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Introduction to Nordic cultures / edited by Annika Lindskog and Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen. - 1 online resource : illustrations.

This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).

Part I, Identities. 1. Viking-Age Scandinavia: identities, communities and kingdoms ; 2. The North: territory and narrated nature ; 3. Narrating nations: Iceland and Finland in texts ; 4. Modern experiences ; 5. The Nordic welfare model -- Part II, Texts. 6. The trial of Bróka-Auðr: invisible bureaucracy in an Icelandic Saga ; 7. Nora: the life and afterlife of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House ; 8. Nordic noir ; 9. North Atlantic drift: contemporary Greenlandic and Sami literatures ; 10. New Scandinavians, new narratives -- Part III, Images. 11. Nordic nature: from romantic nationalism to the Anthropocene ; 12. Emigration and Scandinavian identity ; 13. Film and the welfare state: three informational films about healthcare ; 14. Stereotypes in and of Scandinavia.


Electronic reproduction.
London :
UCL Press,
2020.
Available in PDF format.
Description based on contents viewed 13 May 2020.

ISBN: 9781787354012 9781787354005 9781787353992 9781787354029 9781787354036

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Scandinavia--History.
Scandinavia--Civilization.