Scandinavist

But far from being naïve Scandinavist ideologists, Blix et al. continually criticizes the utopian Scandinavists' talk of brotherhood and 'one culture', but also—and perhaps most importantly—made cultural separatism and provincialism, particularly in Norway, the object of crass satire.

But his successor, Dr. Daniel B. Shumway, Professor of Germanic Philology and head of the German department, was just as staunch a Scandinavist as his predecessor.

Your reviewer, being more particularly a Scandinavist, would like to add a few details from his own field.

The old editions are no longer adequate, and this handsome volume should replace its predecessors on the shelves of every Scandinavist and all libraries with a Scandinavian or drama section.

Basing his analysis on the work of the famous Danish Scandinavist, Axel Olrik, McTurk concluded that it is not so much the general style of “Cynewulf and Cyneheard” which bears the stamp of orality, as its frequently obeying the laws which Olrik had formulated with respect to the unilinear progression of oral narrative.

All together, it is an outstanding work of reference, which every Scandinavist will want to have on his/her worktable.

Twenty-eight contributors from Great Britain, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the USA (one classical scholar, one Scandinavist and one Byzantinologist among them) presented the Russianist from the University of Bergen (Norway) with their essays on Russian folklore, medieval Russian literature, Gogol, Leskov, Dostoevsky, Lev Tolstoy, Akhmatova, Bulgakov, Pasternak and Bakhtin, as well as on other related cultural topics.

The Soviet philologist, Scandinavist Mikhail Steblin-Kamensky noted that “myth is not a genre, an indefinite form, but a content, as if independent of the form in which it is expressed. [...]"

The "Scandinavist" movement aiming at greater intimacy between the three northern countries, made great progress during the war along political, scientific, and cultural lines and "Scandinavist" Congresses were held in each of the three capitals.

[The mål question] arose at a time when the Union with Sweden was already being severely criticized in Norway and it continued during the Scandinavist movement, which politically failed when neither Norway nor Sweden was willing to aid Denmark against Prussia and Austria in 1864.

Another common stereotype links this characteristic to modern socialism, but actually, it dates back to monarchy, was endorsed by the Scandinavist movement in the 19th century and was naturally included in the social-democrat discourse in the 20th century.

Here we see the pan-national or Scandinavist scope of the New Nordic Food Movement, which invites a new theory for understanding nationalism.

Celebrating the establishment of the NC [Nordic Council], Hans Hedtoft argued that the Scandinavist movement had an unfortunately poor reputation as it was remembered particularly for its failure to produce a united Scandinavian kingdom or a more formal union.

With him the pendulum is swinging away from the Germanist-Scandinavist tradition of the older generation as it is doing also in the University of Surrey [...]

The study will, of course, be valuable reading for those interested in Swedish orthography, and for the Scandinavist scholar, but certainly not only for them.

Nevertheless, despite the continuity in staff, the new structures resulted in increased attention being paid to modern Scandinavian literature, which accompanied the establishment of Scandinavist curricula.