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.