title: From politics to existence: tendencies in the contemporary Danish-Nordic literature
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metadata.value: Stidsen, Marianne
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-08-07T08:54:08Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-08-07T08:54:08Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-06
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metadata.value: Marianne Stidsen. Fra politik til eksistens: tendenser i den nyeste Dansk-Nordiske litteratur. Scandinavian Philology, 2018, vol. 16, issue 1, pp. 74– 92.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu21.2018.106
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/14682
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metadata.value: During the last two decades, Danish and Scandinavian literature was preoccupied
  with a broad variety of social and political themes. At the time of writing, however, a shift seems to be taking place. Under the influence of other contemporary Nordic authors, a
  number of Danish writers have started to show a growing interest in various existential
  subjects, which are often left out of sight or even despised by their politically motivated
  colleagues. In this paper, I will shed light on these new tendencies by touching upon
  works of a number of contemporary Danish-Nordic authors, namely those of Karl Ove
  Knausgård, Sara Stridsberg, Christina Hagen, Signe Gjessing, Christina Hesselholdt,
  Peter Adolphsen, Jesper Wung Sung, and Niels Frank. Moreover, I will compare these
  works with the so-called existential turn in the Danish literary history when a group
  of young poets, most important Søren Ulrik Thomsen, confronted the predominant
  Marxist’s understanding of literature back in the early eighties. Finally, I will attempt
  to situate this whole discussion within a broader philosophical context, pointing out
  that the existential literature of today is not as unworldly and escapist as one may be
  tempted to think. On the contrary, this new literature can be said to carry on the tradition
  of the philosophers Immanuel Kant and Søren Kierkegaard who brought about a
  fruitful understanding of modernity and stressed the importance of notions such as
  subjectivity and autonomy. In addition to that, this new existential awakening can be
  said to restore Isiah Berlin’s famous concept of negative liberty that most contemporary
  literature and literary criticism, until now, have disregarded.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 16; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: New Existentialism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: contemporary Danish-Nordic literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: modernity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: subjectivity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: autonomy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: negative and positive liberty
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: From politics to existence: tendencies in the contemporary Danish-Nordic literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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