Hasil untuk "History of Northern Europe. Scandinavia"

Frank Meyer

Julian P. Cadamarteri, Kristoffer Eliassen Grini

I denne artikkelen undersøker vi hvordan offentlige rom i Trondheim ble brukt under Nazi-Tysklands okkupasjon av Norge 1940–1945. I samarbeid med den norske NS-regjeringen tok okkupasjonsmakten kontroll over offentlige steder for å formidle propagandabudskap og for å utøve makt over befolkningen. Ulike aktiviteter og handlinger ble aktivt brukt for å omforme samfunnet etter nazistenes idealer, noe som gav bylandskapet nye lag av mening. Ved å undersøke bruken av Torvet i Trondheim, det viktigste offentlige rommet i byen, ønsker vi å belyse hvordan eksisterende materielle strukturer ble tatt i bruk på nye måter. På den ene side ble alle former for motstand forsøkt ekskludert, mens Torvet på den annen side ble en arena for fremvisning av både subtile og markante motstandshandlinger

Ida Bull

Katrin Stefan

Stephan Kurz

Suicide narrations have been viewed through the lens of Goethe's landmark novel. This paper, grounded in studying the epistolary novel genre, aims at enhancing knowledge about this text's impact on both the generic and the motif successions in (German language) literature by looking into the narrative modes employed in depictions of writing and killing, both of which are singular moments of subjectivity. Examples for later variations on the suicide motif are mainly taken from Fin-de-Siècle literature which in particular expands the means of narration, while the broad concept of textual interrelations remain unquestioned.

Deniz Cem Gülen

ABSTRACT: King Haraldr II ruled the Kingdom of Denmark from 1014 to 1018; however, his reign is challenging to study due to a lack of source material. A detailed analysis of the written primary sources from Denmark and Iceland—such as Saxo’s Gesta Danorum, Chronicon Roskilde, and Knýtlinga saga—gives the impression that the Danes wanted to forget Haraldr II by deliberately omitting his brief reign from these narratives. This article investigates the possible reasons why Danish historians of the eleventh and twelfth centuries may have wanted to collectively forget Haraldr. To demonstrate how Haraldr has been omitted from historical narratives, this study compares a variety of different primary sources from Scandinavia and England, in order to gather as much information as possible on the topic. The article subsequently explores three possible explanations as to why Haraldr has been omitted: (1) the possibility that Haraldr reverted to pre-Christian religious beliefs, contradicting medieval historians’ perspectives of a true king, (2) transmission of the sources in the medieval ages and (3) a lack of worthwhile events during the height of medieval Danish success.

Leena Eilittä

Randi Kristin Strand

Andrew McGillivray

Hanna Mellemsether, Merete Røskaft, Hilde Gunn Slottemo et al.

Jiřina Malá

Blanka Datinská, Markéta Valíčková

Bo Petersson, Lena Kainz

Migration-related events have received overwhelming attention in mainstream media coverage within Europe in recent years. This study investigates the metaphorical framing of migration issues by comparing dominant discursive patterns from two national and two regional daily newspapers in Sweden and Germany. Applying a corpus-based critical metaphor analysis, the spotlight falls on metaphors prevalent in media articles published during the EU Valletta Summit on migration held in November 2015. The article is inspired by Lakoff and Johnson’s classic work, Metaphors We Live By, according to which metaphors are components of everyday language with a pervasive influence on thoughts and actions. Adhering to this logic, metaphors become most powerful when taken for granted (»naturalized«) and therefore evade readers’ attention. Apart from tracing naturalized metaphorical framings in mainstream Swedish and German media coverage, this study discusses how the discursive connotations conveyed by dominant metaphors are likely to influence readers’ interpretation of migration-related issues and policies.

Rasmus Geßner

Armin Pfahl-Traughber

Jiří Munzar

Ágúst Guðmundsson

ABSTRACT: Land og Synir, based on a novel of the same name by Indriði G. Þorsteinsson, was the first feature-length film supported by the Icelandic Film Fund after its founding in 1978. Premiered in 1980 to great enthusiasm at home and warm, intelligent approval abroad, the film remains the benchmark for the Icelandic film industry that it inaugurated. The interview that follows a brief introduction intends to give Ágúst Guðmundsson, the author of the film, an opportunity to reflect on its achievement thirty years on, in the light of his subsequent successful career and the emergence of filmmaking as a major art form and industry in Iceland. The Editor.

Mads Bunch

ABSTRACT: “All my life I’ve been interested in the discrepancy between philosophy and reality, between conviction and its implementation.” (Lars von Trier, 2005) Most scholarly attention has so far been directed towards the elements of form and cinematography in Lars von Trier’s work. In this paper I will instead focus on the thematic and philosophical qualities of his work. Through analysis of protagonist types and plot structures, I will show how “the discrepancy between philosophy and reality” functions as a central underlying structure in the films. But also how this discrepancy shifts according to gender and over time in von Trier’s later production. I will also examine von Trier’s ties to nineteenth-century Scandinavian drama and German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. These are important connections which have as yet not received the attention they deserve.

Poul Houe

ABSTRACT: The essay interrogates faces as fictional realities, particular sites of artistic signification. What do such faces signify, and how? While its focus is Danish literary texts since Kierkegaard, my search for answers begins by crossing artistic and discursive boundaries—of films, architectural musings, facial prints—and concludes that impressions of real faces must be erased in order for their artistic counterparts to surface. Modern art distances itself from reality so as to approach it, makes it disappear before resurrecting it on art’s own terms, disables it to enable an image of it. “Where everything coincides with its image/reality ceases to exist,” says Danish poet Per Højholt. But if cessation of reality is (post)modern artistic reality’s sine qua non, it is also what makes the given come into being. In the words of another Danish poet, Poul Porum: “See a non-face/behind an everything mask.” The mask is everything, the face behind it nothing; yet it is this visible, significant nothing we are summoned to behold and contemplate.

Daisy L. Neijmann

ABSTRACT: The year 1980 marks a distinctive change and exciting renewal in the general development of post-war Icelandic fiction. An obsessive preoccupation with rural nostalgia and urban malaise gradually gives way to a decidedly anti-realist fiction which celebrates the wonders of everyday day life in the city. The term magical realism is often used in this context, and indeed, there can be little doubt that the Icelandic translation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude in 1978 constituted an important influence on writers during this period. One contemporary Icelandic author who has made striking use of magical realist strategies to dislodge the current impulses of modernity in Icelandic culture and disrupt imposed ways of perceiving reality is Vigdís Grímsdóttir. The aim of this article is to discuss the innovative ways in which Vigdís has used Icelandic story-telling and folklore traditions, preserved and passed down mostly by women, to reaffirm, from a female perspective, a localised cultural imagination within a contemporary globalised Icelandic urban context.