Nordic Literature: A Comparative History. Volume I: Spatial Nodes

NORDIC LITERATURE: A COMPARATIVE HISTORY VOLUME I: SPATIAL NODES
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
List of contributors
List of figures
Preface
General project introduction
	Is there such a place as Scandinavia?
	Language and region
	Region as an explanatory space
The framework
	The concept of place
	Place and literature
	Place and region
	Scapes and practices
	The aim of the framework
Scapes
Landscapes
	Fourteenth century and on: Looking back from landscape
	Mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth century: The emergence of landscape
	Nineteenth century: The dissemination of landscape
	Late nineteenth to early twentieth century: Inhabiting the landscape
	Twentieth century: Beneath, above, and beyond landscape
	Non-Nordic landscape
Point of contact
	The domain of Bárður Snæfellsás
	Snæfellsjökull from afar
	Snæfellsjökull as medium
A guide to Gurre, temporary landscape
Utopias as territories of Swedish modernism
	Prelude: Two utopias in classic Scandinavian literature
	Urbs, the utopian global city of Ludvig Nordström
	The utopia of the planetary nomad of Harry Martinson
	The cosmic dystopia of Martinson
	The metachronic dystopia of Karin Boye
	Shipping: Heterotopias and the reterritorialization of modernism
Jutland and the West Coast as liminal spaces in Danish literature
	Denmark’s imagined geography
	Blicher’s Jutland
	Hans Christian Andersen and the West Coast
	Goldschmidt: A Jewish writer’s Danish travels
	On the point
	The disillusion of the Danish Dream
	The postcolonial West Coast
“Far higher mountains”
	Ascent
	On the hill: The self and the landscape
	On the mountaintop: The self and the sublime
	Poems of homesickness and longing
	Songs about the homeland and national anthems
	Descent
South of the South
	Hans Christian Andersen in the Grotta Azzurra
	Fersen: Decadent Capri
	Munthe: Capri paradise
	Paradise lost
Waterscapes
	Medieval mapping: Landnámabók þeiri
	Baroque topography: Nordlands trompet
	Going inland: Finnish lakes
	Archipelagos and islands
	At sea
	Modernist techniques: Östersjöar
The tale of a thousand lakes
	Lakes and other literary waterscapes
	What one can do with lakes in literature
	Lakes as national symbols
	Erotic tensions on the lake
	Spiritual lakes
	Rewriting lake scenes
The island in Nordic literature
Archipelago
	Emilie Flygare-Carlén’s ‘Rosen på Tistelön’: Crime and punishment in the archipelago
	August Strindberg’s ‘I havsbandet’: The creative intellect and its defeat
	John Ajvide Lindqvist’s ‘Människohamn’: Loss, love, and faith
	Distance and threat: The city and the archipelago
	The archipelago as liminal space
There must be a periphery
	Far away in the north: J. H. O. Djurhuus
	Dano-Faroese literature
	Paper boat in rough waters
	“Far out in an ocean”
	Gunnar Hoydal: A rooted cosmopolitan
	Conclusion
The seven seas
	Sea histories
	Erasure and artistic archaeology
	Sea, ship, sailor
	Domestic life and maritime life
	Antagonism
	Compromise
	Re-enchantment
Cityscapes
	The urban novel
	Cityscape as lightscape
	Cityscape as wordscape
	Beyond the Nordic cityscape
Through the land of ‘lagom’ in literature
	“A charming and remarkable intermediate!”
	“A town under this town”
	“A kick that shattered the glass and broke the frame”
	“Though so like Paris…”
	“One of the most beautifully located small cities in Sweden”
	“What is a pane of glass in this world?”
A city awakens
	The student novel
	The city walker
	Helsinki in the mist
	The Great Strike and the Viapori Rebellion
	A kaleidoscopic city novel
	Conclusion
Walking the city
	The didactic traveler
	The journalist
	The revolutionary
	The spiritual wanderer
	The vagabond
	The bohemian
	The sexual woman
	The worker
	The ‘flâneur’ revisited
The limits of the unlimited
The history-accumulator
	The making of Berlin (1800–70)
	The modern metropolis: Berlin as a parvenu (1870/71–1914/18)
	Fascinating excesses, enchanting order (1914/18–1944)
	Cold wars (1945–89)
	Berlin as a ‘lieu de mémoire’ (1989/90–2010)
Poets in New York
	City of sun and dreams
	Between anachronism and synchronism
	The howl from America
	City of the body
	Prose writers in New York
	Everything glitters
Lightscapes
Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 1
	“Sun came from the South”
	Contrasting domestic lightscapes
	Four types of lightscapes
	Religion and metaphysics (1500–1870)
	The celestial lightscape reaches the Earth
	Rhetoric and poetic creativity (1600 to the present)
	Self-promoting lightscapes
	Lightscapes of cognition (1750–1925)
Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 2
	“I am longing for Italy”
	The new literary lightscape
	From the touristic gaze to the escapist illusion
	Individualized lightscapes
	Existential changes
	Escapist dreams
	Cosmologies
	The sea and the city
Qualities of light
	Forest-light to field-light
	The presence of past light
	Shadow lands
Glocalizing the light of Norwg-West
	Inner light
	The light of labor
	Regio Norwg-West, picts takat fra ofven
	Light
Millenniumscapes
	New Nordic
	At the margins of the welfare state
	Beyond literary place
Toxic places
	Place and the nation
	The atomic age and the vision of the global
	Chernobyl in the Nordic spatial imagination
	Toxicity and the lost pastoral
	Toxicity and a globalized sense of place
	Toxicity and invisible geographies
	Pollution and place
This site is under construction
	Imagined communities and planned regions
	Negotiating national boundaries in the novel
	Bridging the binational binary
	The Øresund as global nexus
	Øresund noir: Bron/Broen
	The ephemerality of the region
	Epilogue
Cathartic moments or spatial liberty
	Fiction
	Gameplay
	‘Hamlet’ revisited
	Caterpillar and self-reference
	Playability: Closing remarks
Introduction
Settling
“And the two shall become one flesh”
Taking land and claiming place in Nordic migrant literature
	Emigration and immigration narratives
	Contemporary migrant literature
	Conclusion
Radical utopianism among Nordic immigrant authors
Dwelling
	Dwelling as captivity
	The rise of children’s literature
	Rural dwelling and the rise of tourism
Seasonal secondary dwellings
	Acknowledgements
“Worker ants on the lush bosom of Earth”
	Well-ordered households and daily routines
	Hard life and bohemian lifestyle in small cabins
	Separation from agrarian time-space
	Contemporary nostalgia for the agrarian way of life
By land, by sea, by air, by mind
	“Tehkös liitto, lintuseni” / Let us strike a bargain, little bird
	“Flyttfåglarne” / Birds of passage
	Ruoktu Váimmus / Trekways of the Wind
	“Tid: en sång om Trojas murar” / Time: A song about the walls of Troy
	Conclusion
Exploring
	Explorers of the Grand Tour
The literary Arctic
	Portraying the journey to the pole
	Nansen’s Greenland expedition
	The polar avant garde
	Explorers as authors
	Hybrid genres
Dislocation and identity formation in the work of Isak Dinesen
Absorbing places and the triumph of modernity
Northern bound
Sacralizing
	Landscapes of power
	Sacralized space in Nordic oral literature
	The literary uses of liminal space
	The rise of nationalism
	Multiethnic challenges
	Postcolonial Challenges
Niðaróss cathedral
Nation and sacrifice
	Søren Kierkegaard’s ‘Frygt og Bæven’
	Henrik Ibsen’s ‘Brand’
	Dag Solstad’s ‘Armand V.’: Fotnoter til en uutgravd roman
	Kirsten Hammann’s ‘En dråbe i havet’
Legend and liminality
Liminality
Worlding
Fishing for meaning on the Deatnu River
De-framing the indigenous body
	Embracing “the mongrel”
	Landscape, memory, and culture
	Re-framing/De-framing the colonial representation
	“Arctic hysteria”
	Family albums
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
Works cited
Location index
Person index