Mythos of the North Pole: The Top of the World
Not a few early twentieth-century cultural histories conceive of the development of humanity in modern times as a northward shift of the civilizational centre. In this thinking, they transform into narrative and geography the static image of a cosmos constructed along one axis of the globe, based on...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:7a3d7aa93c914c238538f2543523506d 2023-05-15T15:05:19+02:00 Mythos of the North Pole: The Top of the World Susi K. Frank 2015-04-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3422 https://doaj.org/article/7a3d7aa93c914c238538f2543523506d EN NO eng nor Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3422 https://doaj.org/toc/0809-1668 https://doaj.org/toc/1503-2086 doi:10.7557/13.3422 0809-1668 1503-2086 https://doaj.org/article/7a3d7aa93c914c238538f2543523506d Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, Iss 35 (2015) Mythopoetics Soviet Arctic top of the world theories of the northward course of civilization Norwegian literature PT8301-9155 article 2015 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3422 2022-12-30T23:14:19Z Not a few early twentieth-century cultural histories conceive of the development of humanity in modern times as a northward shift of the civilizational centre. In this thinking, they transform into narrative and geography the static image of a cosmos constructed along one axis of the globe, based on the Christian story of salvation. In this notion of the cosmos, with its upward-oriented vertical axis understood as a sign of hierarchical order, these histories refer back to a global symbolic legacy with origins in the cosmologies of very different cultures: the idea of the world as a mountain, the world with a mountain and a summit at its centre. In my article I trace the history of this image and its visualization from European antiquity onto the peak of heroic modernism in the first half of the twentieth century. In conclusion I ask what kind of transformation this image underwent to survive in our (still) post-heroic times. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic North Pole Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic North Pole Nordlit 35 3 |
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Not a few early twentieth-century cultural histories conceive of the development of humanity in modern times as a northward shift of the civilizational centre. In this thinking, they transform into narrative and geography the static image of a cosmos constructed along one axis of the globe, based on the Christian story of salvation. In this notion of the cosmos, with its upward-oriented vertical axis understood as a sign of hierarchical order, these histories refer back to a global symbolic legacy with origins in the cosmologies of very different cultures: the idea of the world as a mountain, the world with a mountain and a summit at its centre. In my article I trace the history of this image and its visualization from European antiquity onto the peak of heroic modernism in the first half of the twentieth century. In conclusion I ask what kind of transformation this image underwent to survive in our (still) post-heroic times. |
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