Novel Districts: Critical Readings of Monika Fagerholm

"Finland-Swedish writer Monika Fagerholm is one of the most important contemporary Nordic authors. Her experimental, puzzling and daring novels, such as Underbara kvinnor vid vatten (1994) and Den amerikanska flickan (2004), have attracted much critical attention. She has won several literary awards...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-264502026-05-04T18:57:19Z Novel Districts: Critical Readings of Monika Fagerholm Österlund, Mia Malmio, Kristina postmodernism contemporary fiction literary theory feminist fiction girlhood American Girl Arielle Greenberg Finland Intertextuality Monika Fagerholm Sweden thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia::1DNF Finland thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia::1DNF Finland thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers "Finland-Swedish writer Monika Fagerholm is one of the most important contemporary Nordic authors. Her experimental, puzzling and daring novels, such as Underbara kvinnor vid vatten (1994) and Den amerikanska flickan (2004), have attracted much critical attention. She has won several literary awards, including the Nordic prize from the Swedish Academy in 2016; her works have travelled across national and cultural borders as they have now been translated in USA, Europe, Eastern Europe and Russia. Fagerholm’s wild and visionary depictions of girlhood have long had an impact on the Nordic literary landscape; currently, she has many literary followers among young female writers and readers in Finland and Sweden. Novel Districts. Critical Readings of Monika Fagerholm is the first major study of Fagerholm’s works. In this edited volume, literary scholars explore the central themes and features that permeate Fagerholm’s works and introduce novel ways to understand and interpret her writings. The book begins with an introduction to her life, letters and the minority literature context of her writing and briefly describes the scholarship on Fagerholm’s works. After that, Finnish and Swedish scholars and experts on Fagerholm scrutinize her oeuvre in the light of up-to-date literary theory. The insights, theories and concepts of gender, feminist and girlhood studies as well as narratology, poststructuralism, posthumanism and reception studies are tested in close readings of Fagerholm’s works published between 1990 and 2012. Thus, the volume enhances and deepens the understanding of Fagerholm’s fiction and invites the attention of readers not yet familiar with her work. The articles demonstrate the multitude of ways in which literary and cultural conventions can be innovatively re-employed within 20th and 21th century literature to reveal new perspectives on contemporary Finnish and Nordic literature and ongoing cultural and social developments." 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2016-09-26 00:00:00 2020-04-01T13:58:56Z 2016 book 617146 OCN: 1030820859 1458-5278 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32128 9789522227942;9789522227959 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26450 eng Studia Fennica Litteraria open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32128/1/617146.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32128/1/617146.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32128/1/617146.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32128/1/617146.pdf Finnish Literature Society / SKS 10.21435/sflit.9 10.21435/sflit.9 8ceefe60-b6e9-4502-8498-ff110bb0f062 Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation grant and SKS 9789522227942;9789522227959 262 Helsinki open access
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Novel Districts: Critical Readings of Monika Fagerholm
title Novel Districts: Critical Readings of Monika Fagerholm
title_full Novel Districts: Critical Readings of Monika Fagerholm
title_fullStr Novel Districts: Critical Readings of Monika Fagerholm
title_full_unstemmed Novel Districts: Critical Readings of Monika Fagerholm
title_short Novel Districts: Critical Readings of Monika Fagerholm
title_sort novel districts critical readings of monika fagerholm
topic postmodernism
contemporary fiction
literary theory
feminist fiction
girlhood
American Girl
Arielle Greenberg
Finland
Intertextuality
Monika Fagerholm
Sweden
thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia
thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia::1DNF Finland
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia
thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia::1DNF Finland
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
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contemporary fiction
literary theory
feminist fiction
girlhood
American Girl
Arielle Greenberg
Finland
Intertextuality
Monika Fagerholm
Sweden
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