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- Höglund, Johan, 1967-
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Indigenous Hauntings : Nordic Gothic and Colonialism
- 2020
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Ingår i: Nordic Gothic. - Manchester : Manchester University Press. - 9781526126436 ; , s. 125-146
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter observes that while several studies of Anglophone Gothic has noted the close connection between Gothic and imperialism, very little of the scholarship that exists on Nordic Gothic has considered this dimension. This should be attributed not only to the general reluctance by scholarship to look beyond Anglophone Gothic, but also to the widespread belief that the Nordic countries remained outside the nineteenth-century colonial project. Referring to several studies that show that the Nordic nations were, in fact, eager participants in the colonial project, the chapter then discusses a number of late twentieth and early twenty-first century Nordic Gothic texts, with a focus on the fiction of Peter Høeg, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir and Anders Fager, and on the Swedish-French television series Idjabeaivváš (Jour Polaire/Midnight Sun/Midnattssol 2016). These texts are used to argue that Nordic Gothic, sometimes directly and sometimes furtively, addresses colonial concerns and that this tradition shows the same ambivalence towards this colonial past and present as does international Gothic.
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- Höglund, Johan, 1967-, et al.
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Introduction
- 2020
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Ingår i: Nordic Gothic. - Manchester : Manchester University Press. - 9781526126436 ; , s. 1-10
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This introductory chapter describes how, in the Nordic countries, Gothic fiction has become increasingly pervasive and popular in the past few decades and invaded all cultural registers – popular, highbrow, children’s and young adult fiction.
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- Höglund, Johan, 1967-
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Nordic Gothic New Media
- 2020
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Ingår i: Nordic Gothic. - Manchester : Manchester University Press. - 9781526126436 ; , s. 169-190
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter maps and analyses new Gothic media and video games developed in the Nordic region. The chapter first considers what the concepts Gothic and Nordic actually entail when the focus is new media rather than literature or cinema. This is followed by analyses of four of the more important and widely disseminated games and considers the interactive stories they tell in relation to the Nordic geographical, ideological and cultural landscape. The first two, Finnish Alan Wake (2010) and Swedish Little Nightmares (2017), are well funded and internationally distributed games made for an international audience. The other two, Swedish Year Walk (2013) and Norwegian Through the Woods (2016) are independent games that may look for wide dissemination, but that keep much closer to Nordic themes and settings.
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- Leffler, Yvonne, 1959, et al.
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Introduction
- 2020
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Ingår i: Nordic Gothic / Maria Holmgren Troy, Johan Höglund, Yvonne Leffler and Sofia Wijkmark.. - Manchester : Manchester University Press. - 9781526126436 ; , s. 1-11
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- Leffler, Yvonne, 1959
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Nordic Gothic crime: places and spaces in Johan Theorin's Öland quartet series
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Ingår i: Nordic Gothic / Maria Holmgren Troy,Johan Höglund, Yvonne Leffler and Sofia Wijkmark.. - Manchester : Manchester University Press. - 9781526126436 ; , s. 65-83
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- On one of the most internationally recognised Swedish novelist of Gothic crime is Johan Theorine, with his Öland quartet: Echoes of the Dead, The Darkest Room, The Quarry, and The Voices (2007-2013). This chapter explores in what way Theorin's novels revive an old tradition in Nordic crime stories where a whodonit-plot is combined supernatural occurrences and an uncanny atmosphere. In his novels the local landscape and its particular mythology plays an active part in the crime investigation. Thus the aim of this chapter is also to demonstrate the complex relationship between location, time and focalisation and in what way Theorin's crime novels can be termed topofocal stories in which setting plays a vital and Gothic role.
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- Leffler, Yvonne, et al.
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The past that Haunts the Present : The Rise of Nordic Gothic
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Ingår i: Nordic Gothic. - Manchester : Manchester University Press. - 9781526126436 ; , s. 11-28
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is a long non-realist tradition in Nordic literature and film that goes back to the Romantic period. This tradition frequently employs typical Gothic tropes, it seeks to evoke feelings of terror and horror, and it negotiates, as Gothic is understood to do, the complex tension between the human subject and Enlightenment modernity. Due to a striking reluctance by generations of Nordic literary critics and scholarship to recognise a Gothic tradition in the region, it was not until the late 1980s that the existence of Gothic fiction in the Nordic countries began to be systematically explored through a number of studies by Yvonne Leffler.1 Since the turn of the millennium, different Nordic writers and aspects of Gothic have been investigated by Scandinavian scholars such as Mathias Fyhr, Henrik Johnsson, Sofia Wijkmark and Kirstine Kastbjerg.2 Some introductions and surveys of the Scandinavian tradition have also been published.3 Building on this scholarship, this chapter will trace the Nordic Gothic tradition from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century to the present moment. The aim is to provide a picture of how the Gothic tradition emerged in the Nordic region and to show how Nordic writers, filmmakers and, towards the end of the twentieth century, game producers, make use of Gothic tropes and themes. Several of the authors and filmmakers mentioned in this chapter will be discussed in more detail in other parts of the book.
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- Leffler, Yvonne, 1959, et al.
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The past that haunts the present: the rise of Nordic Gothic
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Ingår i: Nordic Gothic / Maria Holmgren Troy,Johan Höglund, Yvonne Leffler and Sofia Wijkmark.. - Manchester : Manchester University Press. - 9781526126436 ; , s. 11-28
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth century with a main focus on the dev3elopment of Gothic from the 1990s onwards in literature, film, TV series and new media.
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