| Summary: | This article will examine ways in which Iceland has been fictionally recreated by the foreign imagination and assess to what extent stereotypical images of Iceland are perpetuated, challenged, and/or reconstructed in contemporary foreign fiction. The role of Iceland in fiction from different countries will be discussed and compared, as well as the way Iceland is “contained” in the language of the novel/story. Perspective, form, and national literary context will be also be explored, as well as the “Iceland novel’s” relationship to other writing on Iceland.
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