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 turn and...
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| Formato: | Electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing
2020.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2020. |
| Colección: | Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies,
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430278206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction: Storied Spaces of Contemporary Nordic Literature
- Part I Whose Place Is This Anyway? On the Social Uses of Space and Power
- 2. On the Commons: A Geocritical Reading of Amager Fælled
- 3. Mapping a Postmodern Dystopia: Hassan Loo Sattarvandi’s Construction of a Swedish Suburb
- 4. Living Side by Side in an Individualized Society: Home, Place, and Social Relations in Late Modern Swedish-Language Picturebooks
- Part II Where Do You Feel? Spaces, Emotions, and Technology
- 5. Love, Longing, and the Smartphone: Lena Andersson, Vigdis Hjorth and Hanne Ørstavik
- 6. “Never Give Up Hopelessness!?”: Emotions and Spatiality in Contemporary Finnish Experimental Poetry
- Part III Which Language Do You Use? Spaces of Language and Text
- 7. Stavanger, Pre- and Postmodern: Øyvind Rimbereid’s Poetry and the Tradition of Topographic Verse
- 8. The Poetics of Blank Spaces and Intervals in Selected Works of Elisabeth Rynell
- 9. What Have They Done to My Song? Recycled Language in Monika Fagerholm’s The American Girl
- Part IV Is This a Possible Space? Potentialities of Space
- 10. “A Geo-Ontological Thump”: Ontological Instability and the Folding City in Mikko Rimminen’s Early Prose
- 11. Uncanny Spaces of Transformation: Fabulations of the Forest in Finland-Swedish Prose
- 12. “The World in a Small Rectangle”: Spatialities in Monika Fagerholm’s Novels
- 13. The Miracle of the Mesh: Global Imaginary and Ecological Thinking in Ralf Andtbacka’s Wunderkammer.
