In other words, Ready for Winter makes and takes
northernness as something natural, rather than as something different and Other.
Rather, southern countries, each in slightly different ways, are peripheral to metropolitan axes of
northernness and find themselves bearing the burden of application of northern ideas to situations where they are less than fully suitable.
What appears to be crucial in the current discourse is that elements of metropolitanism, regionalism, and a relinking to
northernness can be traced, and, more generally, the representational frame of St.
I am here to tell after-dinner speakers that feigning
Northernness is entirely unnecessary.
A call has gone out for film makers, photographers and artists to contribute to the conference, called
Northernness.
As Lewis does himself in Surprised by Joy, Sayer traces young Jack's early love of "
Northernness" as a powerful influence.
His theme is the importance of the north, but he can't resist adding that there is a danger of Richard's
northernness `being blown out of all proportion'.
Harold Wilson was before my time but his very
Northernness makes me think he'd have been my favourite Prime Minister.
"He is fantastic and very Northern to the point where he is bringing out all my
Northernness - not that I need much help in that department!" So would Melanie marry again?
A call has gone out for scholars and practitioners in the fields of film, photography and fine art to contribute to the conference, entitled
Northernness: Ideas and Images of the North in Visual Culture.