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
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.; Bellettrie.; Scandinavische talen.; Schots (Engels); Gaelic (Schots); Eskimotaal.; Groenland.; Noord-Scandinavië.; Schotland.; Hebriden.; Faeröer.; IJsland.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Centring on the peripheries / Cairns Craig; title: The gnarled-pine people: humility and nobility in Finland-Swedish letters / Clas Zilliacus; title: Edith Södergran: when Karelia was the centre / Nalle Valtiala; title: Norrland and the question of cultural identity / Anders Öhman; title: Norrlandic revivalism in the novels and short stories of Torgny Lindgren / Anders Persson; title: Nordic national borderlands in Selma Lagerlöf / Bjarne Thorup Thomsen; title: The fragmented body: transgressing the periphery. Two novels by Herbjørg Wassmo and Christian Krohg / Steinvör Pálsson; title: Stille Eksistenser: silence, language and landscape in Grønfeldt, Greig and Warner / C. Claire Thomson; title: The debatable lands and passable boundaries of gender and nation / Aileen Christianson; title: 'To say "beautiful" in Swedish': the periphery as centre in Stephen Greenhorn's Passing places / Bill Findlay; title: Origins, centres and peripheries: the case of Early Scottish literature / R.D.S. Jack; title: 'It follows me, that black island...': portraying and positioning the Hebridean 'fringe' in twentieth-century Gaelic literature / Donald E. Meek; title: Questioning the idea of the marginal: aspects of the poetry of Christian Matras / Anne-Kari Skarđhamar; title: Beyond the periphery: Icelandic literature in a Scandinavian context / Baldur Hafstađ; title: 'New' Icelandic literature: Icelandic-Canadian challenges to Icelandic national identity / Daisy Neijmann; title: Stepping off the map? Greelandic literature between nation and globalisation / Kirsten Thisted.