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European and Nordic modernisms / edited by Mats Jansson, Jakob Lothe and Hannu Riikonen.

Title
European and Nordic modernisms / edited by Mats Jansson, Jakob Lothe and Hannu Riikonen.
Publication
[Norwich] : Norvik Press ; [Chester Springs, PA : U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions], 2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Jansson, Mats, 1956-
  • Lothe, Jakob.
  • Riikonen, Hannu.
Description
258 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
Demonstrates that the emergence of Modernism in the Nordic literatures is closely related to, and inspired by, the modernizing works and movements in early 20th century Europe.
Series Statement
[Norvik Press series A ; no. 23]
Uniform Title
Series A (Norvik Press) ; no. 23.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Modernism (Literature) > Scandinavia > History and criticism
  • Modernism (Literature) > Europe > History and criticism
  • Scandinavian literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • European literature > 20th century > History and criticism
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
Note
  • Distributor from sticker on jacket.
  • Series from jacket.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Why did some authors become modernists? : early high modernism and multipolar identities / Torsten Pettersson -- Exile and literary modernism / Anders Olsson -- Disrespecting poetry : notes on the absurd with a special reference to the works of Gunnar Ekelof, Henri Michaux, and Pentti Saarikoski / Janna Kantola -- Nordic blossoms : The Greek anthology in twentieth-century Finnish and Finland-Swedish poetry / H. K. Riikonen -- Weird realism and the modernist short story : the case of Tage Aurell / Beata Agrell -- Short fiction as enstrangement : from Franz Kafka to Tarjei Vesaas and Kjell Askildsen / Jakob Lothe -- Jean Rhys and Cora Sandel : two views on the modern metropolis / Tone Selboe -- Magical modernism : monstrous moments within the work of Per Hojholt / Karen-Margrethe Simonsen -- Premature and belated modernism? : Strindberg and British censorship / Tore Rem -- Nietzsche in Denmark / Steen Klitgard Povlsen -- The art of timeliness and anachronism : European modernist poetry in several Icelandic mirrors / Astraour Eysteinsson -- From genre to text : the dramatic monologue in Swedish lyrical modernism / Mats Jansson -- T. S. Eliot and Paal Brekke : Norwegian lyrical modernism in its early days / Hans H. Skei -- The modernist tower : a many-faceted symbol / Peter Fjagesund.
ISBN
1870041585
OCLC
  • 60844341
  • SCSB-10859541
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library