Iceland imagined : nature, culture, and storytelling in the North Atlantic / / Karen Oslund ; foreword by William Cronon

• Autore: Oslund Karen
• Pubblicazione: Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 949.12
• Soggetto topico: Human ecology - Iceland; Natural history - Iceland; Ethnology - Iceland; Folklore - Iceland
• Soggetto geografico: Iceland Social life and customs; Iceland Description and travel
• Altri autori: CrononWilliam
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Map 1. The North Atlantic; Map 2. Iceland; Map 3. Greenland; Map 4. The Faroe Islands; Foreword: Amid the Mists of Northern Waters and Words; Acknowledgments; 1. Icelandic Landscapes; 2. Nordic by Nature; 3. Mastering the World's Edges; 4. Translating and Converting; 5. Reading Backward; Epilogue: Whales and Men; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic - its nature harsh, its people reclusive. Since the middle of the eighteenth century, however, this marginalized region has gradually become part of modern Europe, a transformation that is narrated in Karen Oslund's Iceland Imagined. This cultural and environmental history sweeps across the dramatic North Atlantic landscape, exploring its unusual geography, saga narratives, language, culture, and politics, and analyzing its emergence as a distinctive and symbolic part of Europe. The earliest visions of a wild frontier, filled with dangerous and unpredictable inhabitants, eventually gave way to images of beautiful, well-managed lands, inhabited by simple but virtuous people living close to nature.; This transformation was accomplished by state-sponsored natural histories of Iceland which explained that the monsters described in medieval and Renaissance travel accounts did not really exist, and by artists who painted the Icelandic landscapes to reflect their fertile and regulated qualities. Literary scholars and linguists who came to Iceland and Greenland in the nineteenth century related the stories and the languages of the "wild North" to those of their home countries."--Publisher.
• Titolo autorizzato: Iceland imagined
• ISBN: 0-295-80299-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828566003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Weyerhaeuser environmental book.