UID:
almafu_9958353385302883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781442690202
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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1. National Betrayal: Public, Private, and Railway Travel in A Madman’s Defence --
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2. Rural Modernism: Ethnography, Photography, and Recollection in Among French Peasants --
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3. Parisian Streets, Pre-Surrealism, and Pastoral Landscapes in Inferno --
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4. Speed, Displacements, and Berlin Modernity in The Cloister --
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5. Recording, Habitation, and Colonial Imaginations in The Roofing Ceremony --
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Works Cited --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442690202
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442690202
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442690202
