Aesthetics of Protestantism in Northern Europe: Exploring the Field (Aesthetics of Protestantism in Northern Europe, 1) - Hardcover

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9782503601601: Aesthetics of Protestantism in Northern Europe: Exploring the Field (Aesthetics of Protestantism in Northern Europe, 1)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 250360160X ISBN 13: 9782503601601
Publisher: Brepols Publishers, 2022

Synopsis

This book explores the aesthetic consequences of Protestantism in Scandinavia. Fourteen case studies from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century discuss five abstract and trans-historical principles that characterize Scandinavian aesthetics and that arguably derive from Protestant thinking and practice, namely: simplicity, logocentrism, tension between pronounced individualism and collectivism, relatedness to the world, and ethics. The contributions address the peculiar aesthetics of Scandinavian print, literature, architecture, film, and opera and reflect on the influence of Protestant traditions on the establishment of genres and writing practices. This volume is the first in a new series that will focus on the aesthetics of Protestantism in Scandinavia, both theoretically and through exemplary individual analyses.

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Publisher
Brepols Publishers
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
250360160X
ISBN 13 
9782503601601
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
260
Editor
Grage Joachim, Mohnike Thomas, Rohrbach Lena