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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ftunitroemsoe:oai:ojs.henry.ub.uit.no:article/3422 2023-05-15T14:21:40+02:00 Mythos of the North Pole: The Top of the World Frank, Susi K. 2015-04-22 application/pdf https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3422 https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3422 nor nor Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3422/3328 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3422 doi:10.7557/13.3422 Copyright (c) 2015 Susi K. Frank http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY Nordlit; No 35 (2015): Arctic Modernities; 3–12 Nordlit; Nr 35 (2015): Arctic Modernities; 3–12 1503-2086 0809-1668 Mythopoetics Soviet Arctic top of the world theories of the northward course of civilization info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed article Fagfellevurdert artikkel 2015 ftunitroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3422 2021-08-16T15:51:17Z 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 Arctic North Pole University of Tromsø: Septentrio Academic Publishing 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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