{"title":"Some Would Call This Living","authors":"Leonie Marx","doi":"10.5406/21638195.94.3.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.94.3.09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41605204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tropes Revisited: Evert Sprinchorn's Ibsen's Kingdom: The Man and His Works and Recent Historical Research in Ibsen Studies","authors":"Ellen Rees","doi":"10.5406/21638195.94.4.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.94.4.06","url":null,"abstract":"Evert Sprinchorn’s biography of the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, Ibsen’s Kingdom: The Man and His Works, published by Yale University Press in 2020, is riddled throughout with errors and presents neither new information about “the Man” nor particularly insightful interpretations of “His Works.” Sprinchorn has missed what amounts to a revolution in historical and biographical research into Ibsen’s life spearheaded by Ivo de Figueiredo’s two-volume biography Henrik Ibsen: Mennesket (2006; Henrik Ibsen: The Human Being) and Henrik Ibsen: Masken (2007; Henrik Ibsen: The Mask).1 De Figueiredo’s groundbreaking study is now available in one volume in Robert Ferguson’s English translation, also published by Yale University Press (de Figueiredo 2019). The 2010 publication of Den biografiske Ibsen (The Biographical Ibsen) marks a major advancement in Ibsen scholarship overlooked by Sprinchorn; this collection of articles calls into question the historical accuracy of many of the persistent biographical tropes about Ibsen (Sæther, Dingstad, Kittang, and Rekdal 2010). Sprinchorn cites neither this important volume, nor any of the meticulously researched and compelling biographical, book-historical, and theaterhistorical findings by scholars such as Anette Storli Andersen, Ståle","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"94 1","pages":"530 - 545"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46501336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geopolitics, Northern Europe, and Nordic Noir: What Television Series Tell Us about World Politics by Robert A. Saunders (review)","authors":"R. Johnsen","doi":"10.5406/21638195.94.4.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.94.4.07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"94 1","pages":"546 - 548"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43496443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Encounters at the Mound in Old Norse Literature: Dialogues between Landscape and Narrative","authors":"Adèle Kreager","doi":"10.5406/21638195.94.4.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.94.4.01","url":null,"abstract":"In Old Norse literature, landscape is a significant component of the grammar of a text. To take just three examples, consider Drangey in Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar: a sheer and unassailable island described as a “vígi” (Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar 1936, 218) [stronghold], where the outlaw Grettir makes his last stand. This “vígi” represents the ultimate topographical expression of Grettir’s progressive dislocation from society, a locus “symbolic of an incarcerated psyche” (Damico 1986, 11). Consider the body of water across which two hostile interlocutors hurl insults and negotiate identities in the eddic poem Hárbarðsljóð: “‘Hverr er sá karl karla / er kallar um váginn?’” (Hárbarðsljóð 2014, 389) [Who is that churl of churls who calls across the gulf?].2 This spatial threshold is structural to the speech-act that ensues, since it enforces verbal rather than martial combat. And consider the dynamic seascape of cliff, rock, and wave, conjured through cumulative kennings","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"94 1","pages":"399 - 430"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45827207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Young Women and Disgust in Contemporary Norwegian Comics: A Close Reading of Ane Barstad Solvang's Frykt & medlidenhet","authors":"Adriana Margareta Dancus","doi":"10.5406/21638195.94.4.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.94.4.02","url":null,"abstract":"The figure of the young woman who leaks bodily wastes, struggles mentally, and behaves in ways that disgust and provoke is recurrent in Norwegian comics drawn and written by women in the late 2010s (e.g., Neverdahl 2017; Øverbye 2018; Solvang 2018; Tegnehanne 2019). There are several reasons why women cartoonists’ preoccupation with young female characters and disgust is worthy of critical attention. On the one hand, Norwegian comics have had a spectacular development in the last decade, gaining critical acclaim and popularity (Birkeland, Risa, and Vold 2018), becoming more inclusive and diverse once several women cartoonists made their debut in a medium traditionally dominated by male creators. On the other hand, while Norway has an international reputation as one of the most gender equal countries in the world (see, for example, the United Nation’s “Gender Inequality Index”2), national studies paint a more somber picture when it comes to the situation of young women in Norway. For example, recent","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"94 1","pages":"431 - 452"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44202979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When a King of Norway Became a King of Russia: Transmission and Reception of Hrómundar saga Greipssonar in Scholarly Networks of Early Modern Scandinavia","authors":"K. Kapitan","doi":"10.5406/21638195.94.3.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.94.3.03","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the reception of Old Norse-Icelandic literature has seen an increasing amount of scholarly attention, which has manifested itself in a series of publications spanning from Northern Antiquity: The Post-Medieval Reception of Edda and Saga (Wawn 1994) in the early nineties, to the intensification of the interest in the past decade, for example, Studies in the Transmission and Reception of Old Norse Literature (Quinn and Cipolla 2016), The Legendary Legacy: Transmission and Reception of the Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda (Driscoll et al. 2018), and most recently, The Vikings Reimagined: Reception, Recovery,","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"94 1","pages":"316 - 351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48052113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wojtek Jezierski, Sari Nauman, Thomas Lindkvist, Biörn Tjällén
{"title":"Sweden, Inc.: Temporal Sovereignty of the Realm and People from the Middle Ages to Modernity","authors":"Wojtek Jezierski, Sari Nauman, Thomas Lindkvist, Biörn Tjällén","doi":"10.5406/21638195.94.3.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.94.3.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"94 1","pages":"352 - 381"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45376381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strindberg's Representation of Anxiety in The Father: Between Naturalistic Determinism and Existential Indeterminism","authors":"Markus Floris Christensen","doi":"10.5406/21638195.94.3.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.94.3.01","url":null,"abstract":"Fadren (1887; The Father [1998]) has traditionally been considered one of Strindberg’s naturalistic plays. However, it has also been read as a play that anticipates movements such as symbolism, nihilism, and expressionism.1 Some proponents of the naturalistic interpretation base their arguments on the thematics of the play, pointing to the power struggle between the sexes that takes place in the play and claiming that this is a prototypical naturalist trope. In this line of research, some scholars refer to Strindberg’s personal ambitions to become part of the naturalist European theater scene, which became apparent as he mailed the manuscript to Émile Zola in order to achieve his recognition. Other scholars zero in on the play’s various symbolic and mythopoeic tropes, arguing that the representation of ghosts, spiritualism, and mythological allusions goes beyond the naturalistic framework and","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"94 1","pages":"261 - 280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47136807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}