Contemporary nordic literature and spatiality

Contemporary nordic literature and spatiality / edited by Kristina Malmio, Kaisa Kurikka.

This open access collection offers a detailed mapping of recent Nordic literature and its different genres (fiction, poetry, and childrens 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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Other Authors: Malmio, Kristina (Editor), Kurikka, Kaisa (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Series:Geocriticism and spatial literary studies.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Scandinavian literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Space in literature.
Scandinavian literature
Space in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 Flled
  • 3. Mapping a Postmodern Dystopia: Hassan Loo Sattarvandis 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 rstavik
  • 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: yvind Rimbereids 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 Fagerholms 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 Rimminens 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 Fagerholms Novels
  • 13. The Miracle of the Mesh: Global Imaginary and Ecological Thinking in Ralf Andtbackas Wunderkammer.

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