Northern Myths, Modern Identities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Northern Myths, Modern Identities write by Simon Halink. This book was released on 2019-05-15. Northern Myths, Modern Identities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This anthology of essays, Northern Myths, Modern Identities, explores the various ways in which ancient mythologies have been cultivated in the cultural construction of ethnic, national and supra-national identities from 1800 to the present. How were Old Norse, Finno-Ugric and Frisian myths employed as rhetorical devices in national narratives? And how did (and do) these new interpretations convey a sense of ‘northernness’? This volume approaches these issues from an interdisciplinary and international perspective, and brings together case studies from Scandinavia, the Baltic region, Friesland, Britain, the United States and even Japan. Thus, it provides a unique insight into the reception history and uses of northern myths in the present, and their role in the creation of modern identities. Contributors are: Tim van Gerven, Gylfi Gunnlaugsson, Simon Halink, Sumarliði R. Ísleifsson, Otto S. Knottnerus, Joep Leerssen, Daisy Neijmann, Han Nijdam, Robert A. Saunders, Katja Schulz, Tom Shippey, Carline Tromp, and Kendra Willson.
Scandinavism: Overlapping and Competing Identities in the Nordic World, 1770-1919
Scandinavism: Overlapping and Competing Identities in the Nordic World, 1770-1919 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scandinavism: Overlapping and Competing Identities in the Nordic World, 1770-1919 write by Tim van Gerven. This book was released on 2022-01-21. Scandinavism: Overlapping and Competing Identities in the Nordic World, 1770-1919 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through an in-depth analysis of historicist literature and art, this book demonstrates that cultural Scandinavism, despite its failure as a political mobilizer, was highly successful in strengthening and extending national consciousness-raising in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
Arctic Hysteria and Other Strange Northern Emotions
Arctic Hysteria and Other Strange Northern Emotions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arctic Hysteria and Other Strange Northern Emotions write by Riikka Rossi. This book was released on 2024-10-17. Arctic Hysteria and Other Strange Northern Emotions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume opens a new perspective on the thriving area of research on the imagined North by studying emotions in the light of case studies in Finnish literature. It addresses the cultural history of Arctic hysteria and maps other strange emotions depicted and evoked in literature of the Finnish North. The case studies range from the works of internationally renowned authors, such as Rosa Liksom, Emmi Itäranta and Tove Jansson, to the affectively controversial and provocative writings of Timo K. Mukka, Marko Tapio and Pentti Linkola. By focusing on the imagined North in the literature of modernism and late modernity, the authors offer fresh views on experiences of modernisation and the changing Northern environment in the age of the Anthropocene. The book is intended for scholars and students in literary studies, together with everyone interested in the imagined North and emotion, Finnish literature and culture.
Mythology and Nation Building
Mythology and Nation Building - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mythology and Nation Building write by Sophie Bønding. This book was released on 2021-07-30. Mythology and Nation Building available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stories of gods, heroes and monsters permeated discourses of national selfhood in the nineteenth century. During this tumultuous time, Europe’s modern nations arose from the misty waters of long-forgotten national pasts – or so was the perception at the time. Each embedded in their particular national and political contexts, towering cultural figures – N.F.S. Grundtvig, Jacob Grimm, Jonás Halgrímsson, William Morris, Adam Oehlenschläger and many more – were catalysts for the formation of national discourses of belonging, built upon the mythological story-worlds of Europe’s non-classical vernacular pasts. This interdisciplinary book offers new perspectives on the uses of pre-Christian mythologies in the formation of national communities in nineteenth-century Northern and Western Europe. Through theoretical articles and case studies, it puts forth new understandings of how cultural thinkers across Europe utilized pre-Christian mythologies as symbolic resources in the forging of national communities. Perceptions of national identity were thus shaped, many of which are still at play today.
Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism
Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism write by John A. Geck. This book was released on 2022-06-25. Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism is a cross-cultural analysis of the role that alcohol consumption played in literature, social and cultural history, and gender roles in the Middle Ages. The volume also seeks to correct or offer new insights into historical beer production. By drawing on the expertise of scholars of history, archaeology, Old and Middle English, Old Norse, and Medieval and Early Modern literature, the book shows how historical medieval beer and brewing has influenced nostalgic post-medieval nationalism and romanticized visions of the medieval ale-house seen in beer marketing today. The essays describe alcohol consumption in the Middle Ages across much of Northern Europe, engage with the various myths employed in modern craft beer advertising and beer production, and examine how gender intersects with beer production and consumption. The editors also raise certain critical questions about medievalisms which need to be interrogated, particularly in light of the continued use of the Middle Ages for white supremacist and colonialist ideals. The volume contributes to the study of the popular and historical understandings of the Middle Ages as well the issues of race and gender.
