Nordic and European Modernisms

• Other Authors: Lothe, Jakob (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Literature & literary studies; modernisms; Nordic; European; literature; translation; decadence; William Faulkner; Swedish literary criticism; Nobel Prize; modernism; reception history; aesthetics and ideology; meaning and significance; theater; avant-garde; Norwegian literature; Scandinavian modernism; cross-fertilization; circus; meta-cultural code; modernist aesthetics; Nordic modernism; poetry; surrealism; dream; urban space; gender performativity; Hamsun's Hunger; Sandel's Alberta and Freedom; modern metropolis; streetwalking; science fiction; contemporary poetry; modernisation; secularisation; Henrik Ibsen; Rosmersholm; Sigmund Freud; James Joyce; Ulysses; retranslation; Ibsen; Henrik; Oz; Amos; Grossman; David; Goldberg; Leah; Israel; Israeli literature; Peer Gynt; Hedda Gabler; adaptation; Zionism; history of modernism; geography of modernism; literary periods; modernism and realism; modernism and tradition; narrative crisis; reception; n/a
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This e-book explores the growth and development of Nordic modernisms in a European context. Concentrating on and yet not limiting itself to the study of literary texts, the book shows that the emergence of modernism in the Nordic countries is linked to, and inspired by, the innovative works publishe...