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About Scandinavica

Scandinavica's authoritative articles, its book reviews and its prompt and detailed annual bibliographies have established its reputation over the years as an indispensable reference tool in the many fields covered in its pages. It is published in two issues per year, in May and November; it publishes a comprehensive index every ten years.

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Latest Issue: Volume 48, No. 1

Editor's Note

by Claire Thomson

Articles:

Kristina Sjögren: Translating Gender in Strindberg's Le plaidoyer d'un fou
Rebecca Harrison: Haunted Screens and Spiritual Scenes: Film as a Medium in the Cinema of Carl Theodor Dreyer
Niels Kayser Nielsen: Urban Life and Country Kitchen - On Valences of Danish Food Culture in the Context of the Experience Economy

Comment and Debate:

Mary Hilson: What is Scandinavian Studies? Reflections on a Region, a Discipline and a Department

Reviews:

Katherine Holman: The Northern Conquest: Vikings in Britain and Ireland (Colleen Batey)
Michael Barnes and R. I. Page: The Scandinavian Runic Inscriptions of Britain (Jan Ragnar Hagland)
Joseph Martin Kraus: Brev 1776-1792 (Alan Swanson)
Klaus P. Mortensen: Tilfældets poesi: H. C. Andersens forfatterskab (Niels Ingwersen)
Astrid Sæther: Suzannah. Fru Ibsen (Janet Garton)
Sverre Lyngstad: Knut Hamsun, Novelist (Tanya Thresher)
Birgitta Wistrand: Elin Wägner i 1920-talet. Rörelseintellektuell och internationalist (Anna Westerståhl Stenport)
Margaret Koskinen (ed.): Ingmar Bergman Revisited: Performance, Cinema and the Arts (Arne Lunde)
Annsofi Andersdotter: Det mörka våldet. Spåren av en subjektsprocess i Kerstin Ekmans författarskap and Cecilia Lindhé: Visuella vändningar. Bild och estetik i Kerstin Ekmans roman-konst (Suzanne B. Martin)

Bibliographies:

Contributions to Scandinavian Studies in Other Periodicals
Books received in 2008

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Extra Information

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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.
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Scandinavica Spring 2009: Vol. 48 No. 1
Turning the Century

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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More information about Scandinavica

Scandinavica is designed and distributed from the Department of Scandinavian Studies, University College London, and printed by Page Bros, Norwich.

Scandinavica is published with support from Statens humanistiske forskningsråd (Denmark), Norges almenvitenskaplige forskningsråd, Humanistisksamhällsvetenskapliga forskningsråd (Sweden), the Nordic Board for Periodicals in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOP-HS) and the British Academy.

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