From Iceland to the Americas (eBook, ePUB)

Vinland and historical imagination
Redaktion: Machan, Tim William; Helgason, Jón Karl

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson's visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have all come to reflect rising interest in the medieval Norse and their North American presence. Uniquely in reception studies, From Iceland to the Americas approaches this dynamic between Nordic history and its reception by bringing together international authorities on mythology, language, film and cultural studies, as well as on the literature that has dominated critical reception. Collectively, the chapters not only explore the connections among medieval Iceland and the modern Americas, but also probe why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526128775
• Artikelnr.: 59141762

Autorenporträt

Tim William Machan is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame Jón Karl Helgason is Professor of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Vinland on the brain: remembering the Norse - Tim William
Machan Part I: Imagination and ideology 2 Journeys to the centre of the
mind: Iceland in the literary and the professorial imagination - Seth Lerer
3 The 'Viking tower' in Newport, Rhode Island: fact, fiction, and film -
Kevin J. Harty 4 Critiquing Columbus with the Vinland sagas - Matthew
Scribner 5 Vinland and white nationalism - Verena Höfig Part II: Landscapes
and cultural memory 6 Migration of a North Atlantic seascape: Leif
Eiriksson, the 1893 World's Fair, and the Great Lakes landnám - Amy C.
Mulligan 7 Norwegian-American 'missions of education' and Old Norse
literature - Bergur Þorgeirsson 8 Americans in Sagaland: Iceland travel
books 1854-1914 - Emily Lethbridge 9 The good sense to lose America:
Vinland as remembered by Icelanders - Simon Halink Part III: Recasting the
past 10 Spectral Vikings in nineteenth-century American poetry - Angela
Sorby 11 'Who is this upstart Hitler?': Norse gods and American comics
during the Second World War - Jón Karl Helgason 12 'There's no going back':
The Dark Knight and Balder's descent to Hel - Dustin Geeraert 13 Old Norse
in the New World: the mythology of emigration in Neil Gaiman's American
Gods - Heather O'Donoghue Bibliography Index