Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Malmio, Kristina (Editor), Kurikka, Kaisa (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
• Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies,
• Subjects: European literature.; Literature, Modern > 20th century.; Literature, Modern > 21st century.; Literature > Philosophy.; European Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; Literary Theory.
• Online Access: Link to Metadata

Summary

This open access collection offers a detailed mapping of recent Nordic literature and its different genres (fiction, poetry, and children's literature) through the perspective of spatiality. Concentrating on contemporary Nordic literature, the book presents a distinctive view on the spatial turn and widens the understanding of Nordic literature outside of canonized authors. Examining literatures by Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish authors, the chapters investigate a recurrent theme of social criticism and analyze this criticism against the welfare state and power hierarchies in spatial terms. The chapters explore various narrative worlds and spaces-from the urban to parks and forests, from textual spaces to spatial thematics, studying these spatial features in relation to the problems of late modernity.

Physical Description

XVII, 307 p. 7 illus. online resource.

ISBN

9783030233532

ISSN

2634-5188

DOI

10.1007/978-3-030-23353-2

Access

Open Access