Heretica
{{Short description|Danish literary magazine (1948–1953)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2023}}
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Heretica was a conservative cultural and literary magazine published in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 1948 to 1953.{{cite book|editor1=Michael Skovmand|editor2=Kim Christian Schrøder|title=Media Cultures: Reappraising Transnational Media|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jPYwDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT180|year=2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-315-51191-7|page=180|author=Søren Schou|chapter=Postwar Americanisation and the revitalisation of European culture|location=London}}
History and profile
Heretica was established in 1948. One of the founders was Thorkild Bjørnvig.{{cite web|title=American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Competition for 2015 Opens|work=The Danish Pioneer|url=http://www.thedanishpioneer.com/news/american-scandinavian-foundation-translation-competition-2015-opens/|access-date=8 October 2016|date=22 January 2015}} It was largely inspired by the British periodical The Criterion by T. S. Eliot.{{cite encyclopedia|language=da|publisher=Gyldendal|year=2008|title=Heretica 1948-1953|url=http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Dansk_litteraturs_historie/Dansk_litteraturs_historie_4/Kulturkrise_og_k%C3%A6tteri/Heretica_1948-1953#|encyclopedia=Den Store Danske Encyklopædi|volume=4. Dansk Litteraturs Historie (1920-1960)|editor1=Klaus P. Mortensen|editor2=May Schack}} The magazine adopted an anti-ideological humanism approach. The magazine ended publication in 1953 and was succeeded by another magazine, Vindrosen.{{cite book|editor1=David William Foster|editor2=James Raymond Kelly|title=Bibliography in Literature, Folklore, Language, and Linguistics: Essays on the Status of the Field|publisher=McFarland
|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dmJ-hzR63B0C&pg=PA24|year=2003|isbn=978-0-7864-1447-5|page=24|location=Jefferson, NC; London|author=Robert Singerman|chapter=Creating the optimum bibliography: From reference chaining to bibliographic control}}
Contributors and content
Heretica was produced by the poets who looked for new reality challenging the conventional ideas of Christianity, humanism and communism. The magazine also covered the poems and writings of promising authors.{{cite book|editor=Sven Hakon Rossel|title=A History of Danish Literature|year=1992|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EzUXE3FNPZQC&pg=PA425|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|isbn=0-8032-3886-X|page=425|location=Lincoln, NE; London}} One of these new writers were Poul Vad who started his literary career in the magazine in 1956.{{cite book|editor1=Astradur Eysteinsson|editor2=Vivian Liska|title=Modernism|year=2007|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Rw6AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA860|isbn=978-90-272-9204-9|page=860|author=Steen Klitgård Povlsen|chapter=Danish Modernism|location=Amsterdam; Philadelphia, PA}} The contributors of the magazine were called the Heretica School members, who had conservative existentialist views. They included Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Benny Andersen, Per Højholt, Paul la Cour and Erik Knudsen.
The magazine was edited by the following Danish writers and poets: Thorkild Bjørnvig (volumes 1-2),{{cite journal|author=P. M. Mitchell
|title=Contemporary Danish Criticism: Media, Methods and Men|journal=Scandinavian Studies|date=August 1962|volume=34|issue=3|page=164
|jstor=40916395}} Martin A. Hansen and Ole Wivel (volumes 3-4), and Frank Jæger and Tage Skou-Hansen (volumes 5-6).
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