Great Immortality Helgason, Jón Karl; Dović, Marijan
2019, Volume:
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Winner of the Excellence Award for Collaborative Research granted by the European Society of Comparative Literature (ESCL) In Great Immortality, twenty scholars from considerably different cultural ...backgrounds explore the ways in which certain poets, writers, and artists in Europe have become major figures of cultural memory.
Tolkien's wizard Gandalf, Wagner's Valkyrie Brünnhilde, Marvel's superhero the Mighty Thor, the warrior heading for Valhalla in Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song, " and Donald Crisp's portrayal of Leif ...Eriksson in the classic film The Viking —these are just a few examples of how Icelandic medieval literature has shaped human imagination during the past 150 years. Echoes of Valhalla is a unique look at modern adaptations of the Icelandic eddas (poems of Norse mythology) and sagas (ancient prose accounts of Viking history, voyages, and battles) across an astonishing breadth of art forms.Jón Karl Helgason looks at comic books, plays, travel books, music, and films in order to explore the reincarnations of a range of legendary characters, from the Nordic gods Thor and Odin to the saga characters Hallgerd Long-legs, Gunnar of Hlidarendi, and Leif the Lucky. Roaming the globe, Helgason unearths echoes of Nordic lore in Scandinavia, Britain, America, Germany, Italy, and Japan. He examines the comic work of Jack Kirby and cartoon work of Peter Madsen; reads the plays of Henrik Ibsen and Gordon Bottomley; engages thought travelogues by Frederick Metcalfe and Poul Vad; listens to the music of Richard Wagner, Edward Elgar, and the metal band Manowar; and watches films by directors such as Roy William Neill and Richard Fleischer, outlining the presence of the eddas and sagas in these nineteenth- and twentieth-century works. Altogether, Echoes of Valhalla tells the remarkable story of how disparate, age-old poetry and prose originally recorded in remote areas of medieval Iceland have come to be a part of our shared cultural experience today—how Nordic gods and saga heroes have survived and how their colorful cast of characters and adventures they went on are as vibrant as ever.
Egil, the viking poet De Looze, Laurence; Jón Karl Helgason; Torfi H. Tulinius
Egil, the viking poet,
2015, 20151215, 2015, 2015-12-15, 2016-01-28, Volume:
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The contributors to this collection of essays approach Egil's story from a variety of perspectives, including psychology, philology, network theory, social history, and literary theory.
Despite poststructuralist rejections of the idea of a singular author-genius, the question of a textual archetype that can be assigned to a named author is still a common scholarly phantasm. This ...volume sets new standards by applying current theoretical approaches to the question of concepts of authorship in medieval and early modern literature. The basic thesis is that authorship is a narratological function rather than an extra-textual entity.
In National Poets, Cultural Saints Marijan Dović and Jón Karl Helgason explore the veneration of artists, writers, and poets in Europe, especially in the period 1840-1940, and present an analytical ...model of canonization for further studies on "cultural sainthood".
Slovensko literarnoznanstveno javnost je poleti razveselila novica, da se je monografija Great Immortality, ki sta jo uredila Marijan Dović in Jón Karl Helgason in je izšla leta 2019 kot 18. zvezek ...zbirke National Cultivation of Culture, pod katero se podpisuje znameniti nizozemski komparativist Joep Leerssen, uvrstila med štiri finaliste za evropsko komparativistično nagrado ESCL – Excellence Award for Collaborative Research. Vse štiri finaliste, izbrane izmed devetnajstih nominiranih knjig z različnih koncev Evrope, so 17. septembra 2021 predstavili na virtualni okrogli mizi, na kateri je mednarodna žirija ESCL (European Society of Comparative Literature) slednjič presodila, da si prestižno nagrado zasluži prav knjiga v uredništvu slovenskega in islandskega komparativista. Nagrada ne pomeni le priznanja urednikoma, temveč tudi avtorjem posameznih prispevkov – med dvajseterico sodelujočih pa najdemo kar sedem slovenskih avtorjev (poleg Dovića še Bojan Baskar, Jernej Habjan, Andraž Jež, Marko Juvan, Alenka Koron in Luka Vidmar). Dragocena je tudi zato, ker v nasprotju z običajno prakso v prvi vrsti spodbuja presežne kolektivne znanstvene projekte in obenem opozarja na vse prevečkrat spregledano vlogo urednikov. – Za urednika nagrajene publikacije, dr. Marijana Dovića, višjega znanstvenega sodelavca in izrednega profesorja na Inštitutu za slovensko literaturo in literarne vede ZRC SAZU, ter dr. Jóna Karla Helgasona, rednega profesorja na Fakulteti za islandske in komparativne kulturne študije na Univerzi v Islandiji, to ni prvo skupno sodelovanje. Skupaj sta namreč napisala monografijo National Poets, Cultural Saints: Canonization and Commemorative Cults of Writers in Europe, ki je izšla leta 2017 pri založbi Brill, prav tako v zbirki National Cultivation of Culture. S kanonizacijo, literarnim kanonom in kulturnimi svetniki se Dović ukvarja že vrsto let. Če se je v delu Prešeren po Prešernu (2017 – monografija je mdr. leta 2018 pristala tudi v finalnem izboru za priznanje Antona Ocvirka) posvetil posmrtnemu življenju pesnika, ki je najtrdneje zasidran v slovensko kulturno zavest in je bil prvi ter obenem zadnji slovenski literat, zaradi katerega je leta 1905 prišlo na odkritje njegovega spomenika okrog 20.000 ljudi, je Dović torišče svojega znanstvenega zanimanja v komparativistični maniri hkrati usmeril na celotno Evropo. V številnih projektih, ki jih je vodil, ter publikacijah, pri katerih je deloval kot urednik – ob že omenjenih dveh velja omeniti vsaj še zbornik Kulturni svetniki in kanonizacija (2016), v katerem je sodelovalo dvajset večinoma slovenskih raziskovalk in raziskovalcev – je Dović deloval po eni strani kot spiritus agens, ki mu je na račun skupnega cilja uspelo povezati tudi zelo heterogene raziskovalce, po drugi strani pa mu je inovativna znanstvena spoznanja vedno znova uspelo prenesti tudi med tako zaželeno »zainteresirano javnost«: na kulturne strani časopisov, na radio, na okrogle mize izven znanstveno-raziskovalnih centrov, pa tudi na družbena omrežja. Z Jónom Karlom Helgasonom, ki se primarno ukvarja z islandsko kulturno zgodovino dvajsetega stoletja in recepcijo islandske srednjeveške književnosti, v zadnjih desetih letih pa se je intenzivno posvečal predvsem fenomenu kanonizacije ter s svojimi raziskavami vedno znova presegal ozko začrtane znanstvene sfere, ju med drugim druži ljubezen do džeza. Z njima smo se pogovarjali mesec dni po prejemu nagrade.
This article discusses the social role of European cultural saints with reference to three nineteenth-century writers: Slovenia's France Preseren, Denmark's Hans Christian Andersen, and Iceland's ...Jonas Hallgrimsson. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
Does there exist a distinct Icelandic ethnic identity in contemporary Canada?
To what degree is it similar and to what degree is it different from the traditional
Icelandic national identity? ...Referring to poetry, telepathic messages and works of
scholarship, as well as interviews with Canadians of Icelandic origin, this paper
tackles these questions. A special emphasis is placed on what Herbert J. Gans has
defined as “ethnic symbols,” such as linguistic ethnic markers, ceremonial holidays and ethnic food. Some of these
symbols, in particular the pastry known as “vínarterta”, suggest not only how different Icelandic ethnic identity in Canada is from Icelandic
national ethnicity, but they also reveal the dire necessity for it to be so.
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