Imagining the Supernatural North
Contribuţii de Shane McCorristine, Jennifer E. Michaels, Ya'acov Sarig, Rudolf Simek, Athanasios Votsis, Brian Walter, Brenda Walter Editat de Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Danielle Marie Cudmore, Stefan Donecker Contribuţii de Angela Byrne, Silvije Habulinec, Erica Hill, Jay (Jennene) Johnston, Maria Kasyanova, Jan Leichsenringen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781772122671
ISBN-10: 177212267X
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: University of Alberta Press
Colecția University of Alberta Press (CA)
ISBN-10: 177212267X
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: University of Alberta Press
Colecția University of Alberta Press (CA)
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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] -- Nikolas Sellheim -- Polar Record, 20170704
"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] -- Shelly Sommer -- Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 49:4, 20171101
"[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] -- Marinette Grimbeek
"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] -- Sara Culeddu
"...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." -- Kirsten Mllegaard, Folklore -- 20190611
"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] -- Shelly Sommer -- Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 49:4, 20171101
"[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] -- Marinette Grimbeek
"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] -- Sara Culeddu
"...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." -- Kirsten Mllegaard, Folklore -- 20190611
Cuprins
Introduction // Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Danielle Marie Cudmore, and Stefan Donecker PART I | ANCIENT ROOTS / The Menace and the Divine 1 In Jewish Lore, Not Only Evil Descends From the North // Ya'acov Sarig 2 The Realm of the North in Ancient Greek Proverbs // Maria Kasyanova 3 The Ancient Greek Myth of Hyperborea Its Supernatural Aspects and Frameworks of Meaning // Athanasios Votsis PART II | FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD / The Monstrous and the Demonic 4 Monstra septentrionalia Supernatural Monsters of the Far North in Medieval Lore // Rudolf Simek 5 From Eirkr the Red to Trolls in the Wilderness 77 The Development of Supernatural Greenland in the Old Norse Sagas // Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough 6 Winter's Flesh Septentrio and the Monstrous Female Body in Late Medieval Medicine and Theology // Brenda S. Gardenour Walter 7 The Supernatural Image of Iceland in Johannes Kepler's Somnium (1634) // Stefan Donecker PART III | THE NINETEENTH CENTURY / The Scientific and the Spiritual 8 Imagining the Celtic North Science and Romanticism on the Fringes of Britain // Angel Byrne 9 Mesmerism and Victorian Arctic Exploration // Shane McCorristine 10 Myths of Iceland and Mount Hekla and their Deconstruction Ida Pfeiffer's Journey to Iceland // Jennifer E. MichaelS 11 Moon Men and Inland Dwellers The Dissemination of Greenlandic Legends and Myths in the Writings of Hinrich Rink and Knud Rasmussen // Silvije Habulinec PART IV | CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES / The Desire for a Supernatural North 12 A Distant Northern Land Nabokov's Zembla and Aesthetic Bliss // Brian Walter 13 The Idea of North Intertextuality and Environmentalism in Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass // Danielle Marie Cudmore 14 The Elf in Self The Influence of Northern Mythology and Fauna on Contemporary Spiritual Subcultures // Jay Johnston 15 A Blaze in the Northern Sky Semiotic Strategies of Constructing the Supernatural North in Music Subcultures // Jan Leichsenring 16 Men, Women, and Shamans Daily Ritual Practice in the Supernatural North // Erica Hill Contributors 293 Index 299
Notă biografică
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough is a lecturer in medieval history and literature at Durham University in the UK. Danielle Marie Cudmore is a lecturer at Halmstad University in Sweden. Stefan Donecker is a research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.