Recently added articles from Scandinavian Studies:

Ethics or pragmatics; fate or chance; heathen, Christian, or godless world?(Hrafnkels saga)(Critical essay)

Dec 22, 2007; Sayers, William ... NO ICELANDIC SAGA of comparable length has generated more critical comment than Hrafnkels saga. In a recent book, Theodore M. Andersson summarizes: <Pre>The central debate in the critical literature has been betweenthose who think that Hrafnkel is a defective chieftain who ...

Linnaeus 1907: Oscar Levertin and the re-invention of Carl Linnaeus as ecological subject.(Essay)

Dec 22, 2007; Oscarson, Christopher ... De som annu vaga kalla [Linne] den torre systematikern hava icke funnit mastaren dar han skall sokas: i hans harliga resor, hans tal, brev och vissa avhandlingar. I resorna ser han liver hela naturen i dess tre riken, stenarnas, vaxternas och djurens; och han behandlade dem som levande ...

Gyntian simulacra: twenty-first-century appropriations of Peer Gynt.(Critical essay)

Dec 22, 2007; Rees, Ellen ... IN A PASSING COMMENT in the fourth act of Henrik Ibsen's 1867 dramatic poem, Peer Gynt, Peer says to his four foreign companions "Man skal ej laese for at sluge, / men for at se, hvad man kan bruge" (134) [One shouldn't read in order to devour / but in order to see what one can use], which ...

Falling out of time, falling out of memory: Villy Sorensen, trauma, and the fall.(fall of man)(Critical essay)

Dec 22, 2007; Kramer, Nathaniel ... Straffen er tydelig, at enhver Overveielse, om hvad Virkelighed er, er vanskeliggjort, ja maaskee en tidlang umuliggjort, fordi Ordet forst maa ligesom have Tid til at besinde sig paa sig selv, Tid til at glemme Feiltagelsen. --Kierkegaard, Begrebet Angest 318 (1) ...

Andersen after 2005: will it ever end? On four recent volumes on the Tales of Hans Christian Andersen.(When We Get to the End ... Towards a Narratology of the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen; H.C. Andersen: Eventyr, kunst og modernitet; H.C. Andersen: Modernitet and Modernisme; More Than Meets the Eye: Hans Christian Andersen and Nineteenth-Century American Criticism)(Critical essay)

Dec 22, 2007; Ingwersen, Niels ... * Per Krogh Hansen and Mariarme Wolff Lundholt, eds. When We Get to the End ... Towards a Narratology of the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. Writings from the Center for Narratological Studies I. Odense: UP Southern Denmark, 2005. * Elizabeth Oxfeldt, ed. H.C. Andersen: ...

Matthias Legner. Faderneslandets ratta beskrivning: Motet mellan antikvarisk forskning och ekonomisk nyttokult i 1700-talets Sverige.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Thomson, Erik ... Matthias Legner. Faderneslandets ratta beskrivning: Motet mellan antikvarisk forskning och ekonomisk nyttokult i 1700-talets Sverige. Skrifter utgivna av Svenska litteratursallskapet i Finland, 669. Helsinki: Svenska litteratursallskapet i Finland, 2004. Pp. 287. 34.00 [euro]. ...

Pal Bjorby, Alvhild Dvergsdal, and Idar Stegane, eds.: Ibsen on the Cusp of the 21st Century: Critical Perspectives.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Sandberg, Mark ... Pal Bjorby, Alvhild Dvergsdal, and Idar Stegane, eds. Ibsen on the Cusp of the 21st Century: Critical Perspectives. Laksevag, Norway: Alvheim & Eide Akademisk Forlag, 2005. 281 pp. This collection of essays, written by some of today's most noted international Ibsen scholars, is ...

Margaret Clunies Ross. A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Sondrup, Steven P. ... Margaret Clunies Ross. A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2005. While the study of the poetry of any culture is an integral part of the familiarity with the literary tradition of that culture, the careful and systematic examination of the poetics ...

Erik Morstad, ed.: Edvard Munch: An Anthology.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Alexis, Karin ... Erik Morstad, ed. Edvard Munch: An Anthology. [Oslo]: Unipub forlag and Oslo Academic P, 2006. Edvard Munch (1863-1944), the Norwegian painter, may be the most well-known Scandinavian artist in an international community of art historians. Munch has been included in surveys of ...

Knut Hamsun. Growth of the Soil.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Buttry, Dolores ... Knut Hamsun. Growth of the Soil. Trans. Sverre Lyngstad. New York: Penguin Books, 2007. Pp. xx + 328. Paperback. $13.00. A new translation of Hamsun's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, Markens grode, has long been overdue. The same year the novel appeared (1917), the Englishman ...

Sten Rentzhog. Open Air Museums: The History and Future of a Visionary Idea.(Book review)

Dec 22, 2007; Barton, H. Arnold ... Sten Rentzhog. Open Air Museums: The History and Future of a Visionary Idea. Stockholm: Carlssons, and Ostersund: Jamtli, 2007. Pp. 532. Hardbound. There are few who have not visited open air museums at one time or another, but far fewer have any idea how widespread, many, and ...

Report of the President: the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study.(Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study)(Conference news)

Dec 22, 2007; Brantly, Susan C. ... THE 97TH ANNUAL MEETING of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study was held 26-28 April 2007, in Davenport, Iowa. The local organizer was Prof. Larry Scott of Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois and the academic program was overseen by Prof. Jason Lavery of Oklahoma ...

Financial report of the Secretary-Treasurer for 2006.(Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study)(Financial report)

Dec 22, 2007; Jensen, Richard L. ... THE SECRETARY-TREASURER has organized this report to reflect the purpose and status of each of the Society's assets. Some investments are intended to help support gifts and grants while others are reinvested for growth. Routine operating funds are maintained in the SASS operating account ....

97th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study: Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois: 26-28 April 2007.(Calendar)

Dec 22, 2007 ... Thursday, 26 April 7 pm Welcome, Keynote Address, and Opening Session Anna Bjartmarsdottir Sveinbjornsson, Nordic Studies Librarian at the University of Washington, "Education in a Modern Multicultural Iceland" Friday, 27 April 8:00-10:00 am 1 ....