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  • Cabins in Modern Norwegian Literature

    Negotiating Place and Identity

    by Ellen Rees ...
    This book examines the significance of cabins and other temporary seasonal dwellings as important symbols in modern Norwegian cultural and literary history. The author uses Michel Foucault’s notion of the “heterotopia”—an actual place that also functions imaginatively as a kind of real-world utopia—to examine how cabins have signified differently during successive periods, from an Enlightenment ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • The Kalevala

    Or, Poems of the Kaleva District

    Translated by Francis Peabody Magoun Jr. ...
    The national folk epic of Finland is here presented in an English translation that is both scholarly and eminently readable. To avoid the imprecision and metrical monotony of earlier verse translations, Francis Magoun has used prose, printed line for line as in the original so that repetitions, parallelisms, and variations are readily apparent. The lyrical passages and poetic images, the wry humor ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • A Silent Language: The Nobel Lecture

    by Jon Fosse ...
    Translated by Damion Searls ...
    The essential lecture delivered by the 2023 Nobel Laureate in Literature, published for the first time in a collectible edition.“If there’s any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening,” says Jon Fosse in A Silent Language, the lecture he delivered after being awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. When he writes, Fosse explains, he listens for texts that ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Locating August Strindberg's Prose

    Modernism, Transnationalism, and Setting

    The setting of a novel is more than just an anonymous, interchangeable backdrop. In Locating August Strindberg's Prose, Anna Westerståhl Stenport argues that spatial setting is a key - though often neglected - tool for exploring the fundamentals of European literary modernism.Stenport examines the importance of location by exploring the prose of Swedish exile August Strindberg (1849-1912), ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • THE BLACK DEATH

    A captivating account of a significant medieval event in Europe.

    "The Black Death: Unraveling Europe's Medieval Catastrophe"In the tumultuous landscape of medieval Europe, the Black Death emerged as a cataclysmic force, reshaping societies, economies, and the very fabric of life itself. This captivating account delves into the harrowing narrative of one of the most significant events in European history.Originating in the 14th century, the Black Death, believed ... Read more

    $6.56 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La Cloche d'Islande d'Halldór Kiljan Laxness

    Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis

    Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisIl n’est pas d’Islandais qui ne tienne La Cloche d’Islande (1943-1946), du Prix Nobel islandais Halldór Kiljan Laxness (1902-1998), pour le maître livre qui ait jamais été écrit dans sa langue, pourtant riche de chefs-d’œuvre de toutes sortes depuis le Moyen Âge.Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • Die Kenning in der altnordischen Literatur

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Skandinavien und Island, Universität Basel (Nordische Philologie), Veranstaltung: Runer, skaldediktning, landskaplove, riddersagaer, folkeviser- Literatur im mitterlalterlichen Norwegen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit werde ich die 'Kenning' behandeln. Dieses spezielle Stilmittel prägt die altnordische Literatur ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Swedish Theory of Love

    Individualism and Social Trust in Modern Sweden

    Translated by Stephen Donovan ...
    Series series New Directions in Scandinavian Studies
    In 2020 Sweden's response to COVID-19 drew renewed attention to the Nordic nation in a way that put the finger on a seeming paradox. Long celebrated for its commitment to social solidarity, Sweden suddenly emerged as the last country in the West to resist lockdown while defending individual rights and responsibilities. To explain these contradictions, Henrik Berggren and Lars Trägårdh argue that ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Ghosts

    by Henrik Ibsen ...
    Henrik Ibsen, a Norwegian playwright, is the author of the play Ghosts. Mrs. Alving, a widow planning to dedicate an orphanage in memory of her late husband, is the play's main character. Mrs. Alving is forced to face the demons of her past as the play progresses, including her terrible marriage and her son's turbulent childhood. Ghosts is renowned for its candid presentation of taboo topics ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Bridges to Scandinavia

    by Collectif ...
    Series series Di/Segni
    This volume is the final output of a project started in 2013 on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the Scandinavian Section of the University of Milan. A group of scholars working on different European and non-European cultural and literary traditions come together here to discuss the relationships between their areas of study and the Nordic countries. The range of the contributions ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway

    by Dean Krouk ...
    Series series New Directions in Scandinavian Studies
    Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway illuminates the connections between literature and politics in interwar Europe. Focusing on the works of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Knut Hamsun and modernist poets Asmund Sveen and Rolf Jacobsen, all of whom collaborated with the Nazi regime during the occupation of Norway in World War II, and those of the anti-fascist novelist and critic Sigurd Hoel, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Discourse in Old Norse Literature

    The vast and diverse corpus of Old Norse literature preserves the language spoken not only by the Vikings, kings, and heroes of medieval Scandinavia but also by outlaws, missionaries, and farmers. Scholars have long recognized that the wealth of verbal exchanges in Old Norse sagas presents the modern reader with the opportunity to speak face-to-face, as it were, with these great voices of the past ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Swedish Marxist Noir

    The Dark Wave of Crime Writers and the Influence of Raymond Chandler

    by Per Hellgren ...
    Marxist theories have had a profound influence on crime fiction, beginning with the works of the American writers of the 1930s. This study explores the development of a Swedish Marxist noir subgenre after the 1990s through a Marxist reading of central works, from the Marlowe novels of Raymond Chandler to the 1960s social crime fiction of Sjowall-Wahloo to modern bestselling authors such as Henning ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Kalevala: An Epic Poem after Oral

    The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition with prehistoric roots. During the first millenium of our era, speakers of Uralic languages (those outside the Indo-European group) who had settled in the Baltic region of Karelia, that straddles the border of eastern Finland and north-west Russia, developed an oral poetry that was to ... Read more

    $1.99 USD $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Names and Naming in 'Beowulf'

    Studies in Heroic Narrative Tradition

    'Beowulf', one of the earliest poems in the English language, recounts a tale of heroism played out against the backdrop of Scandinavia in the 5th to 6th centuries AD. And yet, this Old English verse narrative set in Scandinavia is – a little surprisingly, perhaps – populated with names of German descent.This insight into the personal names of 'Beowulf' acts the starting point for Philip A. Shaw's ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Did the Vikings Really Wear Horned Helmets in Battles? History Book Best Sellers | Children's History

    Today’s images of Vikings show them wearing horned helmets. However, history has a different account. To learn if the Vikings really wore horned helmets in battle, read the contents of this children’s history books. Educating children about historical truths should happen consistently and early in life. This is the best way to make sure your child is properly guided by the lessons of the past. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Norse Mythology Guide

    Set Sail on a Journey into the Realms of Viking Lore and Magic [II Edition]

    by Nolan Lested ...
    BONUS: Paperback versions contain exclusive access to two online courses on Norse mythology!Do you want to know the true origin of Norse Mythology?YOU ARE ABOUT TO UNLOCK THE TRUTH THAT ANYONE HAS NEVER REVEALED TO YOU IN MOVIES OR SCHOOL!I guess you have already seen many movies on this subject and maybe read dozens of forums and the only thing you could find in common are the characters' names ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Realismus in Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons 'Synnøve Solbakken'

    by Lasse Seebeck ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Skandinavien und Island, Note: 1,7, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald (Nordische Abteilung), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 1903 erhielt Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson als erster norwegischer Schriftsteller den Literaturnobelpreis. Eines seiner Gedichte wurde von seinen Landsleuten als Text der norwegische Nationalhymne ausgewählt ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Conversations with Karl Ove Knausgaard

    Edited by Bob Blaisdell ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard (b. 1968) made a literary mark on his home country in 1998, when his debut novel won the prestigious Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature. His fame continued to grow with the publication of his six-volume autobiographical series Min Kamp, or My Struggle. Translated into English in 2012, the critically acclaimed and controversial series garnered global ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel

    Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård’s six-volume, 3600-page autobiographical novel, My Struggle, has been widely hailed for its heroic exploration of selfhood, compulsive readability, and restless experimentation with form and genre. Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel explains why. Across four chapters, Claus Elholm Andersen shows how Knausgård confronts, challenges, and rejects the symbiotic ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Christiania (1811-1869)

    Littérature, nation et religion dans la Norvège des années romantiques

    Series series Tempus
    Ce livre se présente comme un voyage à Christiania (ancien nom d'Oslo), dans les méandres de la vie culturelle norvégienne au xixe siècle. Celle-ci se déploie dans cette petite ville brumeuse devenue capitale d'un État autonome en 1815, et qui cherche à susciter une vie intellectuelle qui soit réellement « nationale », à l'heure où la nation est encore à inventer. L'ouvrage aspire ainsi à rendre ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Droit et littérature dans le contexte suédois

    Essai sur la littérature et le droit

    Quel place représente la justice dans la littérature suédoise ?L’idée d’étudier les rapports entre droit et littérature vient du monde anglo-saxon et plus précisément américain. Cette idée a donné lieu à la création d’un courant de pensée dont le livre Law’s Stories représente actuellement le bréviaire sur les campus américains.D’une part ce mouvement a généré des études nouvelles sur quelques ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dans l'ombre de l'avenir

    La poésie d'avant-garde en Finlande 1916-1944

    by Harri Veivo ...
    Series series Quæstiones
    La Finlande accède à l’indépendance en 1917, sombre aussitôt dans une guerre civile, s’en remet dans la décennie qui suit, goûte à la joie des années folles, traverse ensuite une période de turbulences politiques, et se confronte de nouveau à une guerre, mondiale cette fois, en 1939. Pendant toute cette période, la nouvelle poésie ne cesse de questionner la société, d’interroger le monde moderne ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Histoire de la littérature grecque

    PréfacePréliminairesLa poésie grecque avant Homère.Les RhapsodesHomèreHésiodeHymnes homériques et poèmes cycliquesPoésie élégiaque et poésie ïambiquePoésie élégiaque (suite)Poésie choliambique. Parodie. ApologueLyriques éoliensLyriques doriensLyriques ioniens. ScoliesPindareThéologiens et philosophes-poètesPremières compositions en proseHérodote. HippocrateOrigines du théâ... ... Read more

    $2.22 USD