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Contents:
The modernist tower : a many-faceted symbol / Peter Fjagesund. Exile and literary modernism / Anders Olsson -- Disrespecting poetry : notes on the absurd with a special reference to the works of Gunnar Ekelof, Henri Michaux, and Pentti Saarikoski / Janna Kantola -- Nordic blossoms : The Greek anthology in twentieth-century Finnish and Finland-Swedish poetry / H. K. Riikonen -- Weird realism and the modernist short story : the case of Tage Aurell / Beata Agrell -- Short fiction as enstrangement : from Franz Kafka to Tarjei Vesaas and Kjell Askildsen / Jakob Lothe -- Jean Rhys and Cora Sandel : two views on the modern metropolis / Tone Selboe -- Magical modernism : monstrous moments within the work of Per Hojholt / Karen-Margrethe Simonsen -- Premature and belated modernism? : Strindberg and British censorship / Tore Rem -- Nietzsche in Denmark / Steen Klitgard Povlsen -- The art of timeliness and anachronism : European modernist poetry in several Icelandic mirrors / Astraour Eysteinsson -- From genre to text : the dramatic monologue in Swedish lyrical modernism / Mats Jansson -- T. S. Eliot and Paal Brekke : Norwegian lyrical modernism in its early days / Hans H. Skei -- The modernist tower : a many-faceted symbol / Peter Fjagesund.
Summary:
Demonstrates that the emergence of Modernism in the Nordic literatures is closely related to, and inspired by, the modernizing works and movements in early 20th century Europe.
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