Cabins in Modern Norwegian Literature: Negotiating Place and Identity - Hardcover

Rees, Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1611476488 ISBN 13: 9781611476484

Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014

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Críticas:

With Cabins in Modern Norwegian Literature, Ellen Rees offers a substantial addition to this developing area of inquiry. She has written a book that not only deals with a highly interesting place in Norwegian culture, but which is also accessible. Ree's book is structured in a synchronic and pedagogical way with ample recapitulation and comparison, guiding the reader through the history of the cabin. Accompanying Rees to the cabins of Norwegian literature is to embark on a journey that is inspiring and pleasurable alike. * Scandinavian Studies * If place by definition is a 'meaningful location,' then Ellen Rees's investigation of the Norwegian cabin is an exemplary demonstration of how such meaning is produced. Tracing the literary and cultural history of this very Norwegian phenomenon from the eighteenth century up to the present, she uncovers the many layers of meaning attached to the cabin and manages to open up a rich array of significant cultural practices and discourses by way of this easily overlooked and pretty small piece of architecture. The ideas are many and well put throughout the book, but first of all it is this close inspection of a particular place of literature and of real life that distinguishes the book and gives it its proper place within the growing field of spatial humanities or place studies. -- Dan Ringgaard, associate professor of Scandinavian literature, Aarhus University, Denmark

Reseña del editor:

Vacation cabins are ubiquitous in Norway, with roughly half the population using them on a regular basis. Through analysis of literary representations of cabins, this book demonstrates that while one tends to think of cabin culture as essentially unchanging over a long span of time, it has in fact changed dramatically over the past two centuries, and that it is an extremely rich and complex cultural phenomenon deeply imbedded in the construction of national identity.

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• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1611476488
• ISBN 13: 9781611476484
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208