The literary Arctic

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors ix
4. List of figures xi
5. Preface xv
6. General project introduction 1
7. The framework 19
8. Scapes
9. Landscapes 33
10. Point of contact 43
11. A guide to Gurre, temporary landscape 56
12. Utopias as territories of Swedish modernism 70
13. Jutland and the West Coast as liminal spaces in Danish literature 80
14. “Far higher mountains” 95
15. South of the South 109
16. Waterscapes 123
17. The tale of a thousand lakes 130
18. The island in Nordic literature 146
19. Archipelago 163
20. There must be a periphery 173
21. The seven seas 186
22. Cityscapes 201
23. Through the land of lagom in literature 208
24. A city awakens 220
25. Walking the city 234
26. The limits of the unlimited 247
27. The history-accumulator 262
28. Poets in New York 275
29. Lightscapes 289
30. Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 1 291
31. Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 2 314
32. Qualities of light 338
33. Glocalizing the light of Norwg-West 348
34. Millenniumscapes 361
35. Toxic places 366
36. This site is under construction 381
37. Cathartic moments or spatial liberty 395
38. Practices
39. Introduction 411
40. Settling 413
41. “And the two shall become one flesh” 420
42. Taking land and claiming place in Nordic migrant literature 432
43. Radical utopianism among Nordic immigrant authors 445
44. Dwelling 455
45. Seasonal secondary dwellings 478
46. “Worker ants on the lush bosom of Earth” 486
47. By land, by sea, by air, by mind 502
48. Exploring 519
49. The literary Arctic 530
50. Dislocation and identity formation in the work of Isak Dinesen 555
51. Absorbing places and the triumph of modernity 562
52. Northern bound 572
53. Sacralizing 585
54. Niðaróss cathedral 603
55. Nation and sacrifice 615
56. Legend and liminality 628
57. Liminality 641
58. Worlding 651
59. Fishing for meaning on the Deatnu River 662
60. De-framing the indigenous body 672
61. Works cited 687
62. Location index 735
63. Person index 741