Critical Approaches to Sjón (eBook, ePUB)

North of the Sun
Redaktion: Badley, Linda; Mose, Gitte; Dagsdóttir, Úlfhildur

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Critical Approaches to Sjón: North of the Sun is the first English-language book-length study of the works of the Icelandic contemporary poet, Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson, who is considered by some to be Iceland's most distinctive and multifaceted contemporary author.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040086155
• Artikelnr.: 72271378

Autorenporträt

Linda Badley is Professor Emerita of English and Film Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. Úlfhildur Dagsdóttir is an Icelandic literature scholar. Gitte Mose is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Oslo.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
A Note on Translation
Introduction
Linda Badley, Úlfhildur Dagsdóttir, and Gitte Mose
Part I: The Voices of Sjón
1. The Pleasures and Challenges of Recreating Sjón's Voice
Victoria Cribb
2. The Author is In: Moonstone, Authorship, Reading, and Intertextuality
(or The Boy Who Became a Story)
Úlfhildur Dagsdóttir
Part II: Surrealism
3. Oh! Sjón, the Poet 1978-1986
Erik Skyum-Nielsen
4. Sjón's Nuclear Dystopia: Reflections on Stálnótt, Medúsa, and Johnny
Triumph's Musical Career
Jón Karl Helgason
5. "Beneath the veil of happenings": Sjón, the Norse Visionary of
Surrealism's Deep History
Delia Ungureanu
Part III: Transmedia, Miscellanea
6. Moonstone: The Cinema that Always Was
Janica Tomi¿
7. Sjón at the Movies
Björn Nordfjörd
8. The Drop Tower, the Roller Coaster, the Whirling Cups: Sjón-Miscellanea
and Things
Gitte Mose
Part IV: History, Ethics, Politics, and Storytelling
9. Sjón and the Long Icelandic Medieval Past
Carolyne Larrington
10. Transnational and Counter-Memorial Practices: Antisemitism,
Nationalism, and the Second World War in Sjón's Works
Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir
11. The Narratable Self: Natality and the Politics of Storytelling in
CoDex 1962
Anne Fogarty
Part V: Queer Ecologies: Hybridity, Disability, Ecopoetics
12. The End of the World as We Know It: Queerness and Utopias in Sjón's
Poetry and Prose
Asta Kristin Benediktsdóttir
13. Human-Animal Bodies in The Blue Fox and CoDex1962
Avril Tynan
14. Sjónian Ecopoetics
Linda Badley
Epilogue: Sjón in His Own Voice
Appendix: A Chronology of Sjón's Life and Writings
Index