Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality.

• Superior document: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
• Author: Malmio, Kristina.
• TeilnehmendeR: Kurikka, Kaisa.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2019.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (315 pages)

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.