Centring on the peripheries
Subtitle: studies in Scandinavian, Scottish, Gaelic and Greenlandic literature
By: edited by Bjarne Thorup Thomsen.
Contributors: Thomsen, Bjarne Thorup.
Series: Norvik Press series A -- no. 28; Series A (Norvik Press) -- no. 28
Publisher: Norvik Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Norwich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781870041669
Subjects: Regionalism in literature.; Scandinavian literature -- History and criticism.; Scottish Gaelic literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction; value: Centring on the peripheries / Cairns Craig; value: The gnarled-pine people: humility and nobility in Finland-Swedish letters / Clas Zilliacus; value: Edith Södergran: when Karelia was the centre / Nalle Valtiala; value: Norrland and the question of cultural identity / Anders Öhman; value: Norrlandic revivalism in the novels and short stories of Torgny Lindgren / Anders Persson; value: Nordic national borderlands in Selma Lagerlöf / Bjarne Thorup Thomsen; value: The fragmented body: transgressing the periphery. Two novels by Herbjørg Wassmo and Christian Krohg / Steinvör Pálsson; value: Stille Eksistenser: silence, language and landscape in Grønfeldt, Greig and Warner / C. Claire Thomson; value: The debatable lands and passable boundaries of gender and nation / Aileen Christianson; value: 'To say "beautiful" in Swedish': the periphery as centre in Stephen Greenhorn's Passing places / Bill Findlay; value: Origins, centres and peripheries: the case of Early Scottish literature / R.D.S. Jack; value: 'It follows me, that black island...': portraying and positioning the Hebridean 'fringe' in twentieth-century Gaelic literature / Donald E. Meek; value: Questioning the idea of the marginal: aspects of the poetry of Christian Matras / Anne-Kari Skarđhamar; value: Beyond the periphery: Icelandic literature in a Scandinavian context / Baldur Hafstađ; value: 'New' Icelandic literature: Icelandic-Canadian challenges to Icelandic national identity / Daisy Neijmann; value: Stepping off the map? Greelandic literature between nation and globalisation / Kirsten Thisted.