Longing for Light and Love. The Experience of Arctic in Heleen van der Laan’s <i>Waar blijft het licht</i>

Leila Werthschulte

doi:10.7557/13.1352

Longing for Light and Love. The Experience of Arctic in Heleen van der Laan’s Waar blijft het licht

Authors

Leila Werthschulte Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1352

Keywords:

Helene van der Laan, Waar blijft het licht. Een overwintering op Spitsbergen, travel literature,

Abstract

Author Biography

Leila Werthschulte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich

Leila Werthschulte, Dr. phil., studied German literature, Medieval Studies and Theoretical Linguistics in Sarajevo, Vienna, and Munich. She currently teaches German Medieval Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. Her research encompasses medieval historiography, relations between text and image, Germanic mythology, old and new literature on and from the North. In 2007, her book "Heinrich der Löwe in Geschichte und Sage" was published.