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Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Malmio, Kristina.
Other Authors: Kurikka, Kaisa.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: Storied Spaces of Contemporary Nordic Literature
  • Nordic Literature and/after the Spatial Turn
  • Contributions to This Volume
  • References
  • Part I: Whose Place Is This Anyway? On the Social Uses of Space and Power
  • Chapter 2: On the Commons: A Geocritical Reading of Amager Fælled
  • Amager: And Amager Common
  • What Is a Fælled?
  • Asta Olivia Nordenhof: The Tenderness of the Common
  • Lea Løppenthin: The Nomadic Common
  • Niels Henning Falk Jensby: The Sexual Politics of the Common
  • Liv Sejrbo Lidegaard: The Common as Common Ground
  • Amager Fælled as Political Utopia
  • References
  • Other Resources
  • Chapter 3: Mapping a Postmodern Dystopia: Hassan Loo Sattarvandi's Construction of a Swedish Suburb
  • Geography as Destiny: A Cage of Exile-Socially Deprived and Culturally Appropriated
  • The Sensorial Flight into Another Dimension: Drugs and Music
  • Still: A "Cartographic" Novel? Music as a Local-Global Suburban Dynamics
  • To Situate a Postmodern Dystopia Stratigraphically: A Concluding Discussion
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Living Side by Side in an Individualized Society: Home, Place, and Social Relations in Late Modern Swedish-Language Picturebooks
  • Broken Neighbors: A Shackled Community
  • At the Campsite: Cohabitation and a  Criminal Manhunt
  • Different Flats, Same House: Where You Live and Who You Are
  • Reproducing Places: Final Reflections and Conclusions
  • References
  • Part II: Where Do You Feel? Spaces, Emotions, and Technology
  • Chapter 5: Love, Longing, and the Smartphone: Lena Andersson, Vigdis Hjorth, and Hanne Ørstavik
  • The Language of Love and Longing
  • Restless Longing in a Standby Mode
  • Longing for a Voice.
  • The (Im)Possibility of a Meeting
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 6: "Never Give Up Hopelessness!?": Emotions and Spatiality in Contemporary Finnish Experimental Poetry
  • Experimental Poetry and Postmodernism
  • Poetics and Politics of Emotion
  • Varjofinlandia and the Voices of Finnish Depression
  • Fatty XL and Finnish "Social" Flarf
  • Eino Santanen's Bank Note Poetry and Finance Capitalism
  • Poetics and Politics of Twenty-First-Century Finnish Experimental Poetry
  • References
  • Part III: Which Language Do You Use? Spaces of Language and Text
  • Chapter 7: Stavanger, Pre- and Postmodern: Øyvind Rimbereid's Poetry and the Tradition of Topographic Verse
  • Topographic Verse
  • Place and Space in Topographic Verse
  • Solaris Corrected
  • Life as Work
  • Jimmen
  • Stavanger, Pre- and Postmodern
  • References
  • Chapter 8: The Poetics of Blank Spaces and Intervals in Selected Works of Elisabeth Rynell
  • The Text-as-Building Metaphor in I Mina Hus
  • Scrutinizing Modernist Foundations in the Fusion of Poetry and Prose
  • References
  • Chapter 9: What Have They Done to My Song? Recycled Language in Monika Fagerholm's The American Girl
  • A Rumble of Borrowed Words and Sounds
  • A Song Fragment Travels Through a Novel
  • Reading the Novel as Song
  • Language from Elsewhere
  • Continuous Transformation
  • References
  • Part IV: Is This a Possible Space? Potentialities of Space
  • Chapter 10: "A Geo-ontological Thump": Ontological Instability and the Folding City in Mikko Rimminen's Early Prose
  • Cities as Folds
  • The Fold: A Study of Appearance and Substance
  • City Folds in Pölkky
  • Rimminen's Unwritten Apocalyptic Helsinki Trilogy: "An Extract from a Manuscript"
  • To the End of the World: Pussikaljaromaani
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 11: Uncanny Spaces of Transformation: Fabulations of the Forest in Finland-Swedish Prose.
  • Thinking Literary Forests with Deleuze and Guattari
  • Territorializing the Forest as Uncanny
  • Vanishing Points in the Forest Darkness
  • Disappearing into Smooth Forest
  • Conclusion: Uncanny Forest as the Expression of Late Modern Estrangement
  • References
  • Chapter 12: "The World in a Small Rectangle": Spatialities in Monika Fagerholm's Novels
  • Indistinct Distinctions
  • Time and Timelessness as an Effect of Place
  • Spatiality and Narrative Potential
  • The Real and the Imaginary Place
  • Potential Subjectivities
  • References
  • Chapter 13: The Miracle of the Mesh: Global Imaginary and Ecological Thinking in Ralf Andtbacka's Wunderkammer
  • Collecting and Mapping the Old and the New World
  • "Wunderkammer," Cabinets of Curiosities, and (The Ironic) Revival of Global Imaginary
  • The Chinese Box: Meshing Together Objects Within Objects
  • The Wonder of the Wunderkammer: The Uncanny Oddness of the Ordinary and the Extraordinary
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index.

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