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Category : Iceland
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Iceland Review
Author: Commercial Fisheries Review
Author: Marine Fisheries Review
Author: Man Against Volcano
Author: Richard S. WilliamsPublisher:
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Category : Eldfell (Iceland)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Útrásarvíkingar!
Author: Alaric HallPublisher: punctum books
ISBN: 1950192695
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
As the global banking boom of the early twenty-first century expanded towards implosion, Icelandic media began calling the country's celebrity financiers útrásarvíkingar: “raiding vikings.” This new coinage encapsulated the macho, medievalist nationalism which underwrote Iceland's exponential financialisation. Yet within a few days in October 2008, Iceland saw all its main banks collapse beneath debts worth nearly ten times the country's GDP.Hall charts how Icelandic novelists and poets grappled with the Crash over the ensuing decade. As the first English-language monograph devoted to twenty-first-century Icelandic literature, it provides Anglophone readers with an introduction to one of the world's liveliest literary scenes. It also contributes a key case study for understanding global artistic responses to the early twenty-first century crisis of runaway, unregulated capitalism, exploring the struggles of writers to adapt realist forms of art to surreal times.As Iceland's biggest crisis since their independence from Denmark in 1944, the effect of the Crash on the national self-image was as seismic as its effects on the economy. This study analyses the centrality of whiteness and the abjection of the “developing world” in Iceland's post-colonial identity, and shows how Crash-writing explores the collisions of Iceland's traditional, nationalist medievalism with a dystopian, Orientalist medievalism associated with the Islamic world.The Crash in Iceland was instantly recognised as offering important economic insights. This book shows how Iceland also helps us to understand the cultural convulsions that have followed the Financial Crisis widely in the West.
Architecture in the Scandinavian Countries
Author: Marian Card DonnellyPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262041188
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The most complete survey of Nordic architecture available today.
Books and Periodical Articles on Scandinavian Literature, History, and Biography in the Forrest R. Polk Library
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Traditional Buildings
Author: Allen NoblePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857739026
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Based on a lifelong professional and personal interest, "Traditional Buildings" presents a unique survey of vernacular architecture across the globe. The reader is taken on a fascinating tour of traditional building around the world, which includes the loess cave homes of central China, the stilt houses on the shores of Dahomey, the housebarns of Europe and North America, the wind towers of Iran, the Bohio houses of the Arawak Indians of the Caribbean, and much more. Professor's Noble's extensive travels have allowed him to examine many of the building at close quarters and the richly illustrated text includes photographs from his personal collection. With its comprehensive and detailed bibliography, the work will be welcomed by experts and non-specialists alike.
Geographies of Knowledge and Imagination in 19th Century Philological Research on Northern Europe
Author: Joachim GragePublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527500438
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Comparative philology was one of the most prolific fields of knowledge in the humanities during the 19th century. Based on the discovery of the Indo-European language family, it seemed to admit the reconstruction of a common history of European languages, and even mythologies, literatures, and people. However, it also represented a way to establish geographies of belonging and difference in the context of 19th century nation-building and identity politics. In spite of a widely acknowledged consensus about the principles and methods of comparative philology, the results depended on local conditions and practices. If Scandinavians were considered to be Germanic or not, for example, was up to identity politics that differed in Berlin, Strasbourg, Copenhagen and Paris. The contributors here elaborate these dynamics through analyses of the changing and conflicting versions of imaginative geographies that the actors of comparative philology evoked by using Scandinavian literatures and cultures. They also show how these seemingly delocalized scientific models depended on ever-different local needs and practices. Through this, the book represents the first distinctly transnational dynamic geography and history of the philological knowledge of the North – not only as a history of a scientific discourse, but also as a result of doing and performing scientific work.