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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’.
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.
The articles in this second issue of "Romantik" demonstrate the
crucial role of emergent regionalism and nationalism within the
Romantic movement. But, the contributors also explore how the
transmission of ideas and inspiration took place across national as
well as linguistic boundaries, and how knowledge was transferred
from one domain of knowledge to another. The articles provide a new
map of such cultural exchanges in the Romantic era and the
multiplicity of agencies that made them possible. "Romantik"
continues to place the plurality of European Romanticisms within a
comprehensive and multi-lingual context.
A part of the journal Romantik: Journal for the Study of
Romanticisms. This inaugural issue of Romantik: Journal for the
Study of Romanticisms contains seven articles that explore the
connection between Romanticism and the political sphere. This topic
has long been in need of redefinition. By gathering work from
across disciplines with an interdisciplinary or cross-cultural
scope, the topic is opened up to new perspectives of investigation.
The articles in this first issue present new and exciting analyses
of such diverse discourses as mythology, the fairy tale,
historiography, elite culture, landscape painting, sculpture and
dreaming.
This third issue of "Romantik: Journal for the Study of
Romanticisms" contains a theme section: "Renegotiations of
romanticism". This special theme brings together various
examinations of the ways in which romanticism continues to play an
important role in a post-romantic age. The reason for inviting
contributions examining the afterlife of romanticism in national
and international settings is to explore how we may understand it
as not just a past event or artistic movement, but as an ongoing
process of cultural development. The contributions provide new
insights into post-romantic art -- both from the perspective of the
artists and in terms of how their works were received. In addition
to the articles featured in the theme section, this issue also
contains contributions that shed new light on both canonical and
lesser-known works from the romantic period -- including analyses
of poetry, novels, and travelogues. As in previous issues, Romantik
is richly illustrated. With contributions by Mitchell B Frank,
Karin Sanders, Silje Svare, Sigrun Asebo, Anne Gry Haugland, Klaus
Muller-Wille, Elisa Muller-Adams, Jennifer Wawrzinek and Per-Arne
Bodin.
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)
The articles in this number of Romantik include new research on
reverie and dream as the locus of metaphor in Percy Bysshe
Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; an enquiry into the Royal Swedish
Society for the Publication of Manuscripts Relating to Scandinavian
History and the role it played in the construction of national
memory and heritage; a discussion of Philippe Jacques de
Loutherbourg's and John Martin's iconographies of the sublime in
the intersection between art and popular visual spectacle; archival
discoveries related to the publication of medieval romance in early
nineteenth-century Britain; and a reassessment of The Prelude as a
formation narrative, arguing that William Wordsworth displays a
conflicted attitude to the growth and progress usually found in the
Bildungsroman. The journal also contains reviews of new books on
the romantic period published in the Nordic countries.
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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