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Authors: Malgorzata Anna Packalen (Editor), Sven Gustavsson
ISBN-13: 9789174023336, ISBN-10: 9174023330
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, Sweden
Date Published: November 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Malgorzata Anna Packalen

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Table of Contents

Introduction5
Research on literary modernism in Sweden : an overview9
Swedish literary modernism in context29
Modernism in Poland : the troublesome subject39
From depersonalisation to personal literature61
The advantage of the margin : the avant-garde role of Finland-Swedish modernism77
"Old innovations and real innovations in poetry" : Finland-Swedish modernism91
August Strindberg's discourse on authority : the problem and its context103
"A new cosmos" : Strindberg, science and mimesis115
The inhuman comedy : the later later plays on Lars Noren125
An anthropologist as a modernist writer : some remarks on Bronislaw Malinowski's diary and his field monographies131
Showing and hiding : the paradoxical modernism of Boris Pasternak139
Poetry and modernity147
The new status of women and the modernist novel159
Living in languages : the Jewish miltilingualism as reflected in the Polish and Polish-Jewish literature of the twentieth century167
The Schulzian City177
What happened on the Banbury? : Gombrowicz, eroticism, and the provocation of culture191
Gombrowicz and Milosz : playing with form205
Modernism versus modernity213
Construction of the self in Polish culture : a neglected context of Polish modernism233
Polish culture after Communism : first impressions245

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