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oapen-20.500.12657-229592024-03-22T19:23:35Z Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality Malmio, Kristina Kurikka, Kaisa Literature European literature Literature, Modern—20th century Literature, Modern—21st century Literature—Philosophy thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theory thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 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. 2020-03-18 13:36:15 2020-04-01T08:57:46Z 2020-04-01T08:57:46Z 2020 book 1007201 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22959 eng Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies application/pdf n/a 1007201.pdf https://www.springer.com/9783030233532 Springer Nature 10.1007/978-3-030-23353-2 10.1007/978-3-030-23353-2 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 307 Cham open access
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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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