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Locating August Strindberg's prose : modernism, transnationalism, and setting / Anna Westerståhl Stenport.
"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.
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781442660403 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1442660406 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781442690202 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1442690208 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 216 pages)
- Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2010]
- Copyright: ©2010
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-204) and index. |
| Formatted Contents 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. |
| Language Note: | Includes some text in French and Swedish. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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