Recently added articles from Scandinavian Studies:
Adjusting judgments of Gauta pattr's forest family.(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... GAUTREKS SAGA, a fornaldarsaga or "saga of ancient times" written in Iceland around the turn of the fourteenth century, has been the object of many and varied analyses. One element of the saga that has occasioned little disagreement among scholars, however, is the forest family featured in ...
The big splash: end-rhyme and innovation in medieval Scandinavian poetics.(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... WHEN THE MATIERE DE BRETAGNE began to appear in Old Norse translation during the reign of King Hakon Hakonarsson of Norway (d. 1262), the Old French sources underwent a process of literary as well as stylistic transformation. Among the sagas attributed to Hakon's patronage are Tristrams ...
The Little Mermaid: icon and disneyfication.(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... AS AN ICON IN MASS CULTURE, the Little Mermaid has become the official image of Denmark in general, and of its capital, Copenhagen, in particular. Its iconicity is intimately tied to two sources: Edvard Eriksen's famous bronze statue erected on the Copenhagen waterfront in 1913 and Hans ...
"He strongly envied Sherlock Holmes. but he decided not to take him to his model": a discursive approach to the "self" in an early self-reflexive finnish detective novel.(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION: EXPLORING THE EXPLICIT SELF-REFLEXIVITY OF THE FINNISH DETECTIVE NOVEL IN THE 1910s AND 1920s DETECTIVE NOVELS became a flourishing genre in Finland at the I beginning of the twentieth century. Initially mainly English and American detective stories were ...
Skandinavische Literaturgeschichte.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Skandinavische Literaturgeschichte. Ed. Jurg Glauser. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2006. The title Skandivavische Literaturgeschichte, though perhaps seemingly straightforward and unambiguous, has many challenging and methodologically complex issues lurking just beneath the surface ....
Jan Fridegard. A Viking Slave's Saga (Jan Fridegard's Trilogy of Novels about the Viking Age) Land of Wooden Gods, People of the Dawn and Sacrificial Smoke.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Jan Fridegard. A Viking Slave's Saga (Jan Fridegard's Trilogy of Novels about the Viking Age) Land of Wooden Gods, People of the Dawn and Sacrificial Smoke. Trans. Robert E. Bjork. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Occasional Publications 4. Tempe: Arizona Center for ...
Arne Toftegaard Pedersen. Urbana odysseer: Helsingfors, staden och 1910-talets finlandssvenska prosa.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Arne Toftegaard Pedersen. Urbana odysseer: Helsingfors, staden och 1910-talets finlandssvenska prosa. Helsingfors: Svenska Litteratursallskapet i Finland, 2007. Pp. 490. Toftegaard Pedersen (hereafter TP) wrote his Abo dissertation--Det marginaliserede gennembrud: Tre moderne ...
Selected Plays of Marcus Thrane.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Selected Plays of Marcus Thrane. Trans. Terje I. Leiren. Northfield: The Norwegian-American Historical Association; Seattle: U Washington P, 2007. 245 pp. $40.00 hardback; $30.00 paper. To his important book on Marcus Thrane's political activism in America (Marcus Thrane: A ...
Ruth Hemstad. Fra Indian Summer til nordisk vinter. Skandinavisk samarbeid, skandinavisme og unionsupplosningen.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Ruth Hemstad. Fra Indian Summer til nordisk vinter. Skandinavisk samarbeid, skandinavisme og unionsupplosningen. Oslo: Akademisk Publishing, 2008. Pp. 652. In 2005 the one-hundredth anniversary of the dissolution of the Norwegian-Swedish Union was widely celebrated in Norway and ...
Anatoly Liberman. An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Anatoly Liberman. An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 2008. Pp. 359. $50.00. The title of this volume does not quite describe what it implies in that only a handful of etymologies are dealt with. (It is in fact subtitled An ...
Anna Nordlund. Litteraturvetenskaplig analys genom hundra ar-atta satt att lasa Gosta Berlings saga.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Anna Nordlund. Litteraturvetenskaplig analys genom hundra ar-atra satt att lasa Gosta Berlings saga. Stockholm: Liber, 2008. 336 pages. Litteraturvetenskaplig analys genom hundra ar-atta sat att lasa Gosta Berlings saga [Literary analyses through one hundred years--eight ways to ...
Report of the President: the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... THE 98TH ANNUAL MEETING of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study was held March 13-15, 2008, in Fairbanks, Alaska. Professor Carol Gold of the University of Alaska-Fairbanks was the local organizer with the help of Mary Ehrlander and Rachel Gianini Abbot. The meeting ...
Financial report of the Secretary-Treasurer for 2007.(Financial report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... 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 ....
98th Annual Meeting of The Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study: Princess Hotel, Fairbanks, Alaska: 13-15 March 2008.(Calendar)
Dec 22, 2008 ... Thursday, March 13 1:00-4:00 p.m. SASS Executive Board meeting Marble Room 4:00-5:00 p.m. SHS Executive Board meeting Marble Room 5:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. registration 8:00 p.m.-no host reception Copper Room ...
Exile, time, and memory in Ola Hansson's short stories.
Sep 22, 2008; ... OLA HANSSON (1860-1925) was a cosmopolitan author leading a nomadic life right up until his death in Buyukdere on the Bosporus in Turkey. Disillusioned with the contemporary Swedish literary scene, Hansson went into voluntary exile in 1889. Henceforth, he lived at more or less temporary ...
Jonas and the Panther: translation, alliteration, and Icelandic identity.
Sep 22, 2008; ... "In any poet's poem the shape is half the meaning." --Louis MacNeice A PROMINENT CHARACTERISTIC of Modern Icelandic poetic practice is a strict system of structural alliteration, (1) inherited from ancient Germanic poetic practice via skaldic meters and rimur. Almost ...
Strindbergarna: a case study of early U.S. Reception of Sweden's National Playwright.
Sep 22, 2008; ... THE THEATRICAL ACTIVITIES of the short-lived (1912-16?) club called "Strindbergarna" were not only among the very earliest productions of August Strindberg's plays in the Chicago area, but also were likely the first organized attempts to produce Strindberg's plays by a Swedish-American ...
Stenhammar's symphony in G minor and the quest for a pure Nordic style.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Too OFTEN MUSIC HISTORIANS consider a Nordic style a forgone conclusion when they study the works of Scandinavian composers. Yet actually pinning down what constitutes Nordic style is more illusive, especially during the late romantic period when Wagnerism was sweeping over the musical ...
Saints and politics during the Kalmar Union period: the case of Saint Margaret in Tensta.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... THE PERIOD OF THE KALMAR UNION, from the late fourteenth century to approximately the 1520s, is without a doubt one of the most contentious eras in Nordic history. During this time, the three Nordic kingdoms were for the most part united under one ruler though that rule was often disputed ...
The conscience of the rich: Djursholm, Birkastaden, and Swedish liberalism.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... AT THE BEGINNING of the twentieth century, Djursholm was Stockholm's most prosperous suburb while Birkastaden on the city's northwestern outskirts was one of its poorest quarters. Both had come into existence relatively recently and were products of a new industrial age. The relationship ...