| Autore |
Ahlbäck Pia Maria
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Amsterdam/Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2022
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (268 pages)
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| Disciplina |
839/.5
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| Altri autori (Persone) |
TeittinenJouni
Lassén-SegerMaria
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| Collana |
FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures
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| Soggetto topico |
Utopias in literature
Dystopias in literature
Scandinavian literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Scandinavian literature - 21st century - History and criticism
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| Soggetto genere / forma |
Literary criticism
Essays.
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| ISBN |
90-272-5729-9
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Nordic Utopias and Dystopias -- Editorial page -- FILLM Advisory Board -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Series editor's preface -- Introduction -- The Nordic, "Norden," the North -- Shifts in dystopian imagination -- The structure of the book -- References -- Part 1. Nordic welfare state utopianism -- From Niels Klim to Björk's Utopia: Some historical and present trajectories of utopia and dystopia in the Nordic tradition -- "Project Norden" -- Subterranean utopias: A sacred geography -- The Anthropocene -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Crisis after utopia: Intellectuals, academics and the Scandinavian debate on utopia at the turn of the 1980s: The case of the Swedish magazine KRIS -- A satirical utopia -- Nordic academics in search of utopia -- Intellectuals without fixed utopias -- References -- Utopianism reinstated: The fall and rise of a society in Zombie city -- Critical utopia and transformative utopianism -- The grand narrative of zombie fiction -- Zombie City and the welfare state -- Re-negotiating the future -- Conclusion -- References -- An ethnographic account of the Nordic utopia in Scotland -- The Nordic Noir Book Club: A case study -- Members' views -- The crime genre -- Utopia: The good and the non-existent -- A political vision -- Scotland and the Nordic region: A hand in glove? -- The darker side of the Nordic region -- Conclusion -- References -- Part 2. Nature in transformation -- Creeping into the present: Iida Rauma's Seksistä ja matematiikasta as eco-dystopian realism -- The realist novel in the age of global environmental issues -- Living towards extinction -- Ordering of the world -- Conclusion -- References -- Snowy state: The children's history of Sweden -- History -- The idea of North -- Book one: When the People Arrived -- Book two: Look there, a Town!.
Book three: When Sweden Was at Its Greatest -- Book four: When the Swedes Moved to Town -- Conclusion -- References -- Frozen futures or tropical Greenland?: Climate change arctopias in Cold Earth and Allatta! 2040 -- Arctic utopia and dystopia -- Beyond apocalypse: Cold Earth as climate change dystopia -- Arctopias from Greenland: From Cold Earth to Allatta! 2040 (2015) -- Conclusion -- References -- Children of the district: Pastoral and the welfare state in Monika Fagerholm's The End of the Glitter Scene novels -- An unattainable ideal: The district and the Nordic welfare state as dark pastoral milieus -- "When the summer throws you away": Pastoral and the otherness of children as a critique of the Western child -- "The district hates itself": The end of the glitter scene novels as a description of the Finland-Swedish minority's self-conception -- Conclusion -- References -- Part 3. Confronting dystopian futures -- Harry Martinson's Aniara as a Menippean satire for the Anthropocene -- Nuclear threat and destruction -- Mima, Mimaroben and Isagel -- An end and perhaps a beginning -- Conclusion -- References -- Who is in power, you say?: Two young adult dystopias from modern day Scandinavia -- Exploration of power and reflections on history -- Relations and growth in a new world -- Hero-figures and story structure in the two worlds -- Criticising society without a society: Dystopia in a vacuum -- The implied audience and power -- Conclusion -- References -- Remembering in the age of global warming: Emmi Itäranta's Memory of Water as ecological trauma fiction -- Traces of a throwaway society -- Water and vulnerability -- Entanglements of human and non-human worlds -- Conclusion -- References -- Space for love or arts of living on a damaged planet: Dystopia and utopia in novels by Karin Boye, Johanna Nilsson and Johanna Sinisalo.
The green depth: A space of love and resistance -- Karin Boye's legacy: Johanna Nilsson's det grönare djupet (2015) -- Johanna Sinisalo's Auringon ydin -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
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Nordic Utopias and Dystopias : From Aniara to Allatta!
