Overview
- Examines Nordic poetry, fiction, and children’s literature
- Considers the social, political, and technological uses of space in literature
- Incorporates literary urban studies, ecocriticism, and affect theory
Part of the book series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies (GSLS)
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About this book
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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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Whose Place Is This Anyway? On the Social Uses of Space and Power
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Where Do You Feel? Spaces, Emotions, and Technology
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Which Language Do You Use? Spaces of Language and Text
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Is This a Possible Space? Potentialities of Space
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Reviews
“Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality makes a valuable contribution to spatial literary studies. As globalization and online interconnection have tied us closer together while at the same time compounding divisions, it is urgent to understand the changing relationships of space and culture. This volume brings together critical readings of a variety of spatial theories with provocative arguments about space in Nordic literary culture, especially Finnish and Swedish. Kristina Malmio and Kaisa Kurikka, and the writers they bring together in Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality, further establish spatial literary studies as a central issue in Nordic literary and cultural studies. The book will be a must-read study for anyone interested in literature and space, and in the literature of the Nordic countries.” (Andrew Nestingen, Professor of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kristina Malmio is University Lecturer, Adjunct Professor in Nordic Literature at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and leader of the research project “Late Modern Spatiality in Finland-Swedish Prose Literature.”
Kaisa Kurikka is Researcher and Adjunct Professor in the School of History, Culture, and Arts Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. She has a doctorate in Finnish Literature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality
Editors: Kristina Malmio, Kaisa Kurikka
Series Title: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23353-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23352-5Published: 11 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23355-6Published: 11 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23353-2Published: 14 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2578-9694
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5188
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 307
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Literature, Contemporary Literature, Literary Theory