Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality

• 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
• Subjects: Literature: history & criticism; Literary theory; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literature; European literature; Literature, Modern-20th century; Literature, Modern-21st century; Literature-Philosophy
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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