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Nordic Literature: A comparative history is a two-volume comparative analysis of the literature of the Nordic region. Bringing together the literature of Finland, continental Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Sápmi), and the insular region (Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands), each volume of this two-volume project adopts a new frame through which one can recognize and analyze significant clusters of literary practice. This first volume, Spatial nodes , devotes its attention to the changing literary figurations of space by Nordic writers from medieval to contemporary times. Organized around the depiction of various "scapes" and spatial practices at home and abroad, this approach to Nordic literature stretches existing notions of temporally linear, nationally centered literary history and allows questions of internal regional similarities and differences to emerge more strongly. The productive historical contingency of the "North" as a literary space becomes clear in this close analysis of its literary texts and practices.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

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