Locating August Strindberg's Prose : Modernism, Transnationalism, and Setting /

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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 acr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stenport, Anna Westerståhl
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Swedish
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2010]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Strindberg, August, > 1849-1912.
Strindberg, August, > 1849-1912 > Cadre de l'oeuvre.
Strindberg, August, > 1849-1912 > Critique et interpretation.
Strindberg, August, > 1849-1912 > Criticism and interpretation.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Fictie.
Transnationalism in literature.
Setting (Literature)
Modernism (Literature)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
Espace et temps (Litterature)
Modernisme (Litterature)
Transnationalisme dans la litterature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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
"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
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 pages).
ISBN:9781442690202

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