Images of the North : Histories - Identities - Ideas.

This interdisciplinary volume seeks to examine and explore the various issues surrounding image construction, identity making and representations of the North, as well as the interconnectedness between those issues. The aim is to elucidate the multiple aspects of the idea of the North, both as a myt...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jakobsson, Sverrir
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2009.
Colección:Studia Imagologica, 14
Temas:
National characteristics > History.
Caractéristiques nationales > Histoire.
Literature
Manners and customs
National characteristics
Arctic regions > History.
Arctic regions > In literature.
Arctic regions > Social life and customs.
Arctique > Histoire.
Arctique > Dans la littérature.
Arctique > Mœurs et coutumes.
Arctic Regions
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; Foreword; Images of the North: Address by the President of Iceland; The Theory of Climate and the North in Anglophone Literatures; Canada and its Images of North; Food and the North-Icelandic Identity in 13th century Iceland and Norway; People and Place in the Far North: A Vision of Life, Community and Change; Of Whales and Men: Images of Iceland and the North Atlantic in Contemporary Whaling Politics; Images of Thule: Maps and Metaphors in Polar Exploration; Geared for the Sublime: Mobile Images of the North.
  • From Hell to Homeland: Eggert lafsson's Reise igiennem Island and the Construction of Icelandic IdentityThe Natural Resource Industry Visual Impact Paradox: A Perspective on Alaskan Imagery and Art; Icelandic National Images in the 19th and 20th Centuries; Images of the North from a Distance; Inuit Symbols and Canadian Nationhood in the Imagined North; Alaska's Eternal Frontier: Rural Masculinity and Landscape Nosta.

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