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Locating August Strindberg's prose : modernism, transnationalism, and setting / Anna Westerståhl Stenport

Author
Stenport, Anna Westerståhl
Published
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 216 pages)
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Language Note
Includes some text in French and Swedish.
Contents
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.
Summary
"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."--Jacket
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ISBN
9781442660403 (electronic bk.)
1442660406 (electronic bk.)
9781442690202 (electronic bk.)
1442690208 (electronic bk.)
9781442641990
1442641991
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-204) and index.
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