Mysterious Minds The Making of Private and Collective Consciousness in Marja-Liisa Vartio's Novels

• Main Author: Nykänen, Elise (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Helsinki Finnish Literature Society / SKS 2017
• Series: Studia Fennica Litteraria 10
• Subjects: Finland; Literature & literary studies; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Conscious & unconscious; consciousness presentation; fictional minds; modernism; narrative theory; marja-liisa vartio
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This study examines the narrative tools, techniques, and structures that Marja-Liisa Vartio, a classic of Finnish post-war modernism, used in presenting fictional minds in her narrative prose. The study contributes to the academic discussion on formal and thematic conventions of modernism by address...