Icons Of Danish Modernity
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Icons Of Danish Modernity
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Author : Julie K. Allen
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2013-07-15
Icons Of Danish Modernity written by Julie K. Allen and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-15 with History categories.
Julie Allen utilizes the lives and friendship of the Danish literary critic George Brandes (1842-1927) and the silent film star Asta Nielsen (1881-1972) to explore questions of culture and national identity in early twentieth-century Denmark. Danish culture and politics were influenced in this period by the country's deeply ambivalent relationship with Germany. Brandes and Nielsen, both of whom lived and worked in Germany for significant periods of time, were seen as dangerously cosmopolitan by the Danish public, even while they served as international cultural ambassadors for the very society that rejected them during their lifetimes. Allen argues that they were the prototypical representatives of a socially liberal and culturally modern "Danishness" (Danskhed) that Denmark itself only gradually (and later) grew into. This lively study brings its central characters to life while offering an original, thought provoking analysis of the origins and permutations of Danish modernism and Danish national identity--issues that continue to be significant in today's multi-ethnic Denmark. Icons of Danish Modernity is a book about the uneasy waves that arise when celebrities take on national symbolism, and the beginnings of this formula in the early twentieth century.
Icons Of Danish Modernity
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Author : Julie K. Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Icons Of Danish Modernity written by Julie K. Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Denmark categories.
Julie Allen utilizes the lives and friendship of the Danish literary critic George Brandes (1842-1927) and the silent film star Asta Nielsen (1881-1972) to explore questions of culture and national identity in early twentieth-century Denmark. Danish culture and politics were influenced in this period by the country's deeply ambivalent relationship with Germany. Brandes and Nielsen, both of whom lived and worked in Germany for significant periods of time, were seen as dangerously cosmopolitan by the Danish public, even while they served as international cultural ambassadors for the very society that rejected them during their lifetimes. Allen argues that they were the prototypical representatives of a socially liberal and culturally modern "Danishness" (Danskhed) that Denmark itself only gradually (and later) grew into. This lively study brings its central characters to life while offering an original, thought provoking analysis of the origins and permutations of Danish modernism and Danish national identity--issues that continue to be significant in today's multi-ethnic Denmark. Icons of Danish Modernity is a book about the uneasy waves that arise when celebrities take on national symbolism, and the beginnings of this formula in the early twentieth century.Julie K. Allen is associate professor of Scandinavian studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison."Allen weaves a compelling cultural analysis about national identity and its mores. The juxtaposition of the works of Georg Brandes and Asta Nielsen is highly original and Allen's contribution offers a much-needed introduction to an English reading audience of these important cultural figures." -Karin Sanders, University of California, Berkeley"
The Danish Avant Garde And World War Ii
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Author : Kerry Greaves
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-03-18
The Danish Avant Garde And World War Ii written by Kerry Greaves and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-18 with Art categories.
This is the first book to focus on Helhesten (The Hell-Horse), an avant-garde artists’ collective active during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and one of the few tangible connections between radical European art groups from the 1920s to the 1960s. The Danes’ deliberately unskilled painterly abstraction, embrace of the tradition of dansk folkelighed (the popular) and its iterations of egalitarianism and consensus reform, called for the political relevance of art and interrogated the ideologies underlying culture itself. The group’s cultural activism presents an alternative trajectory of continuity, which challenges the customary view of World War II as a moment of artistic rupture.
A History Of Danish Cinema
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Author : C. Claire Thomson
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-30
A History Of Danish Cinema written by C. Claire Thomson and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-30 with Performing Arts categories.
The first English-language book to cover Danish cinema from the 1890s to the present day.
Fascism And Modernist Literature In Norway
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Author : Dean Krouk
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2017-09-17
Fascism And Modernist Literature In Norway written by Dean Krouk and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway illuminates the connections between literature and politics in interwar Europe. Focusing on the works of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Knut Hamsun and modernist poets Asmund Sveen and Rolf Jacobsen, all of whom collaborated with the Nazi regime during the occupation of Norway in World War II, and those of the anti-fascist novelist and critic Sigurd Hoel, Dean Krouk reveals key aspects of the modernist literary imagination in Norway. In their writings, Hamsun, Sveen, and Jacobsen expressed their discontent with twentieth-century European modernity, which they perceived as overly rationalized or nihilistic. Krouk explains how fascism offered these writers a seductive utopian vision that intersected with the countercultural and avant-garde aspects of their literary works, while Hoel�s critical analysis of Nazism extended to a questioning of all patriarchal forms of authority. Krouk�s readings of their works serve as a timely reminder to us all of the dangers of fascism.
Human Rights And Oppressed Peoples
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Author : Georg Brandes
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 2020-02-19
Human Rights And Oppressed Peoples written by Georg Brandes and has been published by University of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-19 with Literary Collections categories.
Georg Brandes was known as the "Father of the Modern Breakthrough" for his influence on Scandinavian writers in the late nineteenth century. A prominent writer, thinker, and speaker, he often examined intellectual topics beyond the literary criticism he was best known for. In this collection, William Banks has translated a number of Brandes's pieces that engage in the concerns of oppressed peoples. By collecting, annotating, and contextualizing these works, Banks reintroduces Brandes as a major progenitor of thinking about the rights of national minorities and the colonized. Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples includes thirty-five essays and published speeches from the early twenty-first century on subjects as diverse as the Boxer Rebellion, displaced peoples from World War I, Finland's Jewish population, and imperialism. This collection will interest interdisciplinary scholars of human rights as well as those who study Scandinavian intellectual and literary history.
101 Danish Design Icons
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Author : Lars Dybdahl
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
101 Danish Design Icons written by Lars Dybdahl and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with 1700-1800 categories.
Claims For Secession And Federalism
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Author : Alberto López-Basaguren
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-01-05
Claims For Secession And Federalism written by Alberto López-Basaguren and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-05 with Law categories.
This volume, incorporating the work of scholars from various parts of the globe, taps the wisdom of the Westphalian (and post-Westphalian) world on the use of federalism and secession as tools for managing regional conflicts. The debate has rarely been more important than it is right now, especially in light of recent events in Catalonia, Scotland, Québec and the Sudan - all unique political contexts raising similar questions about how best to balance competing claims for autonomy, interdependence, political voice, and exit. Exploring how various nations have encountered comparable conflicts, some more and some less successfully, the book broadens the perspectives of scholars, government officials, and citizens struggling to resolve sovereignty conflicts with a full appreciation of the underlying principles they represent.
Son Of Spinoza
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Author : Søren Blak Hjortshøj
language : en
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Release Date : 2021-02-11
Son Of Spinoza written by Søren Blak Hjortshøj and has been published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Son of Spinoza sheds light on the interconnectedness between Jewishness and cosmopolitanism in the oeuvre of the Danish-Jewish intellectual Georg Brandes (1842-1927). Today, the historical tradition of interconnecting these concepts has largely been forgotten, although the construction of a somewhat synonymous relation between them became a key structuring element of modern antisemitism and later Nazi ideology. In this context, Georg Brandes–his writing and practice–stands as a crucial European cosmopolitan archive, due to the great influence he enjoyed throughout the European continent. Son of Spinoza challenges the presentation of Brandes in previous research as a so-called assimilated Jew who distanced himself from Jewishness, instead recognizing Brandes’ own self-identification as a Spinozist cosmopolitan and his depiction of himself and other modern Jews as ‘sons of Spinoza’.
Georg Brandes
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-12-18
Georg Brandes written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Georg Brandes (1842-1927) was one of the leading literary critics in Europe of his time. His Main Currents of Nineteenth Century Literature (1872-1890) was a foundational text to the field of comparative literature and extolled by Thomas Mann as the “Bible of the young intellectual Europe at the turn of the century.” Georg Brandes eventually developed into a truly global public intellectual, living by his pen and public lectures. On the eve of World War I, he was one of the most sought-after commentators, vigorously opposing all conflicting factions. This book seeks to understand Brandes’ trajectory, to evaluate Brandes’ significance for current discussions of literary criticism and public engagement, and to introduce Brandes to an international audience. It consists of 15 original chapters commissioned from experts in the field.