Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> European - Scandinavian

Die Festschrift prasentiert 19 Beitrage, die in ihrer thematischen Weite dem breiten Spektrum der wissenschaftlichen Betatigung Otmar Werners entsprechen: Orthographie und Schriftwandel, Runen; Beitrage zum Inselnordischen (Islandisch, Faroisch); kontrastive Linguistik Deutsch - Skandinavisch; linguistische Beschreibung des Deutschen von der Phonologie, Morphologie, Syntax, Dialektologie bis zur Pragmatik; Fragen der allgemeinen Sprach(wandel)theorie, Sprachgeschichte und Onomastik Skandinaviens; mittelalterliche skandinavische Literatur. Ein vollstandiges Schriftenverzeichnis des Jubilars...

This volume engages critically with the recent and ongoing consolidation of "world literature" as a paradigm of study. On the basis of an extended, active, and ultimately more literary sense of what it means to institute world literature, it views processes of institutionalization not as limitations, but as challenges to understand how literature may simultaneously function as an enabling and exclusionary world of its own. It starts from the observation that literature is never simply a given, but is always performatively and materially instituted by translators,...

Julie Allen utilizes the lives and friendship of the Danish literary critic George Brandes (1842-1927) and the silent film star Asta Nielsen (1881-1972) to explore questions of culture and national identity in early twentieth-century Denmark. Danish culture and politics were influenced in this period by the country's deeply ambivalent relationship with Germany. Brandes and Nielsen, both of whom lived and worked in Germany for significant periods of time, were seen as dangerously cosmopolitan by the Danish public, even while they served as international cultural ambassadors for the very...

Kierkegaards NB-Journale aus der Zeit von Juli 1848 bis Mai 1849 bieten autobiographische Berichte (etwa uber die Gesprache mit Konig Christian VIII.), philosophisch-theologische Reflexionen, eine sich zunehmend radikalisierende Zeitkritik sowie werkbezogene Kommentare - und gewahren Einblick in Kierkegaards Selbstvergewisserung zwischen Schriftstellerexistenz und Martyrium.

In The Sagas of Norwegian Kings (1130 1265), Theodore M. Andersson offers an orientation to the category of Icelandic sagas known as "kings' sagas," a genre of Old Norse-Icelandic prose literature less known than the somewhat later sagas of early Icelanders and their extended families. The kings'-saga genre culminated in three compendia that appeared prior to 1250: the manuscripts Morkinskinna and Fagrskinna and the compilation of sagas known as Heimskringla. These remarkable sagas are among the most readable of European chronicles. Theodore M. Andersson...