Meaning of Scandinavist | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

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“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. [...]"”

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