Imparting of Polar Research to the 1880’s Public
The International Polar Year 1881/1882 marks a significant change in writing about the Arctic to the middle classes of central Europe. Up to that time many of these reports had been thrilling, dramatizing, and had glorified the own nation. Following the Polar Year, writing gradually became less emot...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:cf47d5c157b042ffb6b51ff75997bb56 2023-05-15T14:55:14+02:00 Imparting of Polar Research to the 1880’s Public Reinhard Mook 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1231 https://doaj.org/article/cf47d5c157b042ffb6b51ff75997bb56 EN NO eng nor Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/1231 https://doaj.org/toc/0809-1668 https://doaj.org/toc/1503-2086 doi:10.7557/13.1231 0809-1668 1503-2086 https://doaj.org/article/cf47d5c157b042ffb6b51ff75997bb56 Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, Vol 12, Iss 1 (2008) Vitenskapshistorie nordområdestudier Polar Year Norwegian literature PT8301-9155 article 2008 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1231 2022-12-30T23:13:56Z The International Polar Year 1881/1882 marks a significant change in writing about the Arctic to the middle classes of central Europe. Up to that time many of these reports had been thrilling, dramatizing, and had glorified the own nation. Following the Polar Year, writing gradually became less emotional, more sober, induced by scientific standards. The present paper will call attention to that change. The study is limited to quotations from two contributions printed in Die Gartenlaube, a German family-magazine edited in the years 1853 through 1944. With its six million readers in the 1880's, this magazine may be considered to mirror the tastes and interests of the broad German public. - The general shift in imparting Arctic topics to the public following the Polar Year could be shown on the 10 per cent significance level: That means the change in the attitude to report more matter-of-fact is significant with the probability of 10 per cent of accidentalness. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic International Polar Year Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Nordlit 12 1 173 |
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The International Polar Year 1881/1882 marks a significant change in writing about the Arctic to the middle classes of central Europe. Up to that time many of these reports had been thrilling, dramatizing, and had glorified the own nation. Following the Polar Year, writing gradually became less emotional, more sober, induced by scientific standards. The present paper will call attention to that change. The study is limited to quotations from two contributions printed in Die Gartenlaube, a German family-magazine edited in the years 1853 through 1944. With its six million readers in the 1880's, this magazine may be considered to mirror the tastes and interests of the broad German public. - The general shift in imparting Arctic topics to the public following the Polar Year could be shown on the 10 per cent significance level: That means the change in the attitude to report more matter-of-fact is significant with the probability of 10 per cent of accidentalness. |
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