South see each other? How have their images been created? How do they change across time, space and source? Here are the main questions that the authors would like to answer in this collection of imagology-oriented studies situated at the crossroads of various disciplines: South-North in literature, South-North in other cultural production, and South-North in new perspectives. The contributions show in which way the creation and relationships among the images of the South and North are interpreted and modelled by different intermediators through different sources. The journey starts with literary texts, their translations and reception; and continues across the description of theatre spaces, speeches and musical forms, to conclude with studies based on online sources and interviews.

Spis treści

Sweden in the Eyes of the Southern European Reader: translation and reception of Swedish fiction in Greece and Spain between 2000 and 2017 (Ingela Johansson and Marianna Smaragdi) - Imitation, Inertia, and Innovation: The Selection of Italian Literature for Translation into Danish (Hanne Jansen) - Translating Swedish realia of Annika Thor's En ö i havet. (Giorgia D'Aprile Østvær) - Nordic Modernity, Nordic Feminism and Ibsen in the Spanish Silver Age (Iris Muñiz) - Images from the North: Scandinavia as a boreal place in Cervantes (Alvaro Llosa Sanz) - A «dissolute» Swedish woman in Sicily. The character of Ingrid Sjostrom in the Montalbano series by Camilleri (Ida Caiazza) - The Southener as Hero: Henrik Angell's Heroic Image of Montenegrins and Serbs (Svein Mønnesland) - From Scandinavia to Poland through Italy and then back again - Eugenio Barba and Odin Teatret as an intercultural medium (Karolina Drozdowska) - Le Villi by Giacomo Puccini: transfiguration of a myth (Gaia Palesati) - Norwegian 'Polar Vikings' and their influence on the Polish discourse of Arctic exploration in the interwar period (Agata Lubowicka ) - From Heaven to Hell and Back: Representations of Scandinavia in South Slavic Online Sources (Ljiljana Saric and Natasa Ristivojevic-Rajkovic) - Norway seen from a Portuguese vantage point - there and here (Ana Rita Ferreira and Diana Santos) - Workers, tourists and migrants. Examples of language barriers and coping strategies among inhabitants in Alicante (Ann Elisabeth Laksfoss Cardozo) - Discourses about education: Norwegian universities seen by Italian academic staff (Elizaveta Khachaturyan)

O autorze

Elizaveta Khachaturyan is Associate Professor of Italian Language and Linguistics at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her main research field is spoken language and semantic analysis, as well as multilingual communication and multiculturalism. She works on discourse markers, verbs, language acquisition, and national identity.

Álvaro Llosa Sanz is Associate Professor of Spanish Language and Literatures at the University of Oslo, Norway. His areas of interest include Golden Age Spanish literature and culture, memory and rhetoric, multimodality and transmedia, reading and media studies and material culture applied to fiction.