Dead Poets’ Society Nationalism, Literature and Cultural Saints Jón Karl Helgason Department of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies.

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Dead Poets’ Society
Nationalism, Literature and Cultural Saints
Jón Karl Helgason
Department of Icelandic and Comparative
Cultural Studies
Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807-1845)
Milan Kundera (b. 1929)
Pantheon at Thingvellir
Einar Benediktsson (1864-1940)
Ólafur Thors (1892-1964)
Pantheon in Paris
Halldór Laxness (1902-1998)
Sigurjón Pétursson (1888-1955)
Hallgrímsson’s relics in 1946
Selected bibliography
• Harðarson, Atli. “Er kvótakerfið ranglátt?” Skírnir 173 (Spring 1999),
• Hálfdanarson, Guðmundur. Íslenska þjóðríkið – uppruni og endimörk.
Íslensk menning 2. Ritstj. Adolf Friðriksson og Jón Karl Helgason. Reykjavík:
Hið íslenska bókmenntafélag, ReykjavíkurAkademían, 2005.
• Helgason, Jón Karl. Ferðalok. Skýrsla handa akademíu. Reykjavík: Bjartur,
2003.
• „Hver voru afskipti stjórnvalda af heimflutningi beina Jónasar
Hallgrimssonar?“ Tíminn, October 9, 1946.
• Kundera, Milan. Ignorance. Transl. Linda Asher. New York: HarperCollings
Publishers, 2002.
• Lýðveldishátíðin 1944. Reykjavík: Leiftur 1945.