Heretica

Heretica was a conservative cultural and literary magazine published in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 1948 to 1953.[1]

Heretica
CategoriesLiterary and cultural magazine
Founded1948
Final issue1953
CountryDenmark
Based inCopenhagen
LanguageDanish
OCLC265696256

History and profile

Heretica was established in 1948.[2] One of the founders was Thorkild Bjørnvig.[3] It was largely inspired by the British periodical The Criterion by T. S. Eliot.[2] The magazine adopted an anti-ideological humanism approach.[4] The magazine ended publication in 1953[2] and was succeeded by another magazine, Vindrosen.[5]

Contributors and content

Heretica was produced by the poets who looked for new reality challenging the conventional ideas of Christianity, humanism and communism.[5] The magazine also covered the poems and writings of promising authors.[4] One of these new writers were Poul Vad who started his literary career in the magazine in 1956.[6] The contributors of the magazine were called the Heretica School members, who had conservative existentialist views.[1] They included Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Benny Andersen, Per Højholt,[2] Paul la Cour and Erik Knudsen.[4]

The magazine was edited by the following Danish writers and poets: Thorkild Bjørnvig (volumes 1-2),[7] Martin A. Hansen and Ole Wivel (volumes 3-4), and Frank Jæger and Tage Skou-Hansen (volumes 5-6).[5]

References
  1. Søren Schou (2016). "Postwar Americanisation and the revitalisation of European culture". In Michael Skovmand; Kim Christian Schrøder (eds.). Media Cultures: Reappraising Transnational Media. London: Routledge. p. 180. ISBN 978-1-315-51191-7.
  2. Klaus P. Mortensen; May Schack, eds. (2008). "Heretica 1948-1953". Den Store Danske Encyclopædi (in Danish). Vol. 4. Dansk Litteraturs Historie (1920-1960). Gyldendal.
  3. "American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Competition for 2015 Opens". The Danish Pioneer. 22 January 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  4. Sven Hakon Rossel, ed. (1992). A History of Danish Literature. Lincoln, NE; London: University of Nebraska Press. p. 425. ISBN 0-8032-3886-X.
  5. Robert Singerman (2003). "Creating the optimum bibliography: From reference chaining to bibliographic control". In David William Foster; James Raymond Kelly (eds.). Bibliography in Literature, Folklore, Language, and Linguistics: Essays on the Status of the Field. Jefferson, NC; London: McFarland. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-7864-1447-5.
  6. Steen Klitgård Povlsen (2007). "Danish Modernism". In Astradur Eysteinsson; Vivian Liska (eds.). Modernism. Amsterdam; Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publishing Company. p. 860. ISBN 978-90-272-9204-9.
  7. P. M. Mitchell (August 1962). "Contemporary Danish Criticism: Media, Methods and Men". Scandinavian Studies. 34 (3): 164. JSTOR 40916395.
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