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A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 992

A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-02-04
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  • Publisher: BRILL

A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950 is the first publication to deal with the avant-garde in the Nordic countries in this period. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations: literature, visual arts, theatre, architecture and design, film, radio, body culture and magazines. It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective that includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field but in a broader cultural and political context: the pre-war and wartime responses to international developments, the new cultural institutions, sexual politics, the impact of refugees and the new start after the war.

A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1060

A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-08-15
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975 is the final volume of the four-volume series of cultural histories of the avant-garde movements in the Nordic countries. This volume carries the avant-garde discussion forward to present-day avant-gardes, challenged by the globalisation of the entertainment industries and new interactive media such as the internet. The avant-garde can now be considered a tradition that has been made more widely available through the opening of archives, electronic documentation and new research, which has spurred both re-enactments, revisions and continuations of historical avant-garde practices, while new cultural contexts, political, technological and ecological conditions have called for new strategies.

The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1527

The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines

  • Categories: Art

A study of the role of 'little magazines' and their contribution to the making of artistic modernism and the avant-garde across Europe, this volume is a major scholarly achievement of immense value to those interested in material culture of the 20th century.

The Great Debate
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

The Great Debate

English translation of six essays which originally appeared in the Danish journal Tilskueren (The Observer), between August 1889 and May 1890.

Travel Writing and Cultural Transfer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

Travel Writing and Cultural Transfer

Travel Writing and Cultural Transfer addresses the multifaceted concept of cultural transfer through travel writing, with the aim of expanding our knowledge of modes of travel in the past and present and how they developed, as did the way in which travel was reported. Travel as both factual and fictional— with authors and narratives moving between different worlds— is one of the many devices that demonstrate the fluidity of the genre. This fluidity accounts for the manifold and powerful influence of travel writing on processes of cultural transfer. This volume also illustrates that cultural transfer is frequently linked to issues of power, colonialism and politics. The various chapters investigate the transmission of other cultures, ideas and ideologies to the writer’s own cultural sphere and consider how the processes of cultural transfer interact with the forms and functions of travel writing.

Agency on the Page
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

Agency on the Page

A multitude of ideas about individual and distributed agency circulated in Scandinavian culture during the 1960s, a period often designated as the early information age. Through an analysis of six novels, this dissertation discusses how prose fiction in and around the 1960s in Norway, Sweden and Denmark responded and contributed to this circulation of ideas of agency. The study argues that a transition is played out in the novels, from an idea of agency as individualistic and possessive, which I designate as melodramatic, towards an idea of agency as distributed and ecodramatic, emerging in an active environment, where multiple agents, human and non-human, co-exist (these concepts are derive...

Georg Brandes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 351

Georg Brandes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-12-18
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Georg Brandes (1842-1927) was one of the leading literary critics in Europe of his time. His Main Currents of Nineteenth Century Literature (1872-1890) was a foundational text to the field of comparative literature and extolled by Thomas Mann as the “Bible of the young intellectual Europe at the turn of the century.” Georg Brandes eventually developed into a truly global public intellectual, living by his pen and public lectures. On the eve of World War I, he was one of the most sought-after commentators, vigorously opposing all conflicting factions. This book seeks to understand Brandes’ trajectory, to evaluate Brandes’ significance for current discussions of literary criticism and public engagement, and to introduce Brandes to an international audience. It consists of 15 original chapters commissioned from experts in the field.

2015
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 661

2015

The special issue of International Yearbook of Futurism Studies for 2015 will investigate the role of Futurism in the œuvre of a number of Women artists and writers. These include a number of women actively supporting Futurism (e.g. Růžena Zátková, Edyth von Haynau, Olga Rozanova, Eva Kühn), others periodically involved with the movement (e.g. Valentine de Saint Point, Aleksandra Ekster, Mary Swanzy), others again inspired only by certain aspects of the movement (e.g. Natalia Goncharova, Alice Bailly, Giovanna Klien). Several artists operated on the margins of a Futurist inspired aesthetics, but they felt attracted to Futurism because of its support for women artists or because of its ...

Litteratur
  • Language: da
  • Pages: 699

Litteratur

Læs, læs, læs! Spring ind i litteraturens verden, og find ud af, hvorfor personer af papir kan pirre os, hvad bøger kan fortælle om klimaet, hvordan begær fungerer på skrift, og om vi bliver bedre mennesker af at læse litteratur. Men tag denne grundbog med - Litteratur. Introduktion til teori og analyse guider læseren gennem det litterære landskab i 37 kapitler, der hver beskriver et nøje udvalgt, overordnet tema - fra troper, karakterer og genrer over moral, stemme og erindring til oversættelse, performance og remediering. Bogen fratager de teoretiske skoler deres traditionelle forrang og stiller skarpt på, hvordan litteratur bedst kan læses på tværs af forskningsfelter og metoder. Den er baseret på de nyeste faglige indsigter og præsenterer litteraturvidenskabens centrale problemer og værktøjer i en konstant vekslen mellem teoretiske udfordringer og analytiske indsigter.

The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 598

The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-08-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context is a challenging exploration of the transnational formation, dissemination, and transformation of expressionism outside of the German-speaking world, in regions such as Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics and Scandinavia, Western and Southern Europe, North and Latin America, and South Africa, in the first half of the twentieth century. Comprising a series of essays by an international group of scholars in the fields of art history and literary and cultural studies, the volume addresses the intellectual discussions and artistic developments arising in the context of the expressionist movement in the various art centers and cultural regions. The authors also examine the implications of expressionism in artistic practice and its influence on modern and contemporary cultural production. Essential for an in-depth understanding and discussion of expressionism, this volume opens up new perspectives on developments in the visual arts of this period and challenges the traditional narratives that have predominantly focused on artistic styles and national movements.