**About the Editor**

**Jakob Lothe** is Professor Emeritus of English literature at the University of Oslo. His books include *Conrad's Narrative Method* and *Narrative in Fiction and Film* (both from Oxford University Press), and he is co-editor of four volumes in the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative series published by The Ohio State University Press. He was elected to The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1999 and to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.

## **Preface to "Nordic and European Modernisms"**

Presenting the reader with different aspects of, and varying perspectives on, Nordic and European modernisms, this e-book demonstrates the editor's and contributors' strong and lasting interest in modernism as a complex international trend. The book contributes to, and thus continues, research on modernism carried out by many literary scholars at different universities inside and outside the Nordic region. More specifically, it continues the work of a Nordic network whose participants have arranged, among other activities, conferences at the Universities of Aarhus, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Reykjavik and Oslo. These have resulted in several publications, including, in addition to this book, *English and Nordic Modernisms* (Norvik Press, 2002), *European and Nordic Modernisms* (Norvik Press, 2004), *Comparative Approaches to European and Nordic Modernisms* (University of Helsinki Press, 2008), *Nordic Responses* (Novus Press, 2014) and *Perspectives on the Nordic* (Novus Press, 2016).

This e-book is also a contribution to two interdisciplinary research projects at the University of Oslo: Traveling Texts and UiO:Nordic.

I would like to thank the contributors to the book, and to the Special Issue of *Humanities* entitled *Nordic and European Modernisms*, for their interest in the topic and for their thoughtful and thought-provoking articles. I would also like to express my gratitude to the participants in the Nordic network referred to above.

This book is dedicated to the memory of Bjørn Tysdahl (1933–2020). The author of *Joyce and Ibsen: A Study in Literary Influence* (Norwegian University Press, 1968), Professor Tysdahl played a key role in the Nordic network for studies of Nordic and European modernisms.

> **Jakob Lothe** *Editor*
