Iceland and Images of the North / edited by Sumarlii Ísleifsson with the collaboration of Daniel Chartier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sumarlii R. Ísleifsson.

Chartier, Daniel, 1968-

Series:

Collection Droit au pôle

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--Iceland.

Ethnicity.

Arctic regions--Relations.

Arctic regions.

Iceland--Public opinion--History.

Iceland.

Iceland--Public opinion.

Iceland--Relations.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 611 p.) : ill. (some col.) : 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Quebec : Presses de l'Universite du Quebec ; Iceland : Reykjavik Akademy, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With a radically changing world, cultural identity and images have emerged as one of the most challenging issues in the social and cultural sciences. These changes provide an occasion for a thorough reexamination of cultural, historical, political, and economic aspects of society. The INOR (Iceland and Images of the North) group is an interdisciplinary group of Icelandic and non-Icelandic scholars whose recent research on contemporary and historical images of Iceland and the North seeks to analyze the forms these images assume, as well as their function and dynamics. The 21 articles in this book allow readers to seize the variety and complexity of the issues related to images of Iceland.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Historical Images

The Emergence of Nordrlond in Old Norse Medieval Texts, ca. 1100-1400

Islands on the Edge: Medieval and Early Modern National Images of Iceland and Greenland

The Greco-Roman Heritage and Image Construction in Iceland 1830-1918

Old Norse Pery and New Beginnings in Late 18th- and Early 19th- Century Literature

Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and German Culture

Racist Caricatures in Iceland in the Early 20th Century

Monuments to Settlers of the North: A Means to Strengthen National Identity

Images of the North, Sublime Nature, and a Pioneering Icelandic Nation

Between Nostalgia and Modernity: Competing Discourses in Travel Writing about the Nordic North

Contemporary Images

Banking on Borealism: Eating, Smelling, and Performing the North

Drinking in Iceland and Ideas of the North

Nature, Nostalgia, and Narrative: Material Identity in Icelandic Design

The Use of English in Iceland: Convenience or a Cultural Threat? A lingua Franca or Lingua Detrimental?

The Gender-Equal North: Icelandic Images of Femininity and Masculinity

Staging the Nation: Performing Icelandic Nationality during the 1986 Reykjavik Summit

The New Viking Wave: Cultural Heritage and Capitalism

Foreign Fictions of Iceland

The North and the Idea of Iceland Contemporary Cross-Cultural Construction of Representations of Iceland

Reflecting Images: The Front Page of Icelandic Tourism Brochures

Nation-Branding: A Critical Evaluation. Assessing the Image Building of Iceland.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9782760530874

2760530876

OCLC:

867786117