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«Den verkliga festen, som är dödstyst» – Tomas Tranströmers "Blåsipporna" und das Heilige

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Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia

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2021

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vol. 30

4-14

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Tranströmer’s prose poem Blåsipporna ("The Liverleafs") is rather cryptic. By reading the text in the light of Kant’s theory of the sublime and by focusing on its mysterious and paradoxical aspects, this essay seeks to unveil the poem’s hidden eschatology. The poem’s transcendence is the result of the rhetorical and literary devices the poet is using to depict an ecstatic experience. Such an experience is beyond rationality, hence the wording’s irrationality. In addition, the poem addresses silence, as the experience of ecstasy can never be expressed by words. Thus, "Blåsipporna" is a piece of art and a sacred text at the same time.

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H.C. Andersens Iisjomfruen und die Unterhaltungsliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts

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Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia

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2016

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vol. 20

205-215

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H.C. Andersen’s fairy tale The Ice Maiden is in many ways very modern, especially when we take into account its formal and rhetorical devices. The narrative is not invented by the author as the story is compound of travel journeys, popular readings of the time and so on. Andersen himself indicated some of his sources. In the following paper I would like to discuss the relationship between the fairy tale and the so called „Gebirgserzählung“ from the 18th and 19th century, which was extremely popular at the time. While the core of a “Gebirgserzählung” often consists in a young couple, that after many troubles in the end comes happily together, this is not the case in The Ice Maiden, as Andersen let the protagonist die. It looks as if Andersen would argue in favour of predetermination, based on Christian belief. However, this conclusion is not convincing because it fails to explain the obvious injustice of Rudy’s fate. In what follows I suggest a rhetorical explanation of the protagonist’s death. In such a view Rudy’s death is not to be understood as predetermined, but as a result of Andersen’s fear of his own modernity. What he demonstrates is how an entire story can be the result of other stories, how literature is based on literature. But the author himself seems not to be mature for this insight and that’s the reason why he let the protagonist die.

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Frost und Gedächtnis: "Das Eis-Schloss" von Tarjei Vesaas

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Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia

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2016

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vol. 19

213-232

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Critics have interpreted Tarjei Vesaas’s novel The Ice Palace (1963) in psychological terms as a kind of rite-of-passage fable of two eleven-year-old girls, Siss and Unn. The latter dies in a magic Ice Palace short after their first meeting in Unn’s house. The novel’s plot is about how Siss is dealing with the loss. Other scholars put the emphasis on the folkloristic elements or read the text as an allegorical one, as a piece of art dealing with art.In the following article I would like to read The Ice Palace as a poetic treatise on the relationship between mourning, melancholy on the one hand and commemoration, memorialization on the other.

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Snow and social criticism – snow imagery in Alexander Kielland’s Snow (1886) and Jonas Lie’s Familjen paa Gilje (1883)

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Studia Scandinavica

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2020

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vol. 24

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issue 4

49-70

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Snow is the principle source of imagery both in Alexander Kielland’s Snow and in Jonas Lie’s Familjen paa Gilje, although it has different tasks to fulfill. Whereas Kielland’s narrator depicts snow as a homogenizing material and as a means to subdue people, Lie’s narrator unfolds a dialectic conception of snow, so that snow imagery becomes ambiguous. It not only functions as a metaphor to illustrate people’s suppression, but it is also linked to the notion of national freedom and progress. In this respect, snow is a key metaphor to depict self-realisation at the expense of community.

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«Den verkliga festen, som är dödstyst» – Tomas Tranströmers "Blåsipporna" und das Heilige

H.C. Andersens Iisjomfruen und die Unterhaltungsliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts

Frost und Gedächtnis: "Das Eis-Schloss" von Tarjei Vesaas

Snow and social criticism – snow imagery in Alexander Kielland’s Snow (1886) and Jonas Lie’s Familjen paa Gilje (1883)