Scandinavica
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Scandinavica's authoritative articles, its book reviews and its prompt and detailed annual bibliographies have established its reputation over the years as an indispensable reference tool in the many fields covered in its pages. It is published in two issues per year, in May and November; it publishes a comprehensive index every ten years.
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Latest Issue: Volume 50, No. 2 (2011:2)
Articles:
- Beverly A Thurber: A New Interpretation of Frithiof's Steel Shoes
- Robert Cardullo: Day of Wrath, the Spirit of Tragedy, and the Judgement of the Creator
- Ellen Rees: Trolls, Monster Masts, and National Neurosis: André Øvrelid's The Troll Hunter
- Claus Elholm Andersen: Snow, Shadow, Self: Emil Aarestrup and Poetic Recollection
- Mads Bunch: Flappers and Macabre Dandies: Karen Blixen's 'Carnival' in the Light of Søren Kierkegaard
Comment and Debate:
- Claire Thomson: Engaging the Public with Scandinavian Culture: The UCL Context
Reviews:
- Christopher Abram: Myths of the Pagan North: The Gods of the Norsemen (Tarrin Wills)
- Annie Mattsson: Komediant och riksförrädare. Handskriftscirculerade smädeskrifter mot Gustaf III (Alan Swanson)
- Vigdis Ystad et al. (eds.): Henrik Ibsens skrifter (Janet Garton)
- Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Thor Arvid Dyrerud, Christian Janss, Marius Timmann Mjaaland and Vigdis Ystad (eds.): Kierkegaard, Ibsen og det moderne.
Kwok-Kan Tam, Terry Siu-Han Yip and Frode Helland (eds.): Ibsen and the Modern Self (Marie Wells)
- Anna Westerståhl-Stenport: Locating August Strindberg's Prose: Modernism, Transnationalism, and Setting (Kristina Sjögren)
- Erik Van Ooijen: The Mold of Writing: Style and Structure in Strindberg's Chamber Plays (Lynn R Wilkinson)
Volume 50, No. 1 (2011:1)
A special issue on Literature, Welfare and Well-being
Articles:
- Peter Simonsen and Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen: Introduction - Literature, Welfare and Well-being: Towards a Poetics of the Scandinavian Welfare State
- Lasse horne Kjældgaard: 'An Open System with an Objective External to Itself': The Rapprochement between Danish Politics and Literature in the Golden Age of the Welfare State, 1950-1980
- Peter Simonsen: Per Petterson and Kirsten Thorup's Fictions of Old Age Well-being in the Welfare State
- Anne-Marie Mai: Literature as a Companion and Critic of the Welfare State
- Nils Gunder Hansen: Adultery as a Symbol of the Welfare State in Anders Bodelsen's 'The Christmas Gathering'
- Anders Thyrring Andersen: Ivory Tower or Dialogue? Against the Myth concerning the Secluded Authors around Heretica
- Helena Forsås-Scott: Narratives from the Margin? Welfare and Well-being in Kerstin Ekman's Skraplotter
Reviews:
- Olof von Dalin: Samlade Skrifter: Dramatik, Text och Kommentar. Eds. Ingemar Carlsson and James Massengale. Samlade Skrifter: Swenska Friheten, Text och Kommentar. (Alan Swanson)
- Anne Grete Holm-Olsen (ed.): Jonas Lie, Breve 1851-1908, 1-3. (Marie Wells)
- Peter Sjølyst-Jackson: Troubling Legacies: Migration, Modernism and Fascism in the Case of Knut Hamsun. (Martin Humpål)
- Lisbeth Stenberg: I kärlekens namn - Om människosynen, den nya kvinnan och framtidens samhälle i fem litteraturdebatter 1881-1909.
Petra Broomans (ed.): From Darwin to Weil: Women as Transmitters of Ideas. (Helena Forsås-Scott)
- Ellen Rees: Figurative Space in the Novels of Cora Sandel (Tone Selboe)
- Tore Rem: Sin egen herre. En biografi om Jens Björneboe. Født til frihet. En biografi om Jens Bjørneboe (Janet Garton)
Volume 49, No. 2 (2010:2)
Articles:
- John Mitchinson: The Saming of the Few: Post-Colonialism without the ‘Other’ in the Faroe Islands
- Malan Marnersdottír: Women and Ballads: The Representation of Women in Faroese Ballad Tradition
- Anne-Kari Skarðhamar: ‘Dancing on the Edge between Pride and Shame’: Representations of Colonialism and Independence in Gunnar Hoydal’s Novel Í havsins hjarta
Comment and Debate:
- Elettra Carbone (ed.) Nordic Research Network 2010: PhD Symposium of Scandinavian Studies in the UK
Reviews:
- Stefan Brink, in collaboration with Neil Price (ed.): The Viking World (Christopher Abram)
- Birgit Eggert, Bente Holmberg and Bengt Jørgensen (eds.): Nordiske navnes centralitet og regionalitet (Arne Kruse)
- Michael Robinson (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg (Alan Swanson)
- Eszter Szalczer: Writing Daughters: August Strindberg’s Other Voices (Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams)
- Helena Forsås-Scott: Re-writing the Script: Gender and Community in Elin Wägner (Anna Nordenstam)
- Peter Forsgren: I vansklighetens namn. Genus, genre och modernitet i Elin Wägners smålandsromaner (Anna Nordenstam)
- Anna Bohlin: Textens anatomi. Läsningar av politik i Elin Wägners Silverforsen, Selma Lagerlöfs Löwensköldtrilogi och Klara Johansons Tidevarvskåserier (Helena Forsås-Scott)
- Sofi Qvarnström: Motståndets berättelser, Elin Wägner, Anna Lenah Elgström, Marika Stiernstedt och första världskriget (Helena Forsås-Scott)
- Thomas Bredsdorff and Lasse Horne Kjældgaard: Tolerance: eller hvordan man lærer at leve med dem, man hader (Ia Dubois)
Volume 49, No. 1 (2010:1)
Articles:
- Ellen Rees, The Seter as Locus Amoenus in Edvard Storm's Døleviser
- Richard Farmer, Events and Ukuleles: Norway in Second World War British Cinema
- Dag Heede, Death in Rødby: The 'Obituary' Poetics of Helle Helle
Comment and Debate:
- Lee Miles, Making Mischief with Swedish Models: Reflections on Contemporary Swedish Politics
Reviews:
- Else Mundal and Jonas Wellendorf (eds.), Oral Art Forms and their Passage into Writing (James Massengale)
- Mats Malm, Barbro Ståle Sjönell, and Petra Söderlund (eds.), Bokens materialitet. Bokhistoria och bibliografi (Alan Swanson)
- Anne-Kari Skarðhamar (ed.), Christian Matras' brevveksling med William Heinesen og Karsten Hoydal (Janet Garton)
- Jorunn Hareide (ed.), Magdalene Thoresen. Brev 1851-1903. Vol. I-III (Janet Garton)
Volume 48, No. 2 (2009:2)
Articles:
- Elettra Carbone, Consistere and Muoversi: The Meeting of Human Being and Statue in Henrik Ibsen's Når vi døde vågner and Luigi Pirandello's Diana e la Tuda
- Daisy Neijmann, The Image of Iceland in UK Fiction
- Nete Schmidt, Untangling the Knot - Words, Power, and Identity in Svend Åge Madsen
Comment and Debate:
- Davina Quinlivan, Micro-topographies: Geological Imprints and the Destabilization of Modernity in the Films of Lars von Trier
Reviews:
- Lasse Horne Kjældgaard: Sjælen efter Døden. Guldalderens moderne gennembrud (Karin Sanders)
- Merete Mazzarella: Fredrika Charlotta född Tengström. En nationalskalds hustru (Heidi Grönstrand)
- Niels Frank: Alt andet er løgn. Essays om moderne litteratur (Julie K. Allen)
- Nina von Zimmermann: Geschichten aus der Jazz-Zeit. Die 'verlorene Generation' in der dänischen Literatur (Julie K. Allen)
- Mats Jansson, Janna Kantola, Jakob Lothe & H. K. Riikonen (eds): Comparative Approaches to Nordic and European Modernisms (Peter Fjågesund)
- Mary Hilson: The Nordic Model. Scandinavia since 1945 (David Arter)
Volume 48, No. 1 (2009:1)
Articles:
- Kristina Sjögren: Translating Gender in Strindberg's Le plaidoyer d'un fou
- Rebecca Harrison: Haunted Screens and Spiritual Scenes: Film as a Medium in the Cinema of Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Niels Kayser Nielsen: Urban Life and Country Kitchen - On Valences of Danish Food Culture in the Context of the Experience Economy
Comment and Debate:
- Mary Hilson: What is Scandinavian Studies? Reflections on a Region, a Discipline and a Department
Reviews:
- Katherine Holman: The Northern Conquest: Vikings in Britain and Ireland (Colleen Batey)
- Michael Barnes and R. I. Page: The Scandinavian Runic Inscriptions of Britain (Jan Ragnar Hagland)
- Joseph Martin Kraus: Brev 1776-1792 (Alan Swanson)
- Klaus P. Mortensen: Tilfældets poesi: H. C. Andersens forfatterskab (Niels Ingwersen)
- Astrid Sæther: Suzannah. Fru Ibsen (Janet Garton)
- Sverre Lyngstad: Knut Hamsun, Novelist (Tanya Thresher)
- Birgitta Wistrand: Elin Wägner i 1920-talet. Rörelseintellektuell och internationalist (Anna Westerståhl Stenport)
- Margaret Koskinen (ed.): Ingmar Bergman Revisited: Performance, Cinema and the Arts (Arne Lunde)
- Annsofi Andersdotter: Det mörka våldet. Spåren av en subjektsprocess i Kerstin Ekmans författarskap and Cecilia Lindhé: Visuella vändningar. Bild och estetik i Kerstin Ekmans roman-konst (Suzanne B. Martin)
Bibliographies:
- Contributions to Scandinavian Studies in Other Periodicals
- Books received in 2008
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