Nordic Nostalgia

15 credits

What do gruesome murders in Stockholm, multicultural love affairs in Oslo, erotic adventures in Swedish summers, Finnish tango and Moomin dad turning into a lighthouse keeper have in common? They are part of reading Nordic cultural history through the theoretical and methodological lens of nostalgia. This course introduces you to general concepts and histories of nostalgia and how Nordic culture, mostly cinema, music and literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, can be approached and analyzed utilizing nostalgia as a historicizing and aesthetical concept. This course is structured chronologically around certain nostalgic themes starting out with nostalgia and modernity (modernism) and ending up in contemporary nostalgic discussions of climate change and the Anthropocene.

Autumn 2025

Växjö, Half-time, Campus CANCELLED

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Växjö, Half-time, Distance learning CANCELLED

4EN017 Master’s level English Syllabus Half-time, Campus English Växjö 01 Sep, 2025 - 18 Jan, 2026 January 15 Some courses and programmes will accept late applications. LNU-F2820

General entry requirements for studies at the second level including 1-90 credits in a subject in the humanities including an independent project of 15 credits.

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