LEADER 04829nam 2201093z- 450 001 9910557366003321 005 20220111 035 $a(CKB)5400000000042231 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/76743 035 $a(oapen)doab76743 035 $a(EXLCZ)995400000000042231 100 $a20202201d2021 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aNordic and European Modernisms 210 $aBasel, Switzerland$cMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute$d2021 215 $a1 online resource (200 p.) 311 08$a3-0365-1523-2 311 08$a3-0365-1524-0 330 $aThis e-book explores the growth and development of Nordic modernisms in a European context. Concentrating on and yet not limiting itself to the study of literary texts, the book shows that the emergence of modernism in the Nordic countries is linked to, and inspired by, the innovative works published in Western Europe and the USA towards the end of the nineteenth century and in the first decades of the twentieth century. Presenting Nordic art as multi-dimensional and dynamic, it also shows that, while responding to aspects of these innovative works, Nordic modernism itself contributed to modernism as a complex international trend. The plural form "modernisms" in the book's title indicates that the contributors adopt an understanding of modernism that, while recognizing the importance of the modernist movement between circa 1890 and 1940, is sufficiently elastic to include various forms of extension and continuation of Nordic modernisms in the post-war period. The book shows that the experience of crisis-cultural, political, moral, aesthetic-that underlies modernist artists' invention of radically new forms of expression was by no means limited to just one country or one identifiable group of writers; nor was it, as modernisms' global relevance makes clear, restricted to just one continent. At the level of historical reality, the First World War represents the culmination of a crisis which had its beginnings several decades earlier. The Second World War, along with the Holocaust, represents a second culmination of the crisis, and there is, this book suggests, a sense in which the experience of crisis has continued to influence and shape Nordic literature written in the post-war period. Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the experience of crisis has increasingly been extended to include a growing uncertainty about the future prompted by the reality of climate change. 606 $aLiterature & literary studies$2bicssc 610 $aadaptation 610 $aaesthetics and ideology 610 $aAmos 610 $aavant-garde 610 $acircus 610 $acontemporary poetry 610 $across-fertilization 610 $aDavid 610 $adecadence 610 $adream 610 $aEuropean 610 $agender performativity 610 $ageography of modernism 610 $aGoldberg 610 $aGrossman 610 $aHamsun's Hunger 610 $aHedda Gabler 610 $aHenrik 610 $aHenrik Ibsen 610 $ahistory of modernism 610 $aIbsen 610 $aIsrael 610 $aIsraeli literature 610 $aJames Joyce 610 $aLeah 610 $aliterary periods 610 $aliterature 610 $ameaning and significance 610 $ameta-cultural code 610 $amodern metropolis 610 $amodernisation 610 $amodernism 610 $amodernism and realism 610 $amodernism and tradition 610 $amodernisms 610 $amodernist aesthetics 610 $an/a 610 $anarrative crisis 610 $aNobel Prize 610 $aNordic 610 $aNordic modernism 610 $aNorwegian literature 610 $aOz 610 $aPeer Gynt 610 $apoetry 610 $areception 610 $areception history 610 $aretranslation 610 $aRosmersholm 610 $aSandel's Alberta and Freedom 610 $aScandinavian modernism 610 $ascience fiction 610 $asecularisation 610 $aSigmund Freud 610 $astreetwalking 610 $asurrealism 610 $aSwedish literary criticism 610 $atheater 610 $atranslation 610 $aUlysses 610 $aurban space 610 $aWilliam Faulkner 610 $aZionism 615 7$aLiterature & literary studies 700 $aLothe$b Jakob$4edt$0480142 702 $aLothe$b Jakob$4oth 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910557366003321 996 $aNordic and European Modernisms$93027191 997 $aUNINA