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Ebbe Flatau. Litauen I / Lietuva I
No full textLitauen I / Lietuva I is a bilingual Danish-Lithuanian publication of the first part of the autobiography by Ebbe Flatau (b. 1938 in Kaunas), the first Danish lecturer at the Scandinavian Department at Vilnius University. This engaging autobiographical account delves into the author’s family history, which is intricately related to interwar Lithuania. Ebbe Flatau was born into a Danish family that operated a farm close to Kaunas: agricultural reforms and political agreements between Denmark and Lithuania during that period attracted a considerable colony of Danes to the country. In this edition, the previously unpublished original text is presented in parallel with its Lithuanian translation and is supplemented with illustrations, commentary, audio excerpts from conversations with Ebbe Flatau, as well as appendices that include archival documents, Danish and Lithuanian interwar press articles, and documentaries.
Šis dvikalbis, danų ir lietuvių kalbomis parengtas leidinys – tai pirmojo Vilniaus universiteto Skandinavistikos katedros danų kalbos lektoriaus Ebbes Flatau (g. 1938 m. Kaune) autobiografijos dalies, pavadintos Litauen I, publikacija. Įtraukiantis autobiografinis pasakojimas pristato su tarpukario Lietuva susijusią autoriaus šeimos istoriją. To laikotarpio žemės ūkio reformos bei politiniai Danijos ir Lietuvos susitarimai į Lietuvą pritraukė nemažą danų koloniją ir Ebbe Flatau gimė viename iš Lietuvoje įsteigtų daniškų ūkių. Ebbes Flatau autobiografijos tekstas čia publikuojamas pagrečiui su vertimu į lietuvių kalbą ir papildytas iliustracijomis, komentarais, pokalbių su autoriumi įrašų ištraukomis bei priedais – archyviniais dokumentais, danų ir lietuvių tarpukario spaudos straipsneliais, dokumentiniais filmais.
Sudarymas, vertimas iš danų kalbos, komentarai, priedai, iliustracijos / Editing, translation from Danish, comments, appendices, and illustrations by Loreta Vaicekauskienė
Komentarai, priedai, iliustracijos / Comments, appendices, and illustrations by Norbertas Černiauskas
Vertimas į danų kalbą, priedai, iliustracijos / Translation into Danish, appendices, and illustrations by Dixie Simonse
Skandinavien som imago i det ungarske litterære tidsskrift Nyugat (1907/1908–1941): En kritisk læsning af nogle nationale stereotyper og deres efterliv
Full text linkMy study focuses on how national stereotypes characterized the interpretation of Scandinavian literature in the first half of the 20th century in Hungary. In these decades, translation from Danish, Norwegian and Swedish became increasingly intensive, and, thanks to a handful of enthusiastic translators, authors associated with the Modern Breakthrough movement and other late 19th-century tendencies achieved widespread popularity in Hungary. In the analysis I take a closer look at several reviews, translations and essays published in the literary journal Nyugat (1907/1908–1941) where a lot of later prominent Hungarian authors and translators of the period started their career. The imago of Scandinavia created by these authors consists of climatic, anthropological, geographical, political and aesthetic elements. This mythical, distorted and stereotypical image of the Nordic countries exists even today, side by side with a critical reevaluation which actively shapes the academic milieu and the public cultural sphere
The Feminist Potential of Beatrice Helen Barmby’s Gísli Súrsson: A Drama
Full text linkThe late Victorian Britain was fascinated with the ancient North. British literary authors of the second half of the nineteenth century sought inspiration for their novels, poems, and plays in medieval Icelandic imagery. One of these authors was Beatrice Helen Barmby, author of Gísli Súrsson: A Drama. Since her authorship has largely been forgotten, this paper is an attempt to reintroduce her as one of the Victorian enthusiasts of Old Norse literature. Gísli Súrsson: A Drama (1900) is a play based on the medieval Gísla saga Súrssonar. Notably, the adaptation centres around the relationships between the main characters rather than the existential drama of the outlaw Gísli. I argue that the play can be interpreted as an invitation to consider women’s rights, or the Woman Question, a topic which excited heated debates in late nineteenth-century Britain. The play’s depiction of marriage is especially close to the early liberal feminist critique of the inferior role of women as harmful for both women and men. On the other hand, the play portrays Gísli’s wife Aud as a universally stoic and moral character, a domestically emancipated free woman. This paper thus analyses Gísli Súrsson: A Drama as a Victorian work on Old Norse-inspired themes with activist potential
Pre-Modern Nordic Memories in their Literary Contexts
Full text linkThe study of memory has become a central field in saga scholarship in recent years. The present article deals with a number of remarkable mnemonic phenomena in Old Norse-Icelandic narratives. It contextualizes them in biblical, classical, and more modern examples of memory culture. These serve as texts of reference for the Norse narratives that are in the focus of this article. Some of the analyses are inspired by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg’s work on how myth has always already transgressed to memory (reception) and the art historian Aby Warburg’s concept of pathos formulae that produce emotional impacts and mnemonic tropes.Aspects that are treated are for instance acts of commemoration as social and cultural activities, eddic mytho-narratives as stories to remember, the importance of the body and the senses in terms of memory studies, the interrelationship of remembrance and oblivion, and finally pre-modern mediologies. Central texts discussed in the article are eddic poems such as Völuspá (The Seeress’s Prophecy), skaldic poetry and its mnemonic pictorality, Icelandic sagas and historical writings (Icelandic Book of Settlement), examples of folklore. Some outstanding features are stellar memories, the question whether the place of memory is in the human breast or brain, or the importance of avian imagery in narratives about birds as preeminent media of remembering and forgetting.The article has a comparative approach. It attempts to show how Old Norse-Icelandic literature is closely contextualized within a web of Scandinavian and non-Scandinavian narratives and thoroughly shaped by features of cultural memory, shifting constructions of and dealings with ever changing imaginations of pasts
«Å utsette den andre døden»: Snublesteiner i norsk litteratur
Full text linkThe trauma of the Second World War and the Holocaust has been a broadly explored topic in Norwegian culture in the last ten–fifteen years. This, in turn, resulted in a massive popularity of both fiction and non-fiction literature where the topic is prominent, as well as a growing interest in postmemory studies among literary scholars. This paper discusses the motif of Stolpersteine in three Norwegian literary texts, published between the years 2016 and 2019: two novels, No, a Hundred Times No by Nina Lykke, Keep Saying Their Names by Simon Stranger and one essay, “Snublesteinene i Oslo” [“Stoplersteine in Oslo”] by Ole Robert Sunde, published in an anthology entitled The Homeland & Other Stories. Stolpersteine (“stumbling stones”) are commemorative brass plaques in the pavement in front of the last address of victims of National Socialism. This remembrance project was started by the German artist Gunter Demnig in the 1990s and there are now tens of thousands of “stones” placed in over a thousand locations in Europe, also in Norway. The aim of this paper is to answer two questions: firstly, what formal function the motif plays in the three chosen texts and, secondly, how can Stolpersteinene become bearers of memory and postmemory, according to the theoretical framework developed around the topic of war and trauma
Skandinaviske studier og geopolitik: IASS og den kolde krig
Full text linkThe foundation stone for the creation of IASS was laid at the First International Conference on Scandinavian Studies which took place at the University of Cambridge, England, in July 1956. Few months later, the world woke up to the news of the Soviet invasion in Budapest on November 4th, a defining moment in the history of the Cold War, which sent political shock waves and a flow of nearly a quarter-million Hungarian refugees to Western Europe. But how did this tense political situation affect the emerging field of international Scandinavian studies? Drawing on the vast literature of published proceedings from IASS conferences and personal interviews with members of the organization, this article examines how the Cold War geopolitical conflict between the communist East and the capitalist West left its imprint on the activities of IASS in the period from 1956 until the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1989/1991