Nordic Literature of Decadence

ISBN-13: 9781032091518 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 308 str.

Pirjo Lyytikäinen; Riikka Rossi; Viola Parente-Čapková

Opis

Nordic Literature of Decadence discusses literature from five Nordic countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Estonia and offers alternative perspectives to the cosmopolitan traffic and cultural exchanges of literary decadence that have been explored so far in English language scholarship.

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O autorze

Pirjo Lyytikäinen is Professor of Finnish Literature at the University of Helsinki, and a specialist in symbolism and decadence. She has published extensively on Finnish decadence, and its relationship to French and Nordic decadence.

Riikka Rossi　is a Docent of Finnish literature at the University of Helsinki. She　is a specialist in literary naturalism, and her main interests include the poetics of naturalism from a comparative perspective, primitivism and the　study of literature and emotions.

Viola Parente-Čapková is a Researcher and a Project Leader at the University of Turku. Her major research interests are decadent and symbolist literature in a comparative European perspective and transnational networks of fin de siècle women writers.​

Mirjam Hinrikus　is currently a Senior Researcher at the Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.　Her research focuses on discourses of decadence, and antifeminism and feminism in Estonian literature and culture.