Book/Printed Material Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality

Title

• Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality

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.

Names

• Kurikka, Kaisa, editor
• Malmio, Kristina, editor

Created / Published

• Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

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 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.

Headings

• -  European literature
• -  Literature--Philosophy
• -  Literature, Modern--20th century
• -  Literature, Modern--21st century
• -  European Literature
• -  Contemporary Literature
• -  Literary Theory

Notes

• -  Description based on publisher-supplied MARC data.
• -  Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0) (SpringerNature-43723)
• -  Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (SpringerNature-41173)

Medium

• 1 online resource (XVII, 307 pages 7 illustrations)

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2019770824

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2019770824

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access
• Open Access

Online Format

• image
• epub

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2019770824

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