Bridges to Scandinavia

Andrea Meregalli, Camilla Storskog

• Publisher: Ledizioni
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9788855260428
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This volume is the final output of a project started in 2013 on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the Scandinavian Section of the University of Milan. A group of scholars working on different European and non-European cultural and literary traditions come together here to discuss the relationships between their areas of study and the Nordic countries. The range of the contributions expands over time and space, from the Middle Ages to the present day, from Poland in the east to the United States in the west, across various European countries. Through various kinds of expertise and different perspectives, this intercultural discourse deals with diverse themes, including the perception of Nordic culture(s) by foreign writers as well as the image of other cultures in Scandinavian works. In particular, the literary and cultural interchange of models and ideas between the North and other areas is investigated in a number of essays devoted to numerous authors, including, among others, Klaus Böldl, Carmen de Burgos, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Gerhart Hauptmann, Henrik Ibsen, Stieg Larsson, Carl von Linné, Rainer Maria Rilke, J.D. Salinger, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Mme de Staël, August Strindberg, and Tomas Tranströmer.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Bibliographic informations
• First pages
• Table of contents
• Preface
• “der sagata mir ze wara”: Iceland in the Merigarto
• Lübeck’s Burgomaster Jürgen Wullenwever and Denmark
• Danesi e svedesi nelle Memorie di Jan Chryzostom Pasek e nel Diluvio di Henryk Sienkiewicz
• A Mock Old Norse Poem in Eighteenth-Century Milan: Francesco Saverio Quadrio’s Versi in lingua runica
• Scandinavian Scientific Learning in Eighteenth- Century British Writing: Linnaeus and the European outlook on nature
• Corinne in the North. Madame de Staël’s Influence on Sophie von Knorring and August Strindberg
• L’Europa dei teatri e i barbari scandinavi
• Vildanden and Hanneles Himmelfahrt. Two Plays about Denied Childhood
• The Temptation of a ‘Nordic Consciousness’. On Rainer Maria Rilke’s Approach to Scandinavian Literature and Society
• L’expédition historique finlandaise à Rome (1909-15) e la storiografia italiana novecentesca
• La Scandinavia di Carmen de Burgos
• Books of innocence and experience. Holden Caulfield’s Scandinavian Brotherhood
• Bridges between the Margins of Europe: Portugal in Tomas Tranströmer’s Oeuvre
• Iceland and Old Norse Poetry in Two Unpublished Texts by Tomas Tranströmer
• Nordic Topographies in Contemporary German Literature: Klaus Böldl’s Studie in Kristallbildung and Südlich von Abisko
• Nordic Crime Fiction in Italy. The Phenomenon Stieg Larsson and His Followers
• Mottagandet av Carlo Emilio gadda i skandinavien: en fråga om översättningssvårigheter? Med en översättning till svenska av ett utdrag ur Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana
• Index of names