- 320 pages
- English
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About this book
Birna Bjarnadóttir constructs a deep and comprehensive argument for Bergsson's significance as a master of narrative. Crossing centuries, oceans, and continents, her contextualization of Bergsson's aesthetics stretches from his native land's literary tradition to the cultural domains of Europe and North and South America. Her investigation of his ideas on beauty, love, and belief, presented as a dialogue between Bergsson and numerous other writers and philosophers - Plotinus, Augustine, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Blanchot - is a striking reflection on some of the most important questions of modern times. Recesses of the Mind introduces a profound writer to the international stage. The book's exploration of the cultural periphery is equally significant, suggesting new interpretative strategies for considering cultural contributions from isolated places.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 Aesthetics in Modern Literature: The Mind’s Tormented Love
- 2 Fragments from the History of Aesthetics in Iceland
- 3 The Human Image during the Formative Phases of Christianity and in the Era of the Dizzying Void
- 4 Participation in Beauty
- 5 When Paradoxes Are Allowed to Unfold
- 6 The Roots of Individual Aesthetics: On the Creative Boundaries between Life and Art
- 7 Dialogue with Icelandic Culture and Society
- Epilogue: Consecration to Reality
- Appendix 1 “Ideas on Beauty” (an essay) by Guðbergur Bergsson, translated by Kristjana Gunnars
- Appendix 2 Flatey-Freyr by Guðbergur Bergsson (excerpts from a book of poems), translated by Adam Kitchen
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index