Icelandic Nature and Global Evils – Concepts of Nature in Romantic Poetry and Nordic Noir TV Series from Iceland
Abstract This paper takes concepts from spatial theory and globalization discourse and uses them in order to analyze the narrative function of descriptions of nature in romantic Icelandic poetry from the beginning of the 19 th century and an Icelandic TV-Series from 2015. In Iceland’s romantic poetr...
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crdegruyter:10.1515/ejss-2019-0008 2023-05-15T16:51:35+02:00 Icelandic Nature and Global Evils – Concepts of Nature in Romantic Poetry and Nordic Noir TV Series from Iceland Glanz, Berit 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2019-0008 http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ejss.2019.49.issue-1/ejss-2019-0008/ejss-2019-0008.xml https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ejss-2019-0008/pdf unknown Walter de Gruyter GmbH European Journal of Scandinavian Studies volume 49, issue 1, page 128-140 ISSN 2191-9402 2191-9399 Literature and Literary Theory Linguistics and Language Language and Linguistics Cultural Studies journal-article 2019 crdegruyter https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2019-0008 2022-04-14T05:02:54Z Abstract This paper takes concepts from spatial theory and globalization discourse and uses them in order to analyze the narrative function of descriptions of nature in romantic Icelandic poetry from the beginning of the 19 th century and an Icelandic TV-Series from 2015. In Iceland’s romantic poetry of the early 19 th century, especially in poems written by Bjarni Thorarensen, sublime nature is described as a form of guardian against foreign influences that threaten the way of living on the peripheral island. This romantic concept of Icelandic nature is closely connected to narrative patterns in the process of the Icelandic Nation-Building, as it characterizes Icelanders as simultaneously defined and protected by the harsh conditions on the island. The paper takes a comparative look at the underlying narrative concepts of nature in two of Bjarni Thorarensen’s poems and a recent Icelandic TV series, Baltasar Kormákur’s Ófærð (2015), that presents a different concept of Icelandic nature in its relation to a (threatening) global influence. The series depicts a globalized world in which crime does not only affect remote communities as an evil from the outside but as a local evil connected to forces on global scale. Nature as a narrative device in the TV series thus does not protect Icelanders from global forces, as it did in Bjarni Thorarensens poems in the early 19 th century, but instead functions a catalyst that reveals the evil from the outside and the evil from within. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland De Gruyter (via Crossref) European Journal of Scandinavian Studies 49 1 128 140 |
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Abstract This paper takes concepts from spatial theory and globalization discourse and uses them in order to analyze the narrative function of descriptions of nature in romantic Icelandic poetry from the beginning of the 19 th century and an Icelandic TV-Series from 2015. In Iceland’s romantic poetry of the early 19 th century, especially in poems written by Bjarni Thorarensen, sublime nature is described as a form of guardian against foreign influences that threaten the way of living on the peripheral island. This romantic concept of Icelandic nature is closely connected to narrative patterns in the process of the Icelandic Nation-Building, as it characterizes Icelanders as simultaneously defined and protected by the harsh conditions on the island. The paper takes a comparative look at the underlying narrative concepts of nature in two of Bjarni Thorarensen’s poems and a recent Icelandic TV series, Baltasar Kormákur’s Ófærð (2015), that presents a different concept of Icelandic nature in its relation to a (threatening) global influence. The series depicts a globalized world in which crime does not only affect remote communities as an evil from the outside but as a local evil connected to forces on global scale. Nature as a narrative device in the TV series thus does not protect Icelanders from global forces, as it did in Bjarni Thorarensens poems in the early 19 th century, but instead functions a catalyst that reveals the evil from the outside and the evil from within. |
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Icelandic Nature and Global Evils – Concepts of Nature in Romantic Poetry and Nordic Noir TV Series from Iceland |
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Icelandic Nature and Global Evils – Concepts of Nature in Romantic Poetry and Nordic Noir TV Series from Iceland |
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Icelandic Nature and Global Evils – Concepts of Nature in Romantic Poetry and Nordic Noir TV Series from Iceland |
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