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Suicide and suicidal survival
Vol. 52 No. 2 (2024)This autumn edition of Nordlit focuses on a very uncomfortable theme and contains 12 readings of "texts" in which suicide and suicidal survival are front and centre. Why do some people choose to commit suicide, and why do some suicidal candidates choose not to? How do authors write about suicide, and how can readers approach this topic? Can suicide reveal something genuine about our perspectives on life and death and the grief we experience when loved ones decide to end their own lives? These articles examine how literature and pop cultural phenomena like music, television shows and comics present suicide and suicidal survival.
The editors would like to thank all the authors who write about this complex theme, our contributors, and Rolf Wynn, who wrote this edition’s postscript. And also our peer reviewers. Finally, we would like to dedicate this edition of Nordlit to those who passed away, to all those who are suffering from suicidal thoughts, and to those who have lost loved ones to suicide: a family member, a relative, a partner, a dear friend, a colleague, or an acquaintance. There are many of us.
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Open Issue
Vol. 52 No. 1 (2024)This open issue of Nordlit contains only one article, Christopher Messelt’s examination of ambitions and practices in Thorkild Hansen’s infamous book Prosessen mot Hamsun (1978). The book is contextualized via its historical reception and the genre called «documentarism». Enjoy the article!
The autumn issue of Nordlit is themed and will be out in December.
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Perspectives on Scandinavian Humour
Vol. 51 No. 2 (2023)The second issue of Nordlit 2023 compiles nine articles on the theme Perspectives on Scandinavian Humour. The articles are all developed from papers held att the conference Nordic Humour in the World, arranged by Centre for Scandinavian Studies at Lund University in 2022. Lita Lundquists article examines similarities and differences between the humour of Scandinavian counties using examples from Lars von Trier’s TV-series Riget Exodus (2022). In Lars Burman’s article we are introduced to a literary material from 18th century Sweden, that was popular in its time but that is today largely forgotten. More to the point, the article concerns Johan Risell’s poetry and, specifically, his satire on the Swedish town Åmål. The article is part of a more extensive ambition to reintroduce Risell’s works in the literary history of Sweden. This article is followed by Hadle Oftedal Andersen’s, in which we are acquainted with the authors surrounding the Norwegian student journal Profil during the 1960:s and with this groups absurd brand of humour. Subsequently we find an article by Cecilie Takle, examining the development over time in three different works about Buster Oregon Mortensen. The following article is written by Jonas Lindkvist and consists of a study of masculinity and humour in the two TV-series S*M*A*S*H and Pistvakt. Following this article we find Magdalena Żmuda-Trzebiatowska’s analysis and discussion of the satirical features of Unni Drougges novel Slyngstad Events (2002), in relation to a larger discourse on the Swedish “folkhem”. Anna Smedberg Bondesson, in turn, takes as her point of departure two late collections of poetry by Kristina Lugn, and looks for the specificity of Lugns humour in the particular brand of figurative language that she finds there. Ester Jiresh, subsequently, makes the intersection between humour and feminist activism, in works by Bianca Kronlöf and Liv Strömquist, the center of attention for her article. Lastly we find an article by Christian Liliequist on humour concerning some of the most sensitive and taboo subjects one can imagine. Together these articles constitute a voluminous special issue, focused by the immersive interest in humour shared by the authors, that, at the same time, because of the numerous forms, expressions and contexts can take, is indeed vast in its scope.
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Open Issue
Vol. 51 No. 1 (2023)The 51st issue of Nordlit consists of five articles. Laila Berg explains how and why the Nordic region often is launched as a utopian ideal in contemporary political Scottish discourse, Henrik Torjusen has read Hanna Dahl’s novel Kraft as a text about dignity and the function of the archive in the context of postwar Norwegian debates on war perpetrators, and Henning Howlid Wærp comments the fairly new phenomenon «documentary poetry» in contemporary Norwegian literature via authors such as Rune Tuverud, Espen Stueland, Ingrid Storholmen, and Markus Midré. The two articles by Rolf Gaasland contain reflections on self-scrutiny in Franz Kafka’s story «A Hunger Artist» and how poetry can be understood as «space-creating» acts with readings of Goethe’s and Rilke’s poetry respectively. Enjoy the articles!
Nordlit would like to thank both the contributors and the peer reviewers, who edited and read for us all through the summer. The autumn issue will be released towards the end of the year.
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An Arctic Discovery: Articles in Honour of Marie-Theres Federhofer and Michael Schmidt
No. 50 (2022)Das Jahr 2022 steht für zwei wichtige Jubiläen: Michael Schmidt feiert seinen 70. Geburtstag und wird nach einer langen akademischen Karriere Professor emeritus. Michael ist seit nunmehr 49 Jahren der Universitäts- und Hochschulwelt verbunden und war die letzten 28 Jahre an der Universität Tromsø angestellt. Marie-Theres Federhofer wird 60 Jahre alt und kehrt nach vier Jahren als Henrik-Steffens-Professorin an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin auf ihre Stelle als Professorin für deutsche Literatur an die Universität Tromsø zurück, wo sie zudem als Prodekanin für Forschung an der HSL-Fakultät wirken wird. Diese Jubiläen geben reichlich Anlass zum Feiern, die wir als Freundinnen und Freunde, Kollegen und Kolleginnen, sowie als ehemalige Studierende der Beiden mit dieser Festschrift gebührend würdigen möchten.
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Åpent nummer
Vol. 49 (2022)The year's first Nordlit-volume consists of five unrelated articles. Anne Hemkendreis writes about Thule-stamps that circulated between Greenland and Denmark in the 1930s, Per Esben Myren-Svelstad's article is about the Norwegian author Åsmund Sveen's role as both poet and editor before and during World War II, while Ruben Moi has read the Irish poet Paul Muldoon's lyrical «translation» of the famous Celtic poem «Pangur Bán». Also, Benedikt Jager discusses the influence of drugs in various short stories and novels by the Norwegian author Ingvar Ambjørnsen, and Rikke Andersen Kraglund reads Karl Ove Knausgård's novel The Morning Star as an apocalyptic science fiction-novel. Enjoy the articles!
Nordlit will be back with a special issue in the fall of 2022.
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Conceptualizing the North
No. 46 (2020)Photo: ©NORDTING. Used with permission.
Edited by Kate Maxwell, Lilli Mittner, and Hanne Hammer Stien
The special issue Conceptualizing the North unites theoretical and artistic understandings of and perspectives from ‘the north’. As an area that emerges as forbidding, fragile, and fluid, with stark contrasts, the northern regions of the planet have long fascinated artists and scientists. With climate change threating the ecology of these regions, their - our - future is unknown.
The issue offers a combination of disciplines and approaches, and is deliberately broad in scope. Through its three sections, entitled ‘travelling’, ‘dwelling’, and ‘composing’, the reader is invited to conceptualize the north through visual art, music, poetry, comics, film, history, museums, sagas, and stories. From their standpoint at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, the editors’ opening article presents the north, its communities, those living and working in and on the region, as co-creative kin. We look forward to you joining us.
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Svalbard Studies
No. 45 (2020)Edited by Leonid S. Chekin and Andrei Rogatchevski. Polar bear by Hyperstasis. -
Regular Issue 2019
No. 44 (2019)Edited by Nordlit’s editors. -
Northern Reformations
No. 43 (2019)Edited by Sigrun Høgetveit Berg, Roald E. Kristiansen, and Cathinka Dahl Hambro. Red-church graphic by Torje Jenssen. -
Manufacturing Monsters
No. 42 (2019)Edited by Christian Beyer, Juliane Bockwoldt, Emil Hammar, and Holger Pötzsch. Layout: Chrill. -
Kino i 100
No. 41 (2019)Edited by Roswitha Skare, Mona Pedersen, and Ove Solum. Logo: © Verdensteatret. -
Regular Issue 2018
No. 40 (2018)Edited by Nordlit’s editors. Photography: © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek—Ludwig Wittgenstein [1899–1951] (1930); inventory number Pf 42.805: C(1). -
Russian Space—Concepts, Practices, Representations
No. 39 (2017)Edited by Andrei Rogatchevski and Yngvar B. Steinholt. РСКПР–Спутник logo: Arve Hansen. -
Hamsun i Tromsø VI
No. 38 (2016)Edited by Henning Howlid Wærp and Even Arntzen. -
Living the War
No. 37 (2015)Edited by Ingunn Elstad and Åshild Fause. -
Berørt av bygninger
No. 36 (2015)Edited by Elin Haugdal, Hege Olaussen, Svein Aamold and editorial staff. Photography: © Losvik, Martin. 2014. Art Project Agora Sauna. Sandhornøya i Gildeskål: SALT. -
Arctic Modernities
No. 35 (2015)Edited by Sigfrid Kjeldaas and Anka Ryall. Dedicated to Fredrik Chr. Brøgger. Cover image by Marja Helander. -
Ibsen and World Drama[s]
No. 34 (2015)Edited by Lisbeth Pettersen Wærp. Cover image by Nomen nominandum. -
Rara avis in Ultima Thule
No. 33 (2014)Edited by Per Pippin Aspaas, Sigrid Albert (Saarbrücken), and Fredrik Nilsen. Paper-cut owl by Synnøve des Bouvrie and Sigmund Nesset. -
Narrating the High North II
No. 32 (2014)Edited by Henning Howlid Wærp. Cover image by Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen. -
Border Æsthetics
No. 31 (2014)Edited by Stephen Wolfe. -
Medier, kultur og samfunn
No. 30 (2012)Edited by Hilde Brox, Roswitha Skare, and Holger Pötzsch. -
Narrating the High North I
No. 29 (2012)Edited by Henning Howlid Wærp, Einar-Arne Drivenes, and Robert-Marc Friedman. Cover image by Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen. -
La Décadence ou une Esthétique de la Transgression
No. 28 (2011)Edited by Guri Ellen Barstad and Pirjo Lyytikäinen (Helsinki). -
Regular Issue 2011
No. 27 (2011)Edited by Nordlit’s editors. Garden chalcography: Druckgrafik aus der © Sammlung Albrecht Haupt der Technische-n Informationsbibliothek (TIB); Haupt 1247—Hans Vredeman de Vries [1527–1607]. Hortorum viridariorumque elegantes et multiplices formæ (1568–1583) [–1615]. Antwerp/Cologne. See also page 8 in Nordlit 27: ‘Hage on hage’. -
Regular Issue 2010
No. 26 (2010)Edited by Nordlit’s editors. Photography: © Nasjonalbiblioteket—Cora Sandel [1880–1974] in Paris (1906–1921); inventory number unknown; via Store norske leksikon. -
Hamsun-nummer
No. 25 (2009)Edited by Michael Schmidt and Henning Howlid Wærp. Blurb portrait image by Olav Gulbransson, Atelier Karl Anderson–Augusta Sand, Christiania. -
The Cultural Production and Negotiation of Borders
No. 24 (2009)Edited by Helène Whittaker von Hofsten, Michael Schmidt, and Anne Heith. Photography: Cox, Peter. 2008. Juan Muñoz: A Retrospective, exhibition catalogue. London: Tate Publishing, 22–23—Juan Muñoz’ [1953–2001] The Wasteland (1987) (1986) [part]. Courtesy Collection of Elayne and Marvin Mordes, USA; © The Estate of Juan Muñoz. Read more: Aamold, Svein. 2010. ‘Statuens indre liv’, Nordlit 26, 71–88 [75]. -
Arctic Discourses
No. 23 (2008)Edited by Anka Ryall, Johan Schimanski, and Henning Howlid Wærp. Cover image by Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen. -
Arktiske diskurser
No. 22 (2007)Edited by Michael Schmidt, Stian Sundell Torjussen, and Helène Whittaker von Hofsten. Cover image by Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen. -
Centre–Periphery—The Avant-Garde and the Other
No. 21 (2007)Edited by Per Bäckström, Helène Whittaker von Hofsten, Tanja Kudrjavtseva, and Michael Schmidt. Cover painting by Gösta Adrian-Nilsson [GAN]. -
Regular Issue 2006
No. 20 (2006)Edited by Helène Whittaker von Hofsten, Tanja Kudrjavtseva, and Michael Schmidt. -
Grenser
No. 19 (2006)Edited by Helène Whittaker von Hofsten and Linda Hamrin Nesby. Photography: Benezra, Neal, and Olga M. Viso. 2001. Juan Muñoz, exhibition catalogue. Washington D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Art Institute of Chicago, and University of Chicago Press, 99—Juan Muñoz’ [1953–2001] The Prompter (1988). Courtesy Collection of Elayne and Marvin Mordes, USA; © The Estate of Juan Muñoz. Read more: Aamold, Svein. 2010. ‘Statuens indre liv’, Nordlit 26, 71–88 [76]. -
Regular Issue 2005
No. 18 (2005)Edited by Helène Whittaker von Hofsten, Tanja Kudrjavtseva, and Linda Hamrin Nesby. Book cover: Elfriede Jelinek’s first publication; document copy of ‘Der Viergroschenbogen Folge 76—Blätter für zeitgenössische Literatur und Graphik’ retrieved from Elfriede-Jelinek-Forschungszentrum via Die Sammlungen an der Universität Wien. Jelinek, Elfriede. 1967. Lisas Schatten. München/Würzburg/Bern: Relief-Verlag Eilers. Read more: Theodorsen, Cathrine. 2005. ‘Jelinek und die Tradition’, Nordlit 18, 235–257. -
Til minne om Øystein Rottem (1946–2004)
No. 17 (2005)Edited by Per Bäckström, Linda Hamrin Nesby, and Tanja Kudrjavtseva. Photography: Ørjan Ellingvåg | Dagbladet; see page 5. -
Regular Issue 2004
No. 16 (2004)Edited by Per Bäckström, Linda Hamrin Nesby, and Cathrine Theodorsen. -
Northern Minorities
No. 15 (2004)Edited by Per Bäckström, Kristin Jernsletten, and Cathrine Theodorsen. Cover image by Guttorm Guttormsgaard. -
Regular Issue 2003
No. 14 (2003)Edited by Cathrine Theodorsen and Henning Howlid Wærp. -
Festskrift til Nils Magne Knutsen
No. 13 (2003)Edited by Cathrine Theodorsen and Henning Howlid Wærp. -
Regular Issue 2002
No. 12 (2002)Edited by Atle Skaftun, Cathrine Theodorsen, and Henning Howlid Wærp. -
1700-tallet og romantikkens utspring
No. 11 (2002)Edited by Cathrine Theodorsen, Atle Skaftun, and Henning Howlid Wærp. -
Identitet
No. 10 (2001)Edited by Amilcare Cassanello, Atle Skaftun, Cathrine Theodorsen, and Henning Howlid Wærp. -
Regular Issue 2001
No. 9 (2001)Edited by Amilcare Cassanello, Anniken Greve, Atle Skaftun, and Henning Howlid Wærp. -
Hamsun i lys av Bakhtins teorier
No. 8 (2000)Edited by Amilcare Cassanello, Anniken Greve, Atle Skaftun, and Henning Howlid Wærp. -
Regular Issue 2000
No. 7 (2000)Edited by Amilcare Cassanello, Anniken Greve, Atle Skaftun, and Henning Howlid Wærp. -
Rhetoric across the Humanities
No. 6 (1999)Edited by Astrid Sollid Brokke, Rolf Gaasland, Sandra Lee Kleppe, and Henning Howlid Wærp. -
Regular Issue 1999
No. 5 (1999)Edited by Astrid Sollid Brokke, Rolf Gaasland, Sandra Lee Kleppe, and Henning Howlid Wærp. -
Aspects of Gender and Russian Literature
No. 4 (1998)Edited by Astrid Sollid Brokke, Rolf Gaasland, Sandra Lee Kleppe, and Henning Howlid Wærp. -
Regular Issue 1998
No. 3 (1998)Edited by Astrid Sollid Brokke, Rolf Gaasland, Sandra Lee Kleppe, and Henning Howlid Wærp. -
Europeisk drama, 1600–1800
No. 2 (1997)Edited by Astrid Sollid Brokke, Rolf Gaasland, Sandra Lee Kleppe, and Henning Howlid Wærp. -
Writing and a Sense of Place
No. 1 (1997)Edited by Astrid Sollid Brokke, Rolf Gaasland, Sandra Lee Kleppe, and Henning Howlid Wærp.