Locating August Strindberg's Prose : : Modernism, Transnationalism, and Setting / / Anna Westerstahl Stenport.

• VerfasserIn: Stenport, Anna Westerstahl,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. National Betrayal: Public, Private, and Railway Travel in A Madman's Defence --; 2. Rural Modernism: Ethnography, Photography, and Recollection in Among French Peasants --; 3. Parisian Streets, Pre-Surrealism, and Pastoral Landscapes in Inferno --; 4. Speed, Displacements, and Berlin Modernity in The Cloister --; 5. Recording, Habitation, and Colonial Imaginations in The Roofing Ceremony --; Works Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442690202
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442690202
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Anna Westerstahl Stenport.

The setting of a novel is more than just an anonymous, interchangeable backdrop. In Locating August Strindberg's Prose, Anna Westerståhl Stenport argues that spatial setting is a key - though often neglected - tool for exploring the fundamentals of European literary modernism.Stenport examines the importance of location by exploring the prose of Swedish exile August Strindberg (1849-1912), challenging previous studies of the author that have focused on identity and subject formation. Strindberg wrote in both Swedish and French, situating his stories in various places across Europe - from Berlin to the French countryside, the Austrian Alps, and Stockholm - to purposely destabilize concepts of national belonging, language, and literary history. Close readings of Strindberg's prose find that his boundary-challenging narratives redefine and rewrite the meaning of a marginal literary identity. By contextualizing Strindberg against other early modernists, including Kafka, Conrad, Rilke, and Breton, Stenport emphasizes the burgeoning transnationality of literature at the turn of the last century.