| 书目名称 | Semi-Peripheral Realism |
| 副标题 | Nation and Form on t |
| 编辑 | Christinna Hazzard |
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| 概述 | Offers an original study of Nordic postcolonial literature.Contributes to the discussion about the borders of Europe.Creates a dialogue between two literary cultures that have not yet been explored in |
| 丛书名称 | New Comparisons in World Literature |
| 图书封面 |  |
| 描述 | This book explores the geopolitical and symbolic borders of Europe through the concept of the semi-periphery. Focusing on the North Atlantic island nations, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, and Turkey – a set of very different social and cultural landscapes – the book compares the semi-peripheral aesthetics of Halldór Laxness’s and William Heinesen’s novels with the semi-peripheral city and borderscapes in works by Orhan Pamuk and Latife Tekin. It offers new readings of texts such as Laxness’s .The Atom Station. and Pamuk’s .Snow., and provides original readings of works that little has been written about in English, such as Heinesen’s .The Black Cauldron. and Tekin’s .Swords of Ice.. Making use of the theory of uneven and combined development and world systems theory, the book illustrates that the experience of nation-building and capitalist modernisation in the semi-periphery results in a particular realist aesthetic that is remarkably similar across different regional literatures. The book’s world-literary method shows that the semi-periphery constitutes a vital and productive area of study both for world literature and for broadening our understanding of colonialism and imperial |
| 出版日期 | Book 2024 |
| 关键词 | Realism; Scandinavian Literature; Literature and Postcolonial Studies; Modernity; Semi-periphery; Nation- |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53843-8 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-53845-2 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-53843-8Series ISSN 2634-6095 Series E-ISSN 2634-6109 |
| issn_series | 2634-6095 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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