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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ftunitroemsoe:oai:ojs.henry.ub.uit.no:article/1231 2023-05-15T14:21:39+02:00 Imparting of Polar Research to the 1880’s Public Mook, Reinhard 2008-02-01 application/pdf https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/1231 https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1231 nor nor Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/1231/1170 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/1231 doi:10.7557/13.1231 Copyright (c) 2008 Reinhard Mook http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC-BY Nordlit; No 23 (2008): Arctic Discourses; 172-182 Nordlit; Nr 23 (2008): Arctic Discourses; 172-182 1503-2086 0809-1668 Vitenskapshistorie nordområdestudier Polar Year info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed article Fagfellevurdert artikkel 2008 ftunitroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1231 2021-08-16T15:27:49Z 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 Arctic International Polar Year University of Tromsø: Septentrio Academic Publishing 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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