Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> European - Scandinavian

This fine collection of essays offers a wide range of new and original perspectives on Strindberg and his relation to modern and contemporary literature. By using Strindberg as a fulcrum or spring board, the volume opens a unique and unusual historical perspective on Europe and European literature. One of the important values of "The International Strindberg" is that it will appeal to a variety of readers, since the essays cover such a diverse range of approaches. The introduction is particularly impressive because it both sets up the value of looking at Strindberg from a twenty-first...

This volume is a Nordic contribution to research on law and humanities. It treats the legal culture of the Nordic countries through intensive analyses of canonical Nordic artworks. Law and justice have always been important issues in Nordic literature, film and theater from the Icelandic sagas through Ludvig Holberg and Henrik Ibsen to Lars Norens theatre and Lars von Trier's Dogme films of today. This book strives to answer two fundamental questions: Is there a special Nordic justice? And what does the legal and literary/aesthetic culture of the North mean for the concept of law and...

When poet/critic Lars Gustafsson was the editor of Bonniers Litterara Magasin, he was bombarded with the question, "What makes a good poem?" Forays into Swedish Poetry is his answer.

The fifteen poems in this volume range across the history of Swedish poetry from the 1640s, at the beginning of the Period of Great Power, to the late twentieth century. Poets as diverse as Skogekar Bergbo, Erik Johan Stagnelius, August Strindberg, and Vilhelm Ekelund are discussed from historical, psychological, and sociopolitical viewpoints. However, Gustafsson includes only...

"Henrik Nordbrandt's poems pour out as cold, clear, and mineral-tanged as spring water. . . . Nordbrandt is a master, masterfully reborn in English. This is a book of signal beauty and mystery."--Rosanna Warren

Although most of his life has been spent abroad in countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, Henrik Nordbrandt has simultaneously and undeniably emerged, next to Inger Christensen, as one of Denmark's very best contemporary poets. If it was Paul Celan who first claimed that poetry was "a message in a bottle, sent out in the--not always greatly hopeful--belief that somewhere...

Die vom 13. bis zum Beginn des 16. Jahrhunderts entstandenen Islandersagas sind seit jeher Schwerpunkt altnordistischer Forschung.
Ihren zahlreichen, oft minutiosen Beschreibungen von Kleidung ist bislang aber wenig Beachtung geschenkt worden. Sie wurden zumeist als Beiwerk ohne Handlungsrelevanz betrachtet, das lediglich der Illustration einer mittelalterlichen Umwelt gedient hatte.
Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Bekleidung der Sagafiguren im Hinblick auf soziale, geschlechtliche und emotionale Konstellationen innerhalb des Erzahlkontexts der Islendingasogur und...