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European and Nordic Modernisms | Add to order
Edited by Mats Jansson, Jakob Lothe and Hannu Riikonen
ISBN-10: 1870041585 ISBN-13: 9781870041584
298 pages £24.95 hardback 2004 Series A No. 23
This important collection of essays explores the growth and development of Nordic Modernisms in a European context. Modernism is a truly international movement that cuts across many boundaries - geographical, cultural, and linguistic. Modernism involves the literatures of several countries; indeed, as these thematically homogenous but methodologically diverse essays demonstrate, cross-fertilization is a prerequisite for its very existence. The essays gathered here discuss the diverse forms of Modernism that emerged in the Nordic countries at widely differing moments. Modernist forerunners such as Friedrich Nietzsche, and key representatives of Modernism such as T. S. Eliot and Franz Kafka, are linked to a number of writers who all contributed to the development of a Nordic Modernism. This book demonstrates that the emergence of Modernism in the Nordic literatures is closely related to, and inspired by, the modernizing works and movements in early twentieth-century Europe.
This new volume of readings in Nordic cinema features interventions from leading cinema studies scholars and Scandinavian specialists from the UK, the US and the Nordic world.
Scandinavica Spring 2009: Vol. 48 No. 1
To commemorate the centenary of Ibsen's death, a selection of the finest articles published in Scandinavica on the subject of Ibsen's work is being published by Norvik Press under the title Turning the Century.
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