The Fictional North - Ten Discussions of Stereotypes and Icons Above the 53rd Parallel (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)

Western culture may have enshrined North as a touchstone by which all other directions are defined, but the North is not one but a number of Netherlands; like all frontiers, the North is, in its essence, imaginative, magicked out of ice and snow, muskeg and tundra. Storytelling is its generative principle, the activity through which the North and Northerners call themselves into being.In essays on topics ranging from the Aboriginal justice system in Canada to the search for the Northwest Passage to the cultural paradigms of medieval Iceland, The Fictional North examines stereotypes and iconic images of the North, the relationship of North to South, and ethnographic and fictional models of "Northerness." This diversity of subjects and methodologies not only introduces readers to the diversity found above the 53rd Parallel, but also reflects the catholicity of the North itself. Interdisciplinary and timely, The Fictional North offers insights into the North's past as well as its present to those interested in circumpolar issues and the areas of culture, literature, history, film, sociology, and education.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2012
First published:	May 2012
Editors:	Sue Matheson • John Butler
Dimensions:	212 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages:	175
Edition:	Unabridged edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4438-3769-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	1-4438-3769-5
Barcode:	9781443837699

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