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Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality
Title:
Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality
Author:
Malmio, Kristina
ISBN:
9783030233532
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Publication Information:
Cham Springer Nature 2020
Physical Description:
1 electronic resource (307 p.)
Abstract:
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.
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