L'uso della storia nelle letterature nordiche. Le lingue nordiche fra storia e attualità

This volume collects the proceedings of the 8th Italian Conference on Scandinavian Studies, held on 11th-13th November 2009 at the University of Milan. In the section The use of history in Nordic literatures, eighteen papers study the rewrite of history in Scandinavian literatures, from Romantic “nation-building” through historical dramas and novels down to Modernist and Postmodernist narratives scrutinizing the relation between facts and their written account as well as the individual’s position in history. In the section The Nordic languages between past and present nine articles analyse the relationships between the Scandinavian languages and their context, also considering language teaching issues. Sociolinguistic aspects and language policy show how the discourse on language gives a society the chance to reflect and debate on the “self” and on its own cultural system.