Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality

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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Other Authors: Malmio, Kristina (Editor), Kurikka, Kaisa (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer Nature 2020
Series:Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
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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:1 electronic resource (307 p.)
ISBN:978-3-030-23353-2
Access:Open Access