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"Northern Arts is a provocative exploration of Scandinavian literature and art. With intellectual power and deep emotional insights, writer and critic Arnold Weinstein guides us through the most startling works created by the writers and artists of Scandinavia over the past two centuries ... Weinstein uses the concept of "breakthrough"--Boundary smashing, restlessness, and the exploding of traditional forms and values-- as a thematic lens through which to expose the rolling energies and violence that courses through Scandinavian literature and art. Defying preconceptions of Scandinavian culture as depressive or brooding, Weinstein invites us to imagine anew this transformative and innovative tradition of art that continually challenges ideas about the sacred and the profane, family and marriage, children, patriarchy, and personal identity."--Back cover.

Arts, Scandinavian --- Scandinavian arts --- Absurdity. --- Ad nauseam. --- Adolf. --- Allegory. --- Alterity. --- An Anthropologist on Mars. --- Astrid Lindgren. --- August Strindberg. --- Barabbas. --- Bela Lugosi. --- Castration anxiety. --- Castration. --- Central conceit. --- Child abandonment. --- Code word (figure of speech). --- Creation myth. --- Criticism. --- Cubism. --- Depiction. --- Despotism. --- Disgust. --- Echo. --- Edgar Allan Poe. --- Edvard Munch. --- Edward Albee. --- Emanuel Swedenborg. --- Enmeshment. --- Erland Josephson. --- Ernst Josephson. --- Evocation. --- Existentialism. --- Explanation. --- Fairy tale. --- Family resemblance. --- Fanny and Alexander. --- Faust. --- Frauenfrage. --- G. (novel). --- Georges Bataille. --- Good and evil. --- Hamlet's Father. --- Hatred. --- Hubris. --- Humiliation. --- I Wish (manhwa). --- Incest. --- Infanticide. --- Infatuation. --- Ingmar Bergman. --- Irony. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Jean Genet. --- Karl Jaspers. --- Knut Hamsun. --- Libido. --- Literature. --- Little Eyolf. --- Madame Bovary. --- Masturbation. --- Meanness. --- Mills of God. --- Misery (novel). --- Mom and Dad. --- Munch Museum. --- Narrative. --- Negative capability. --- On the Beach (novel). --- Orgy. --- Our Hero. --- Paul Gauguin. --- Pelle the Conqueror. --- Pippi Longstocking. --- Playwright. --- Poetry. --- Pornography. --- Predicament. --- Puffery. --- Religion. --- Ridicule. --- Ronia the Robber's Daughter. --- Rosmersholm. --- Scandinavian literature. --- Superiority (short story). --- Suspension of disbelief. --- Søren Kierkegaard. --- Taunting. --- The Dead Father. --- The Emperor's New Clothes. --- The Ghost Sonata. --- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. --- The Ultimate Truth. --- Thomas Kuhn. --- Tragicomedy. --- Two Women. --- Vanitas. --- War. --- Warfare. --- When We Dead Awaken. --- William Shakespeare. --- Writing.