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Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality

Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality

Paperback

Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3030233553
ISBN13: 9783030233556
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Sep 11 2020
Pages: 307
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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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