Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality

Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality

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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 tur...

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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Storied Spaces of Contemporary Nordic Literature
  • Part I Whose Place Is This Anyway? On the Social Uses of Space and Power
  • 2. On the Commons: A Geocritical Reading of Amager Fælled
  • 3. Mapping a Postmodern Dystopia: Hassan Loo Sattarvandi's Construction of a Swedish Suburb
  • 4. Living Side by Side in an Individualized Society: Home, Place, and Social Relations in Late Modern Swedish-Language Picturebooks
  • Part II Where Do You Feel? Spaces, Emotions, and Technology
  • 5. Love, Longing, and the Smartphone: Lena Andersson, Vigdis Hjorth and Hanne Ørstavik
  • 6. "Never Give Up Hopelessness!?": Emotions and Spatiality in Contemporary Finnish Experimental Poetry
  • Part III Which Language Do You Use? Spaces of Language and Text
  • 7. Stavanger, Pre- and Postmodern: Øyvind Rimbereid's Poetry and the Tradition of Topographic Verse
  • 8. The Poetics of Blank Spaces and Intervals in Selected Works of Elisabeth Rynell
  • 9. What Have They Done to My Song? Recycled Language in Monika Fagerholm's The American Girl
  • Part IV Is This a Possible Space? Potentialities of Space
  • 10. "A Geo-Ontological Thump": Ontological Instability and the Folding City in Mikko Rimminen's Early Prose
  • 11. Uncanny Spaces of Transformation: Fabulations of the Forest in Finland-Swedish Prose
  • 12. "The World in a Small Rectangle": Spatialities in Monika Fagerholm's Novels
  • 13. The Miracle of the Mesh: Global Imaginary and Ecological Thinking in Ralf Andtbacka's Wunderkammer.

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