{"product_id":"song-lyrics-and-literary-history-the-afterlives-of-vzorvindar-friska-9798765127353","title":"Song Lyrics and Literary History: The Afterlives of Vårvindar Friska","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaving new paths for the study of the history of literature, this study explores the intricate networks of one single poem across two centuries - the 'Vårvindar friska', a poem meant to be sung. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Swedish song 'Vårvindar friska' (Fresh Spring Breezes) started its public life in 1828 between the covers of a book, as a poem written to a traditional melody. Since then, it has been reprinted, translated, performed, and used in the most surprising contexts, in different corners of the world. This particular case may be rather exceptional, but Gunilla Hermansson argues that the underlying dynamics are not - and yet they have been underexposed in studies of literary history. This exploration of 'Vårvindar friska' reveals the rich and intricate network of one text and uncovers new facets of how people have engaged with word art in their everyday lives in the modern era. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis network includes untraditional yet widespread uses of poetry and lyrics in lonely hearts columns and railway work - and seemingly strange bedfellows, such as a constellation of Nordic 'folk songs' and American plantation songs. The afterlives of this song evoke questions concerning class, gender, race, citizenship, technology, and modernity from new angles, as well as theoretical and methodological questions of circulation, textual instability, canonization, paradigmatic turns, uses and 'misuses'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSong Lyrics and Literary History \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates how poetry is transformed when shared across time, borders, media and social and ideological divides. Being attentive to poetry-meant-to-be-sung, Hermansson argues, opens to a fuller and more representative picture of the cultural history of literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGunilla Hermansson\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research is primarily devoted to Nordic romantic, early avant-garde and modernist literature and the problems and possibilities of literary history. Her most recent books are \u003ci\u003eSwedish Women's Writing on Export\u003c\/i\u003e (2019, co-author) and \u003ci\u003eExploring Nordic Cool in Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e (2020, co-editor).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51734813573394,"sku":"9798765127353","price":142.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_88366c80-97a4-4bc0-bc41-37449f0022e6.jpg?v=1763488245","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/song-lyrics-and-literary-history-the-afterlives-of-vzorvindar-friska-9798765127353","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}