{"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
{"title":"Henrik Ibsen and Conspiracy Thinking: The Case of Peer Gynt","authors":"Giuliano D’Amico","doi":"10.5406/21638195.94.3.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.94.3.02","url":null,"abstract":"Generating countless websites, books, films, series, and podcasts, and encompassing nearly every major negative event that has taken place since the end of World War II, conspiracies have become a phenomenon that anyone as a citizen and thinking individual has had to cope with in the last few decades, arguably reaching a peak during the Trump presidency, with the rise of QAnon and various conspiracy theories about the current Covid-19 pandemic (Barkun 2017;Amarasingam and Argentino 2020;Mitchell et al. 2020;Uscinski et al. 2020). Not surprisingly, the rise of conspiracy theories has also coincided with an increasing scholarly interest, especially within psychology and the social sciences, although studies of conspiracies in literature and film have also grown in number during the last two decades. Just to mention two famous examples, the same Brown's Inferno (2013) draws upon the long-standing tradition of conspiracy theories related to Dante's Divine Comedy, and the works of William Shakespeare have been subjected to a long series of conspiratorial readings, arguably reaching a peak-at least in a Norwegian context-with Erlend Loe's and Petter Amundsen's mashup of theories about Shakespeare's persona and the coded messages that the English dramatist allegedly left in his texts (Loe and Amundsen 2006). Drawing upon Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's rejection of a fixed identity in late modern society and cultural production, she makes a clear argument against two main avenues of scholarly interpretation of the play, a Hegelian and Cartesian one: \"I argue that Peer Gynt should be understood as expressing a fundamentally non-transcendent world-view\" (Rees 2014, 13, 19). [...]according to Rees, Peer Gynt's status as a \"national epos\" is highly paradoxical, and the play hardly seems to contain a clear-cut \"message\" or to allow a straightforward interpretation, be it about cultural identity or otherwise.","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46435182","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":"Swedish-American Borderlands: New Histories of Transatlantic Relations ed. by Dag Blanck and Adam Hjorthén (review)","authors":"E. Jackson","doi":"10.5406/21638195.94.3.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.94.3.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42622631","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":"The Development of Education in Medieval Iceland","authors":"Sverrir Jakobsson","doi":"10.5406/21638195.94.2.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.94.2.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48349260","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":"Nordic War Stories: World War II as History, Fiction, Media, and Memory ed. by Marianne Stecher-Hansen (review)","authors":"Arne Lunde","doi":"10.5406/21638195.94.2.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.94.2.07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43331152","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":"Volcanoes in Old Norse Mythology: Myth and Environment in Early Iceland by Mathias Nordvig (review)","authors":"Manu Braithwaite-Westoby","doi":"10.5406/21638195.94.2.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.94.2.09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45614663","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":"Hope in the Age of Dystopia: The Ghost in the Machine in Øyvind Rimbereid's Solaris korrigert","authors":"Eirik Vassenden","doi":"10.5406/21638195.94.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.94.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48150758","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}