Iceland as an imaginary place in a European context – some literary representations

• Main Author: Egilsson, Svein Yngvi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Dutch
• Published: University of Groningen Press 2018
• Subjects: Icelandic literature; Romantic poetry; the discourse of the sublime; the idea of the North; pastoral literature; Thomsen; Iceland
• Online Access: https://ugp.rug.nl/tvs/article/view/31561

The article focuses on the image of Iceland and Iceland as an imaginary place in literature from the nineteenth century onwards. It is especially concerned with the aesthetics or discourse of the sublime, claiming that it is the common denominator in many literary images of Iceland. The main propone...