UID:
edocfu_9959243298402883
Format:
1 online resource (225 p.)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
1-4426-6040-6
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1-4426-9020-8
Content:
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."--Jacket
Content:
"The setting of a novel is more than just an anonymous, interchangeable backdrop. In Locating August Strindberg's Prose, Anna Westerstahl Stenport argues that spatial setting is a key - though often neglected - tool for exploring the fundamentals of European literary modernism
Note:
National betrayal : public, private, and railway travel in A madman's defence -- Rural modernism : ethonography, photography, and recollection in Among French peasants -- Parisian streets, pre-surrealism, and pastoral landscapes in Inferno -- Speed, displacements, and Berlin modernity in The cloister -- Recording, habitation, and colonial imaginations in The roofing ceremony.
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Issued also in print.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4426-4199-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442690202
