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Scandinavian popular novels and films have seen an efflorescence in the last thirty years. In Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia, Andrew Nestingen argues that the growth and visibility of popular culture have been at the heart of the development of heterogeneous ´publics´ in Scandinavia, in opposition to the homogenizing influence of the post-World War II welfare state. The book provides significant insight into the changing nature of civil society under the Scandinavian welfare state through the lens of popular culture. Nestingen develops his argument through the examination of genres where the central theme is individual transgression of societal norms. Among the internationally known artists discussed are Henning Mankell, Aki Kaurismäki, Lukas Moodysson, and Lars von Trier.Andrew Nestingen is an Assistant Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington.

Munch´s Ibsen is the first comprehensive scholarly and critical account of the relation between the two great Norwegian modernists Edvard Munch and Henrik Ibsen. Drawing on Norwegian social and cultural history, Munch´s extensive unpublished writings, and the interlocking careers of Munch and Ibsen, Joan Templeton demonstrates Ibsen´s primordial importance for Munch as a pioneering modernist voice. Munch made more than 400 illustrations of Ibsen´s plays, one of the greatest homages a painter ever made to a writer. In addition to locating these illustrations in Munch´s life and work as a whole, Templeton also studies them as depictions of Ibsen´s plays.Joan Templeton is Professor of English and comparative literature at Long Island University. Author of Ibsen´s Women.