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For four hundred years, Norse settlers battled to make southern
Greenland a new, sustainable home. They strove against gales and
winter cold, food shortages and in the end a shifting climate. The
remnants they left behind speak of their determination to wrest an
existence at the foot of this vast, icy and challenging wilderness.
Yet finally, seemingly suddenly, they vanished; and their
mysterious disappearance in the fifteenth century has posed a
riddle to scholars ever since. What happened to the lost Viking
colonists? For centuries people assumed their descendants could
still be living, so expeditions went to find them: to no avail.
Robert Rix tells the gripping story of the missing pioneers,
placing their poignant history in the context of cultural discourse
and imperial politics. Ranging across fiction, poetry, navigation,
reception and tales of exploration, he expertly delves into one of
the most contested questions in the annals of colonization.
Nordic Romanticism: Translation, Transmission, Transformation is an
edited collection exploring the varied and complex interactions
between national romanticisms in Britain, Denmark, Germany, Norway
and Sweden. The collection considers both the reception and
influence of Nordic romanticism in Britain and Germany and also the
reciprocal impact of British and German romanticism in the Nordic
countries. Taken as a whole, the volume suggests that to fully
understand the range of these individual national romanticisms we
need to see them not as isolated phenomena but rather as
participating, via translation and other modes of reception, in a
transnational or regional romanticism configured around the idea of
a shared cultural inheritance in 'the North'.
Nordic Romanticism: Translation, Transmission, Transformation is an
edited collection exploring the varied and complex interactions
between national romanticisms in Britain, Denmark, Germany, Norway
and Sweden. The collection considers both the reception and
influence of Nordic romanticism in Britain and Germany and also the
reciprocal impact of British and German romanticism in the Nordic
countries. Taken as a whole, the volume suggests that to fully
understand the range of these individual national romanticisms we
need to see them not as isolated phenomena but rather as
participating, via translation and other modes of reception, in a
transnational or regional romanticism configured around the idea of
a shared cultural inheritance in ‘the North’.
In Roman religion, Terminus was an agrarian god who protected
boundary markers. Stones were often used to provide an effective
means for marking these boundaries, although a stump or a tree
sometimes served to demarcate adjacent properties. The need to
demarcate boundaries and define ends continues to shape our way of
thinking at the most fundamental level. The articles in this book
investigate, among other things, developments in literature, film,
historiography, and new digital entertainment, to see how they
reflect cultural anxieties about 'the end' and/or how they are
determined by the need to mark boundaries. The contributions are
organized so that they reflect thematic, national, and
chronological perspectives. But, they also show that it is possible
to identify several threads of continuity in the way that 'the end'
has been conceptualized. By examining ideas of culmination,
conclusion, closure, finale, and termination - from the perspective
of a number of various genres, cultural formations, and historical
contexts - these essays on 'terminus' show how endings are carriers
of meaning in social and cultural contexts. (Series:
Interdisciplinaere Kulturstudier / Interdisciplinary Cultural
Studies - Vol. 5)
CONTENTS: Introduction: Movable Type, Mobile Nations; Pulp, The
Armed Services Editions & GI Reading During WWII; Legions, Laws
& Language: Book History & English Hegemony; Books, Swords,
& Readers: The Albatross Press & the Third Reich; Social
Networks: Modeling the Transnational Distribution & Production
of Books; The Serial Revolution at the Periphery; Fiction & the
Other Reader: The Reception of Imperial Adventure Romance in
Africa; Indian Ocean Pages: Port Cities & Postcolonial
Printing; The Scripts of Nationalism: Between the Lines of
Premchand's "Kafan"; Book History & the Metonymies of the Text.
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