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| Author | Page | Title |
|---|---|---|
| vii | Editor's Introduction | |
| THE SCANDINAVIAN PRESENCE IN CANADA | ||
| Mauri A. Jalava | 3 | The Scandinavians as a Source of Settlers for the Dominion of Canada: The First Generation, 1867-1897 |
| Jørgen Dahlie | 15 | The Ethnic Press as a Cultural Resource: Canada Skandinaven and the Norwegian-Swedish Community in B.C., 1910-1930 |
| Christopher S. Hale | 27 | Aksel Sandemose and Ross Dane: A Scandinavian's Perception of Western Canada |
| David Martin | 35 | Folk Technology Retention: Finnish Folk Tools and Procedures in Mid-Canada and Central Finland |
| SCANDINAVIA AND THE WIDER WORLD | ||
| H. Roe | 49 | The Origins and Spread of Literacy in Early Scandinavia |
| Bernadine McCreesh | 55 | Ghosts and Pagans in the Family Sagas |
| William Sayers | 63 | The Irish Bóand-Nechtan Myth in the Light of Scandinavian Evidence |
| Deborah J. McGinnis | 79 | The Vikings in the East: ingvars saga viðförla |
| Anthony B. Chan | 87 | Scandinavian Arms Traders in Warlord China |
| M. N. Matson | 97 | The Theatre's Approach to Strindberg: Four Productions in the Strindberg Festival, Stockholm, May 1981 – Brott och brott; Fadern; Fadren, en opera; Il padre |
| DETECTIVE NOVELS AS SOCIAL CRITICISM AND OTHER VARIATIONS ON SCANDINAVIAN THEMES | ||
| Dieter K. H. Riegel | 109 | Society and Crime in the Novels of Hans Scherfig |
| Peter Ohlin | 115 | The Ideology of the Martin Beck Novels |
| Charles Leland | 123 | Daniel Haakonsen's View of Ibsen, with Special Reference to His Last Book |
| W. S. W. Nowak | 129 | A Contribution to the Understanding of the Biogeography of a Sub-Arctic Lake: The Case of Mývatn, Iceland |
| Ingunn Norderval | 143 | The Norwegian Prime Minister |
| Elin Elgaard | 161 | No Time for Timelessness? A brief look at the trio: Tove Ditlevsen (1918-76) Frank Jaeger (1926-77) Ole Sarvig (1921-81) who all died by their own hand |
| Author | Page | Title |
|---|---|---|
| vii | Editor's Introduction | |
| SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE – AND LITERATURE IN SCANDINAVIA | ||
| Errol Durbach | 3 | The Eclectic Theatricalism of Miss Julie |
| Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey | 11 | Punch's "Hedda": An Approach to Ibsen Through Parody |
| Antony Landon | 27 | Current Treatment of Shakespeare's Tragedies in Finland |
| Kathryn S. Hanson | 39 | Adam Oehlenschläger's Romanticism: Not a German Hybrid, but a Danish Original |
| Harald S. Naess | 51 | Hamsun ---- Victoria ----- Victoria |
| Marshall N. Matson | 59 | Rönnog Seaberg's Utrest: An Apologia |
| THE SCANDINAVIAN PRESENCE IN CANADA | ||
| James M. Richtik | 73 | Chain Migration Among Icelandic Settlers in Canada to 1891 |
| Alan B. Anderson | 89 | Scandinavian Settlements in Saskatchewan: Migration History and Changing Ethnocultural Identity |
| POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL CONCERNS IN SCANDINAVIA --- PAST AND PRESENT | ||
| Stewart P. Oakley | 117 | Self-help and Co-operation in the Scandinavian Peasant Community |
| Mark B. Lapping | 129 | Between Swede and Saami: The Reindeer Herd Rationalization Law |
| Richard Cornell | 137 | The Controversy in Denmark in 1938-1939 over Freedom of Expression |
| Patricia Appavoo | 149 | Domestic Politics and Development Assistance: A Canada-Sweden Comparison of Recipient Selection |
| Gunnar Eliasson | 167 | Is the Swedish Welfare State in Trouble? A New Policy Model |
| Author | Page | Title |
|---|---|---|
| v | Editor's Introduction | |
| HISTORICO-POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES | ||
| Helge Ø. Pharo | 1 | Norway and European Integration |
| Lewis R. Fischer and Helge W. Nordvik | 17 | Floating Capital: Investment in the Canadian and Norwegian Merchant Marines in Comparative Perspective, 1850-1914 |
| FROM DRAMA AND CONTROVERSIAL WRITING TO FILM | ||
| Paul Walsh | 43 | Realism and Innovation in Stringberg's Mäster Olof |
| Marina Allemano | 61 | Suzanne Brøgger and Eros |
| Peter Ohlin | 73 | Through a Glass Darkly: Figurative Language in Ingmar Bergman's Script |
| THE MEETING OF TWO CULTURES | ||
| William Sayers | 89 | Kjartan's Choice: The Irish Disconnection in the Sagas of the Icelanders |
| J. Donald Wilson | 115 | Kalevala in Sointula: The Intellectual Background of Matti Kurikka |
| Marianne Stenbaek | 133 | Arqaluk Lynge ----- Poet and Politician |
| Author | Page | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Gurli Aagaard Woods | v | Introduction |
| SCANDINAVIANS IN CANADA | ||
| Anne Brydon | 1 | Celebrating Ethnicity: The Icelanders of Manitoba |
| Jørgen Dahlie | 15 | From Kongsberg to the Pacific Northwest: Norwegian Immigrants and the Development of Skiing, 1920-1950 |
| Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir | 27 | The Polarization of Sound Change in Different Social Contexts: The Development of Icelandic in North America and Iceland |
| WRITERS OF SCANDINAVIAN ORIGIN | ||
| Cristina Gheorghe | 43 | Intertextual Notes in a Metafictional Autobiography: The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars |
| Cristina Gheorghe and Kristjana Gunnars | 51 | Interview with Kristjana Gunnars about The Prowler |
| Christopher Hale | 61 | Aksel Sandemose's View of Prairie Canada |
| ASPECTS OF SOCIAL LIFE IN SCANDINAVIA | ||
| Lewis R. Fischer and Helge Nordvik | 77 | Norwegian Matroser: Wages and Labour Markets for Seafaring Labour, 1850-1914 |
| Will. C. van den Hoonaard | 97 | A Nation's Innocence: Myth and Reality of Crime in Iceland |
| LITERATURE AND THEATRE IN SCANDINAVIA | ||
| Thomas Bredsdorff | 115 | Holberg: A Scandinavian Slant on the European Enlightenment |
| Christian Roy | 123 | J.P. Jacobsen in the Context of the Intellectual History of Europe |
| Dieter Riegel | 141 | Thorkild Hansen's Jens Munk |
| Author | Page | Title |
|---|---|---|
| William Sayers | 1 | Bragi Boddason, the First Skald, and the Problem of Celtic Origins |
| Peter Harcourt | 19 | Journey into Silence: an aspect of the late films of Ingmar Bergman |
| Errol Durbach | 29 | Nora as Antigone: the feminist tragedienne and social legality |
| Christian Roy | 43 | À la rencontre de Dionysos: Edith Södergran entre Nietzsche et Bataille |
| Seija Paddon | 65 | Aleksis kivi and the Finnish Georgics |
| Rochelle Wright | 81 | Delblanc's Kanaans land and Moberg's Emigrant Tetralogy: intertextuality and transformation |
| Reviews / Comptes Rendus | ||
| 95 | Errol Durbach. A Doll's House: Ibsen's Myth of Transformation (Boston, 1991) reviewed by Charles Leland | |
| 97 | Henning Bender and Birgit Flemming Larsen, eds. Danish Emigration to Canada (Viborg, 1991) reviewed by Kirsten Wolf | |
| 99 | Janet Garton and Henning Sehmsdorf, eds. New Norwegian Plays (Norwich, 1989) reviewed by John Lingard | |
| 102 | Phyllis Moen. Working Parents: Transformations in Gender Roles and Public Policies in Sweden (Madison, Wisconsin, 1989) reviewed by Carol Agócs | |
| 104 | Poul Houe, ed. The Nordic Roundtable Papers (University of Minnesota, 1989-1992) reviewed by Wolfgang Ahrens | |
| Author | Page | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Viðar Hreinsson | 1 | Western Icelandic Literature, 1870-1900 |
| Constance B. Hieatt | 15 | Problems Posed by the Early Medieval Recipe Collection in Danish and Icelandic: culinary confusion compounded? |
| Peter G. Christensen | 27 | The Treatment of Mesmerism in Per Olov Enquist's Magnetisörens femte vinter |
| Richard Apostle and Knut H. Mikalsen | 47 | The Politics of Fisheries Management: preliminary comparisons of regulatory regimes in North Norway and Nova Scotia |
| Ingunn Norderval | 75 | The Recruitment and Representation of Women in Norwegian Provincial Politics |
| Janet E. Rasmussen | 99 | Governing Norwegian Universities in the 1990's |
| Reviews / Comptes Rendus | ||
| 111 | Matti Klinge. The Finnish Tradition: Essays on Structures and Identities in the North of Europe (Helsinki, 1993) reviewed by J. Donald Wilson | |
| 114 | Elinor Berglund Barr. The Swedish Experience in Canada: An Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Books and Articles Relating to the Swedish Experience in Canada (Växjö, 1991) reviewed by Joan Magee | |
| 116 | Bjerrum Nielsen, Harriet and Torill Steinfeld, eds. Nora, Nordic Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1993) reviewed by Seija Paddon | |
| Author | Page | Title |
|---|---|---|
| William Sayers | 1 | The Arctic Desert (Helluland) in Bárðar saga |
| Raimo Anttila and Sheila Embleton | 25 | On the Origin of Suomi "Finland" |
| Paul Baxter | 33 | The 'Heroic Age' in Ibsen and Hegel |
| Harold C. Knutson | 49 | Forms of Address in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler |
| Fred Thompson | 65 | Heavenward Bound: Lewerentz's Vision of Funeral Architecture |
| Peter Ohlin | 79 | Four Images in Bergman: Representation as Liminality and Transgression |
| Reviews / Comptes Rendus | ||
| 93 | Lars Vikør. The Nordic Languages: Their Status and Interrelations. (Oslo, 1993) --- reviewed by Sheila Embleton | |
| 99 | Marina Mundt. Zur Adaption orientalischer Bilder in den Fornaldarsögur Norðrlanda. Materialien zu einer neuen Dimension altnordischer Belletristik. (Frankfurt am Main, 1993) --- reviewed by Kirsten Wolf | |
| 102 | Birgit and Peter Sawyer. Medieval Scandinavia: From Conversion to Reformation, circa 800-1500. (Minneapolis and London, 1993) ---- reviewed by William Sayers | |
| 107 | William Richard Mead. An Experience of Finland. (London, 1993) ---- reviewed by J. Donald Wilson | |
| 110 | Will C. can den Hoonard. Reluctant Pioneers. Constraints and Opportunities in an Icelandic Fishing Community. (New York, 1992) --- reviewed by Richard Apostle | |
| 114 | Janet E. Rasmussen. New Land New Lives: Scandinavian Immigrants to the Pacific Northwest. (Seattle and London; and Northfield, Minnesota, 1993) --- reviewed by Jørgen Dahlie | |
| 116 | Sven H. Rossel, ed. A History of Danish Literature. A History of Scandinavian Literatures. Volume I. (Lincoln & London, 1992) ---- reviewed by Hans Møller | |
| 119 | Palle Bo Bojesen. New Denmark, New Brunswick: Udviklingen i en dansk udvandrerkoloni 1872-1914. (Århus, Denmark, 1992) --- reviewed by Christopher Hale | |
| 121 | Chris Christiansen. Seven Years among Prisoners of War. Translated by Ida Egede Winther. (Athens, Ohio, 1994) --- reviewed by Christopher English | |
| Author | Page | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jussi M. Hanhimäki | 1 | In Search of Security: Finland and the Soviet-American Confrontation, 1945-1961 |
| Daisy Neijman | 19 | Laura Goodman Slaverson, Guttormur J. Guttormsson, and the Dual World of Second-Generation Canadian Authors |
| Christopher S. Hale | 37 | Ethnic Minorities on the Canadian Prairies in the Writings of Aksel Sandemose and Sven Delblanc |
| William Sayers | 57 | Power, Magic and Sex: Queen Gunnhildr and the Icelanders |
| Peter G. Christensen | 79 | Sibelius, Kullervo and Fate Tragedy |
| Reviews / Comptes Rendus | ||
| 103 | Gurli A. Woods, ed. Isak Dinesen and Narrativity: Reassessments for the 1990's (Ottawa, 1994) ---- reviewed by Marina Allemano | |
| 109 | Pamela Wild. Sointula: Island Utopia (Madeira Park, 1995) ---- reviewed by J. Donald Wilson | |
| 112 | Nelma Sillanpää. Under the Northern Lights: My Memories of Life in the Finnish Community of Northern Ontario. Edited by Edward Laine (Hull, 1994) ---- reviewed by Varpu Lindström | |
| 113 | Börje Vähämäki. Mastering Finnish (New York, 1994) ---- reviewed by John Dingley | |
| 115 | Preben Meulengracht Sørensen. Fortælling og ære: Studier i islændingesagaerne (Århus, 1993) ---- reviewed by Patricia Bethel | |
| 119 | Anthony Faulkes and Richard Perkins, eds. Viking Revaluations: Viking Society centenary symposium, 14-15 May 1992 (London, 1993) ---- reviewed by Patricia Bethel | |
| 122 | Sven H. Rossel, ed. Ludvig Holberg – A European Writer: A Study in Influence and Reception (Amsterdam and Atlanta, 1994) ---- reviewed by Thomas Bredsdorff | |
| 126 | Johannes Væth. Aksel Sandemoses Canada. Rejsebetragtninger i udvalg 1927-28 (Herning, Denmark, 1994) ---- reviewed by Christopher Hale | |
| 128 | Sarah Death and Helena Forsås-Scott, eds. A Century of Swedish Narrative: Essays in Honour of Karin Petherick (Norwich, 1994) ---- reviewed by Marshall N. Matson | |
| 132 | Ivar Lo-Johannson. Peddling My Wares. Translated by Rochelle Wright (Columbia, South Carolina, 1995) ---- reviewed by Christopher Hale | |
| Author | Page | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Kai R. Pedersen | 1 | Laying the Foundations of Labour's Postwar Hegemony Norwegian Wartime Planning, 1940-45 |
| Ingunn Norderval | 17 | The Provincial Mayor in Norway: Role Development and Role Perception |
| William Sayers | 49 | Unique Nicknames in Landnámabók and the Sagas of the Icelanders: The Case of Porleifr kimbi Porbrandsson |
| Kirsten Sheperd-Barr | 73 | "Le grand metteur en scène": Herman Bang in Paris, 1893-94 |
| Seija Paddon | 91 | New Historicism and the Prose of Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Leena Lander's Cast a Long Shadow |
| Reviews / Comptes Rendus | ||
| 105 | Sigbjørn Hølmebakk. The Carriage Stone (Chester Springs, Penn.)---- reviewed by Christopher Hale | |
| 107 | Kirsten A. Seaver. The Frozen Echo. Greenland and the Exploration of North America ca A.D. 1000-1500 (Stanford, California) ---- reviewed by Wolfgang P. Ahrens | |
| 111 | Åke Daun.. Swedish Mentality. Translated by Jan Teeland (University Park, 1996) ---- reviewed by J. Donald Wilson | |
| 113 | Olavi Koivukangas. From the Midnight Sun to the Long White Cloud: Finns in New Zealand (Turku, 1996) ---- reviewed by Mika Roinila | |
| Author | Page | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Pam Perkins | 1 | Mary Wollstonecraft's Scandinavian Journey |
| Seija Paddon | 23 | Juha K. Tapio's Frankenstein's Notebook and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus: Whose Monster is he, anyway? |
| Errol Durbach | 35 | Ibsen, Rank and Freud: Rosmersholm and the Discourse of Viennese Psychiatry |
| Daisy Neijmann | 53 | Community and Identity in Icelandic-Canadian Literature |
| Reviews / Comptes Rendus | ||
| 77 | Jussi M. Hanhimäki. Containing Coexistence: America, Russia, and the "Finnish Solution", 1945-1956. (Kent, Ohio, 1997) ---- reviewed by Christopher English | |
| 82 | Daniel Abondolo. Colloquial Finnish: The Complete Course for Beginners (with dialogues by Hanna Björklund and Elina Multanen). (London and New York, 1998) ---- reviewed by John Dingley | |
| 87 | Daisy L. Neijmann. The Icelandic Voice in Canadian Letters: The Contribution of Icelandic-Canadian Writers to Canadian Literature. (Ottawa, 1997) ---- reviewed by Bodvar Gudmundson | |
| 91 | George S. Schoolfield. Helsinki of the Czars: Findland's Capital, 1808-1918 (Columbia, South Carolina, 1996) ---- reviewed by Varpu Lindström | |
| 93 | Tuula Hökkä, ed. Naiskirja. [A collection of essays about literature, feminist research, and culture]. (Helsinki, 1996) ---- reviewed by Seija Paddon | |
| 96 | Elinor Barr. The Scandinavian Home Society, 1923-1993: A Place to Meet, a Place to Eat (Thunder Bay, 1996) ----reviewed by J. Donald Wilson | |
| Author | Page | Title |
|---|---|---|
| i | Foreword | |
| Christopher Hale | 1 | Go West, Young Dane: Danish Settlements on the Canadian Prairies |
| Joe Allard | 15 | Homer, Aristotle and the Sagas of the Icelanders |
| Jörgen Dahlie | 35 | Ethnic Persistence and Presence: Some Norwegian Sightings in British Columbia |
| Finn Stendal Pedersen | 55 | The Politician Grundtvig (1783-1872): A Liberal in the Danish Constituent Assembly of 1849 |
| Douglas Nord | 75 | Multiculturalism Reconsidered: Swedish and Canadian Political Responses to Migration Issues in the 1990's |
| John Lingard | 101 | Breaking the Frame: Idea and Image in Kjeld Abell's The Blue Pekinese |
| Author | Page | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Marina Allemano | 4 | Mermaids Losing Their Heads A Study of the Mermaid Cult in Andersen, Ibsen, and Svendsen |
| Joe Allard | 18 | Revolution and Innovation in Icelandic Art Since 1980 The Poetry, Fiction and Film Writing of Einar Már Guðmundsson |
| Daisy Neijmann | 40 | Damned with Faint Praise The Reception of Laura Goodman Salverson's Works by the Icelandic-Canadian Community |
| Frederick Hale | 64 | Waging War on Three Feminist Fronts Ester Lindin's Campaign for Women's Emancipation in Tänk, om jag gifter mig med prästen! |
| Seija Paddon | 82 | The Altered Forms of the Idea of Community in Contemporary Finnish Poetry |
| John Dingley | 95 | Review Article: Finnish: An Essential Grammar by Fred Karlsson |
| J. Donald Wilson | 107 | Review of Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A Historical Geography of the Finns in the Sudburv Area by Oiva W. Saarinen |
| Marina Allemano | 110 | Review of Out of Isak Dinesen in Africa: Karen Blixen's Untold Story by Linda Donelson |
| Author | Page | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Noel D. Broadbent | 6 | Northern Pasts, Northern Futures An Archaeological Project on Cultural Interactionism and Climate Change in Northern Sweden, 9000 B.C. to A.D. 1800 |
| Andrei V. Golovnev | 22 | Peoples and Borders of the Russian North Ethnicity in a Political Environment |
| Lassi Heininen | 36 | Finland as a Nordic Country, and as a European State |
| Marianne Lykke Thomsen | 50 | Challenges of Economic Development in Greenland Involving Strategies of International Co-operation |
| Daisy Neijmann | 62 | "Beyond Icelandic" Teaching in a Heritage Language and Literature Department |
| Christopher English | 74 | Njal in Vinland Contextualizing Canadian Law |
| Angela Carr | 81 | Review Article. Baltic Light: Early Open-Air Painting in Denmark and Northern Germany by Catherine Johnston, Helmut Börsch-Supan, Helmut R. Leppien, and Kaspar Monrad |
| Seija Paddon | 91 | Review of Beyond Ambivalence: Postmodernity and the Ethics of Translation by Kaisa Koskinen |
| John Lingard | 93 | Review Article. Ibsens samtidsskuespill: En studie i glasskapets dramaturgi by Asbjørn Aarseth |
| Author | Page | Title |
|---|---|---|
| WILLIAM SAVERS | 1 | Gender Ambiguity in Medieval Iceland Legal Framework and Saga Dynamics |
| ERROL DURBACH | 28 | "Who is Solveig? What is she?" Four dénouements at Vinstra |
| JOHN LINGARD | 42 | The Echo in the Mountains J.S. Welhaven's Metaphor for Poetry |
| FREDERICK HALE | 70 | Women's Reproductive Rights and
Sexual Enlightenment in Signe Hasso's Momo |
| WENCHE LARSEN | 86 | Austria: Location of a Traumatic Scene Wittgenstein in Cecilie Løveid's Østerrike |
| CHARITY MARSH | 104 | Performing Femininity as a
Transgressive Act Björk's Selma in Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark |
| SUSAN GOLD-SMITH | 130 | The Sights of Early Science A Visual Artist's Response to the Uppsala Natural History Collections |
| N.F. DREISZIGER | 145 | Review of From Heroes to Enemies: Finns in Canada, 1937-1947 by Varpu Lindstrom |
| CHRISTOPHER HALE | 147 | Review of Colloquial Icelandic: The Complete Course for Beginners by Daisy 1. Neijmann |