Methods in Scandinavian Study
SCAND 503
Autumn 2005
Prof. Andrew Nestingen Office: Raitt Hall 305P Office Hours: Tu. W., 3:30-4:30 Tel. 543-0643 Email: akn@u.washington.edu
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Course Syllabus
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Course Announcements
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Course Schedule and Notes
Week 1
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9/29 |
Course Overview Introductions What is Scandinavian Studies? |
Week 2
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10/4 |
Student Presentations: What are You Interested In? Presentation should be supported by a brief statement of interest |
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TH. |
10/6 |
Discuss: Hjort, Small Nation, Global Cinema (Minnesota, 2005) |
Week 3
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10/11 |
Guest Lecturer and Discussion: Mette Hjort, Small Nation, Global Cinema |
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TH. |
10/13 |
Guntis Smidchens “Folklorisms Revisited” (Smidchens); “Who are the Folk?” (Dundes) |
Th. 10/12 Mette Hjort Talk in COM 206, 3:30 PM
Week 4
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10/18 |
Patricia L. Conroy: “Sandoyarbok: A Faroese Ballad Collection, Its Collector and the Community”; Saga reading, TBA. |
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10/20 |
Period 1: Discussion Pathfinder (Gaup, 1987), Pusher (Refn,1996), Festen (Vinterberg, 1998), Jalla! Jalla! (Fares, 2000), 101 Reykjavik (Koramakur, 2001), Man Without a Past (Kaurismäki, 2002)
Period 2: Ia DüBois, Reading TBA |
Week 5
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10/25 |
Jan H.K. Nielsen: “‘Små brud af øjeigangsættere’—F.P. Jacs poetiske sprog: En Jacstilistik”; “Inger Christensen (Biographical Essay); and “Post-Petrarchism in Inger Christensen’s Sonnet Sequence: Sommerfugledalen—et requiem.” |
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10/27 |
Christine Ingebritsen “Norm Entrepreneurs: Scandinavia’s Role in World Politics” |
Week 6
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11/1 |
Jan Sjåvik: “Intersubjective Literary Interpretation”; Donald Davidson, “Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective” |
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11/3 |
Jan Sjåvik: “The Striking Rhetoric of Knut Faldbakken, “Bryllupsrejsen” Colloquium Presentation, Raitt 314 |
Week 7
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11/8 |
Student Presentations: Annotated Bibliography |
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11/10 |
Student Presentations: Annotated Bibliography |
Week 8
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11/15 |
Lotta Gavel Adams, “Strindberg, Vetenskap, Manlighet” |
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11/17 |
Marianne Stecher-Hansen: “Danish Writers from the Reformation to Decadence, 1550-1900” |
Marilyn Johns Blackwell Lecture on Ingmar Bergman, 3:30 PM, Location TBA
Week 9
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11/22 |
Andy Nestingen: Transnational Cinema in a Global North Read Introduction and Chapters 3, 4, 6, 10, 11, 12 |
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11/24 |
No Class: Thanksgiving Holiday |
Week 10
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11/29 |
Terje Leiren, “Scandinavian Studies, 2005” Reading: Robert Kvavik, “A Perspective on Scandinavian Studies in the United States.” Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 54, No. 1 (1982): 1-20. |
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12/1 |
Final Project Presentations |
Week 11
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12/6 |
Final Project Presentations |
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12/8 |
How do you define Scandinavian Studies? Course Evaluations |
FINAL PROJECTS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED BY 5:30 PM ON 12/12/03