Books from Norway is a website providing you with information in English about Norwegian literature in all genres: Fiction, Non-fiction and Children and Young Adults’ literature.NORLA - Norwegian Literature Abroad, promotes the export of Norwegian literature through active profiling work and translation subsidies. The organisation disseminates knowledge about Norwegian books and authors abroad, and operations are financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture.
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From North to South – Founded in 1961, NordSüd is a tradition-steeped children’s book publisher based in Zurich, Switzerland. NordSüd publishes around 50 new publications every year, all of which are high-quality illustrated children’s books in German and English, focusing on fictional and non-fictional picture books, fairy tales and classics. It is our aim to work closely with artists and create new books together, which we represent worldwide and sell translation rights. Next to our own creations we buy German rights for well-known illustrators like Jon Klassen, Oliver Jeffers, Kazuo Iwamura, Sophie Blackall, Isabelle Arsenault and many more.
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Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, with a main focus on the development of Gothic from the 1990s onwards in literature, film, TV and new media. The volume gives an overview of Nordic Gothic fiction in relation to transnational developments and provides a number of case studies and in-depth analyses of individual narratives. It creates an understanding of this under-researched cultural phenomenon by showing how the narratives make visible cultural anxieties haunting the Nordic countries, their welfare systems, identities and ideologies. Nordic Gothic examines how figures from Nordic folklore function as metaphorical expressions of Gothic themes and Nordic settings are explored from perspectives such as ecocriticism and postcolonialism. The book will be of interest to researchers and post- and- undergraduate students in various fields within the Humanities.
The five Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden - frequently attract attention as examples of a 'Nordic model'. The meanings of the term vary, but especially since the global financial crisis of 2008-9 the Nordic countries have often been portrayed positively, as examples of economic dynamism, innovation and social equality. Studies of these images of the Nordic countries and Nordic region and their international circulations are now a well-established field of research. This volume explores how the Nordic model has been shaped by global entanglements, in exchange not only with Western Europe and North America, but also with the Global South. Drawing on selected case studies, the volume offers new perspectives on the meanings of the Nordic model and Nordic exceptionalism in a global context during the half century since c. 1970.
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This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson's visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have all come to reflect rising interest in the medieval Norse and their North American presence. Uniquely in reception studies, From Iceland to the Americas approaches this dynamic between Nordic history and its reception by bringing together international authorities on mythology, language, film and cultural studies, as well as on the literature that has dominated critical reception. Collectively, the chapters not only explore the connections among medieval Iceland and the modern Americas, but also probe why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone.
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Insanity, identity and empire examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand. Taking a large sample of patient records, it pays particular attention to gender, ethnicity and class as categories of analysis, reminding us of the varied journeys of immigrants to the colonies and of how and where they stopped, for different reasons, inside the social institutions of the period. It is about their stories of mobility, how these were told and produced inside institutions for the insane, and how, in the telling, colonial identities were asserted and formed. Having engaged with the structural imperatives of empire and with the varied imperial meanings of gender, sexuality and medicine, historians have considered the movements of travellers, migrants, military bodies and medical personnel, and 'transnational lives'. This book examines an empire-wide discourse of 'madness' as part of this inquiry.
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Focusing particularly on historically oriented sagas, Saga emotions identifies and examines a range of emotions from across Old Norse-Icelandic saga literature. Each chapter begins with a discrete emotion term, such as reiði (anger), gleði (joy), or the peculiarly Old Norse víghugr (killing-mood), exploring its usages within the broad saga corpus, and focusing on its contextual meanings and narrative purposes. The contributions explore the specifics of the lexical terms used for different emotion states and offer in-depth case studies that consider how various emotions manifest within particular examples of saga literature. The book offers the emotional granularity lacking in current studies of Norse emotion and serves as an essential foundation for future research and study into emotional depiction in Old Norse-Icelandic saga literature.
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— Analysis of how we view Europe's North and how this image emerged — An outsider's perspective on Nordic societies and their self image — Serves as an introduction into Northern European culture and society Our image of Northern Europe has been shaped by projections and desires in the long history of encounters: berserkers and war atrocities, bad weather, beautiful nature, stable political systems, social welfare, equality and prosperity, peacefulness, low corruption, hygge and Bullerby – all this is part of the Nordic narrative. But what about the religious, linguistic and ethnic homogeneity, what about the muchvaunted Nordic cooperation? How do politics "work" in the North? Why are Northern Europeans the happiest people?
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Making a bold intervention into critical security studies literature, this book explores the ontological relationship between mortality and security. It considers the mortality theories of Heidegger and Bauman alongside literature from the sociology of death, before undertaking a comparative exploration of the memorialisation of four prominent post-terrorist sites: the World Trade Centre in New York, the Bali bombsite, the London bombings and the Norwegian sites attacked by Anders Breivik. By interviewing the architects and designers of these reconstruction projects, the book shows that practices of memorialisation are a retrospective security endeavour - they conceal and re-narrate the traumatic incursion of death. Disaster recovery is replete with security practices that return mortality to its sublimated position and remove the disruption posed by mortality to political authority. The book will be of significant interest to academics and postgraduates working in the fields of critical security studies, memory studies and international politics.
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Migration is at the heart of the contemporary European Union. This new edition addresses three key questions that underpin EU responses to migration policy. First, what role does the EU play in the regulation of migration? Second, how and why have EU measures developed to promote the integration of migrants and their descendants? Third, what impact do EU measures on migration and asylum have on new member states and non member states? The updated edition covers important recent developments, addressing new migration flows and the external dimension of EU action on migration and asylum and placing in all these in the context of a 'wider' Europe. Andrew Geddes provides comprehensive analysis of the EU's free movement framework, of the development of co-operation on immigration and asylum policy, of the mobilisation by groups seeking to represent migrant's interests in EU decision-making, the interface between migration, welfare and the EU's social dimension, and the impact of enlargement on migration and asylum. This innovative and original analysis of the European dimension of immigration policy is essential reading for scholars of European integration, the politics of immigration and the prospects for new patterns of migrant inclusion at member state and EU level. ;
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Hier wird das Zubettgehen zum Kinderspiel! Ab ins Bett – das kann manchmal ganz schön stressig sein! Diese Box will das ändern und ist bis oben hin gefüllt mit fabelhaften Ideen für ein entspanntes Gute-Nacht-Ritual. Zähne putzen wie ein Einhorn, als Agentin im Schlafanzug auf geheime Mission gehen oder ein Kuschel-Monster bei sich einziehen lassen – 30 spielerische Karten machen den Weg ins Bett und das Gute-Nacht-Sagen zu etwas ganz Besonderem und bringen Entspannung und Spaß in die Familien-Abendroutine. FamilyFlow. Ab ins Bett! 30 fabelhafte Karten für euer Gute-Nacht-Ritual: Tolle Ideen für entspannte Abendrituale Spielerisch ins Bett gehen: 30 liebevolle Einschlafrituale für Familien mit Kindern ab 3 Jahren. Abendroutinen für die ganze Familie: Vom Zähneputzen und Waschen im Bad bis zum Einschlafritual im Bett – die Karten bieten Abwechslung und Spaß für Groß und Klein. Für ein entspanntes Gute-Nacht-Ritual: So kommen Kinder ab 3 Jahren spielerisch zur Ruhe und schlafen schnell und glücklich ein. Toll ausgestattet: 30 stabile Karten in einer handlichen Box mit achtsamen Ideen von TV-Moderatorin Tanja Mairhofer (KiKa) und liebevollen Illustrationen von Phine Wolff. Das ideale Geschenk für einen entspannten Familienabend!
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»Voller Intrigen, Liebe, Leidenschaft, voller Neid und Bosheit und Sehnsucht ... Großartig!« Elke Heidenreich Ins Dunkel ist Screwball-Komödie und Melodram, Tragödie und Romanze in einem: ein Roman als Film, glamourös und hochpolitisch. In raffinierten Rückblenden, mit Tempo und Timing verhandelt er das Verhältnis von Literatur, Film und Macht in Zeiten inszenierter Wirklichkeiten. Eine Liebeserklärung an das Kino Wir sitzen im Dunkeln. Auf der Leinwand treffen sich Greta Garbo und Erika Mann 1969 in den Schweizer Bergen und erinnern sich. Wie war das noch mit Marlene Dietrich und der gemeinsamen Geliebten? Als der Film den Nerv der Zeit traf und die Deutschen Hollywood und ganz Amerika durcheinanderwirbelten. Mit Erika Manns antifaschistischem Kabarett Die Pfeffermühle, während die ganze Welt ins Dunkel glitt? Mit der Zensur nach 1933 auch in den USA? Ach – und wie gut kannten sich eigentlich Greta Garbo und Marlene Dietrich? Wer traute sich mehr auf der Leinwand? Und im Leben?
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Eine »Geschichte der unsichtbaren Welt in einzelnen Blättern«, nichts Geringeres schwebt dem Dichter und Theologen Christian Lehnert in diesem Buch vor. Ausgangspunkte seiner Gedanken sind Naturgeister und niedere Gottheiten, dualistische Vorstellungen von Engeln und Dämonen, himmlische Hierarchiebildungen, Grenzüberschreitungen zwischen Diesseits und Jenseits mit geheimnisvoller geistiger Schmuggelware im Gepäck. Gnosis, Kabbala und Visionen kommen ebenso vor wie moderne Psychotechniken. Von der sogenannten ›faktischen‹ Seite der Wirklichkeit her aber treten Analogien des Geistersehens im philosophischen Denken und in den Naturwissenschaften ins Bild. Zugrunde liegt die Frage: Wie kann das Numinose heute, in einer postsäkularen Welt, zu einer progressiven Kraft werden, welche die vorherrschenden, scheinbar festgefügten Weltbilder unterwandert und verflüssigt? Den kleinen Rissen in den festen Straten religiöser oder wissenschaftlicher, liberaler oder säkularer Weltanschauungen folgt Lehnert, sucht jene Risse, wo der Zweifel eindringt, wo die vergessenen Axiome der ›Exaktheit‹ und die Brüchigkeit ihrer Anschauungen aufleuchten. Wie stellt man derartiges dar? Begriffliches Denken, poetisches Bild und Erzählung, Autobiographisches und Spekulation schwingen in den einzelnen Texten ineinander, erhellen sich gegenseitig. Eine bewegliche Form des Schreibens stellt sich ein: ein suchendes Sprechen, das sich ins Unsagbare vortastet. So versammeln sich – immer vom Ausgangs- und Bezugspunkt des eigenen Lebens aus und ohne Fiktion – Bruchstücke eines Bekenntnisses als »Blätter« sehr unterschiedlicher Tonlagen. Sie behalten als Ganzes die Gestalt einer Frage.
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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Race talk is about language use as an anti-racist practice in multicultural city spaces. The book contends that attention to talk reveals the relations of domination and subordination in heterogeneous, ethnically diverse and multilingual contexts, while also helping us to understand how transcultural solidarity might be expressed. Drawing on original ethnographic research conducted on licensed and unlicensed market stalls in in heterogeneous, ethnically diverse and multilingual contexts, this book examines the centrality of multilingual talk to everyday struggles about difference, positionality and entitlement. In these street markets, Neapolitan street vendors work alongside documented and undocumented migrants from Bangladesh, China, Guinea Conakry, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal as part of an ambivalent, cooperative and unequal quest to survive and prosper. As austerity, anti-immigration politics and urban regeneration projects encroached upon the possibilities of street vending, talk across linguistic, cultural, national and religious boundaries underpinned the collective action of street vendors struggling to keep their markets open. The edginess of their multilingual organisation offered useful insights into the kinds of imaginaries that will be needed to overcome the politics of borders, nationalism and radical incommunicability.
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Das Kino, Los Angeles, die Stadt des Films, die Literatur, die Bibel und die Tiefenpsychologie: Aus diesen Quellen speist sich das Schreiben Patrick Roths. In seinen Frankfurter Poetikvorlesungen begibt sich der Autor auf die detektivische Suche nach dem »Stoff, aus dem die Träume sind« - und gerät dabei ins Erzählen.
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Natur erleben mit Kindern Raus ins Grüne mit der ganzen Familie! Diese hochwertige Kartenbox für Kinder ab 3 Jahren ist bis prall gefüllt mit jeder Menge Draußenzeit. Vom Regenbogensammeln in den Farben der Natur über spannende Tier- und Pflanzen-Challenges bis hin zum gemeinsamen Outdoor-Yoga: Die 30 Inspirationen für Auszeiten im Grünen lassen Groß und Klein durchatmen und die Natur in den Familienalltag einziehen. Die hochwertige Box enthält 30 stabile Karten, die sich ganz bequem überall hin mitnehmen lassen. Ein inspirierendes Produkt für gemeinsame Rituale zum Entschleunigen und Entspannen. Ab ins Grüne: 30 Ideen zum Entspannen, Entdecken und Erforschen Spiel und Spaß im Freien: 30 originelle Ideen für Familien mit Kindern ab 3 Jahren. Natur im Familienalltag: Von Outdoor-Yoga bis hin zu Tier- und Pflanzen-Challenges - die Karten bieten Spaß und Spannung für Groß und Klein. Hochwertig ausgestattet: Praktische Kartenbox mit stabilen Karten, die in jede Tasche und in jeden Rucksack passt. Beim Picknick, im Park oder im Wald: Gemeinsame Aktivitäten in der Natur bringen Familien näher zusammen. Ab in die Natur mit der praktischen Kartenbox! Die 30 stabilen Karten bieten spannende Draußen-Aktivitäten für Kinder ab 3 Jahren - vom Regenbogensammeln bis zu Outdoor-Yoga. Ein inspirierendes Produkt für entspannte Familienmomente im Grünen.
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European citizenship, identity and immigration are constitutive issues facing the European polity and have important consequences for domestic political systems. There has been a great deal published about citizenship within the setting of the nation-state and comparative immigration policies, but relatively little has been written on their theorisation in a post-national, post-statist context, such as the EU, and on alternative European institutional designs. Now available in paperback, this volume blends normative political theory with European integration, and develops an original theoretical framework for European Union citizenship, identity and immigration as well as a set of policy proposals for institutional reform. Challenging the conventionally held views in these areas, the author argues that a constructive model of European citizenship and identity is vital to the construction of a democratic, heterogeneous and inclusive European polity. The book will appeal to academics and political actors concerned with issues of European governance as well as to undergraduate and postgraduate students of European politics, European integration, European Union Law, political theory and sociology.
