34.296, Books: Nordic Utopias and Dystopias: Ahlbäck, Teittinen, Lassén-Seger (eds.)

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Subject: 34.296, Books: Nordic Utopias and Dystopias: Ahlbäck, Teittinen, Lassén-Seger (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 23:43:48
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Nordic Utopias and Dystopias: Ahlbäck, Teittinen, Lassén-Seger (eds.)

 


Title: Nordic Utopias and Dystopias 
Subtitle: From 
Series Title: FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures   17  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/fillm.17 


Editor: Pia Maria Ahlbäck
Editor: Jouni Teittinen
Editor: Maria Lassén-Seger

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027257291 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027257291 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027257291 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027212641 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027212641 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027212641 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

The Nordic countries have long been subject to certain idealised, even utopian
imaginaries, particularly with regard to images of pristine nature and the
societal ideals of democracy, equality and education. On the other hand, such
projections inevitably invite dissent, irony and intimations of the utopia’s
dark underside. Things may yet take, or may have already taken, a dystopic
course. The present volume offers twelve contributions on utopias and
dystopias in Nordic literature and culture. Geographically, the articles cover
the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, as well as the
autonomous area of Greenland. Through the articles’ varied subjects — ranging
from avant-garde literature and long poems to noir TV-series, young adult
fiction, popular historiography, and political discourse in literature outside
of Norden — the volume brings forth a historically rich, multi-layered picture
of social, cultural and environmental imagination in the Nordic countries.
"Nordic Utopias and Dystopias" is thus of interest not only to specialists in
dystopian and utopian research but more broadly to scholars of literature and
culture, and the political and social sciences, especially but not exclusively
in the Nordic context.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature


Written In: English  (eng)

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