Imagining the Supernatural North
Editat de Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Danielle Marie Cudmore, Stefan Doneckeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 oct 2016
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781772122671
ISBN-10: 177212267X
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: University of Alberta Press
Colecția Polynya Press
Locul publicării:Edmonton, Canada
ISBN-10: 177212267X
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: University of Alberta Press
Colecția Polynya Press
Locul publicării:Edmonton, Canada
Public țintă
The North is of growing interest to researchers in many disciplines across the world. As the polar regions have become the focus of political and ecological controversies, scholars in the humanities and social sciences have turned their attention to the cultural meanings of Northernness. This is the discursive context that underpins ongoing political discussions. This book will open up the field and introduce new questions to these crucial debates. Therefore, it will be of interest to all institutions and research groups that deal with the North as a cultural concept.Comentariile autorului
3 B&W photographs, bibliography, notes, index
Cuprins
Introduction // Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Danielle Marie Cudmore, and Stefan DoneckerPART I | ANCIENT ROOTS / The Menace and the Divine1 In Jewish Lore, Not Only Evil Descends From the North // Ya’acov Sarig2 The Realm of the North in Ancient Greek Proverbs // Maria Kasyanova3 The Ancient Greek Myth of Hyperborea Its Supernatural Aspects and Frameworks of Meaning // Athanasios VotsisPART II | FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD / The Monstrous and the Demonic4 Monstra septentrionalia Supernatural Monsters of the Far North in Medieval Lore // Rudolf Simek5 From Eiríkr the Red to Trolls in the Wilderness 77The Development of Supernatural Greenland in the Old Norse Sagas // Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough6 Winter’s Flesh Septentrio and the Monstrous Female Body in Late MedievalMedicine and Theology // Brenda S. Gardenour Walter7 The Supernatural Image of Iceland in Johannes Kepler’s Somnium (1634) // Stefan DoneckerPART III | THE NINETEENTH CENTURY / The Scientific and the Spiritual8 Imagining the Celtic North Science and Romanticism on the Fringes of Britain // Angel Byrne9 Mesmerism and Victorian Arctic Exploration // Shane McCorristine10 Myths of Iceland and Mount Hekla and their Deconstruction Ida Pfeiffer’s Journey to Iceland // Jennifer E. MichaelS11 Moon Men and Inland DwellersThe Dissemination of Greenlandic Legends and Myths in the Writings ofHinrich Rink and Knud Rasmussen // Silvije HabulinecPART IV | CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES / The Desire for a Supernatural North12 A Distant Northern Land Nabokov’s Zembla and Aesthetic Bliss // Brian Walter13 The Idea of North Intertextuality and Environmentalism in Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass // Danielle Marie Cudmore14 The Elf in Self The Influence of Northern Mythology and Fauna on Contemporary Spiritual Subcultures // Jay Johnston15 A Blaze in the Northern Sky Semiotic Strategies of Constructing the Supernatural North in Music Subcultures // Jan Leichsenring16 Men, Women, and Shamans Daily Ritual Practice in the Supernatural North // Erica HillContributors 293Index 299
Recenzii
"[T]his book is not only diverse and engaging, it also sheds light on the normative role of ‘the north’ in time and space as well as within different cultural contexts.... I therefore applaud the editors for having compiled a captivating volume of northern research which I wholeheartedly recommend for scholars of Scandinavian and Arctic studies, literary studies or cultural studies in general." [Full review at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247417000341]
“This is a North populated by gods, witches, real and imagined invaders, allegorical figures, monsters from the margins of maps, spirits, demons, and trolls.... Sixteen scholars from twelve countries across Europe, North America, and Australia explore particular instances of the North’s symbolic geography.... Notes and bibliographies throughout, and a really excellent index at the end, round out a good scholarly work. It belongs on the shelf of polar collections … [and] collections on the history of Western science, literature, or religion.” [Full review at https://doi.org/10.1657/AAAR0049-4-book2]
"[M]ost of the chapters take an anthropological or cultural studies approach, although many other disciplines are involved, including history, linguistics, literary studies, and folkloristics.... Supernatural North provides an accessible introduction to a vast subject by touching on such a variety of aspects related to the North and its hold on the Western imagination." Canadian Literature 233 (Summer 2017) [Full review at http://canlit.ca/article/imagining-the-land]
"Imagining the Supernatural North is a collection of sixteen essays written by scholars from various fields of study, who have investigated, from multiple perspectives, the theme of the North as part of the collective imagination throughout history, while focusing on the kindred connection between Northerness and the supernatural.... In summary, this brief overview of the wealth of information, expertise and thought-provoking suggestions contained in this book cannot do full justice to its alluring potential as a research instrument. While on the one hand the scientific approach and language make for a delightfully riveting read, on the other hand, the trans-historic perspective helps the reader identify a number of threads which crisscross the whole volume and which call for further investigation." Nordicum-Mediterraneum, Vol 14, No1, 2019 [Full review at https://bit.ly/2GPnfcR]
"...a collection such as this presents an opportunity to begin to think more critically about how the North and the peoples who inhabit it, in particular Indigenous peoples, are represented in popular culture as products of a particular cultural imagination."
“This is a North populated by gods, witches, real and imagined invaders, allegorical figures, monsters from the margins of maps, spirits, demons, and trolls.... Sixteen scholars from twelve countries across Europe, North America, and Australia explore particular instances of the North’s symbolic geography.... Notes and bibliographies throughout, and a really excellent index at the end, round out a good scholarly work. It belongs on the shelf of polar collections … [and] collections on the history of Western science, literature, or religion.” [Full review at https://doi.org/10.1657/AAAR0049-4-book2]
"[M]ost of the chapters take an anthropological or cultural studies approach, although many other disciplines are involved, including history, linguistics, literary studies, and folkloristics.... Supernatural North provides an accessible introduction to a vast subject by touching on such a variety of aspects related to the North and its hold on the Western imagination." Canadian Literature 233 (Summer 2017) [Full review at http://canlit.ca/article/imagining-the-land]
"Imagining the Supernatural North is a collection of sixteen essays written by scholars from various fields of study, who have investigated, from multiple perspectives, the theme of the North as part of the collective imagination throughout history, while focusing on the kindred connection between Northerness and the supernatural.... In summary, this brief overview of the wealth of information, expertise and thought-provoking suggestions contained in this book cannot do full justice to its alluring potential as a research instrument. While on the one hand the scientific approach and language make for a delightfully riveting read, on the other hand, the trans-historic perspective helps the reader identify a number of threads which crisscross the whole volume and which call for further investigation." Nordicum-Mediterraneum, Vol 14, No1, 2019 [Full review at https://bit.ly/2GPnfcR]
"...a collection such as this presents an opportunity to begin to think more critically about how the North and the peoples who inhabit it, in particular Indigenous peoples, are represented in popular culture as products of a particular cultural imagination."