Scandinavian Cultural Radicalism: Literary Commitment and the Collective Novel (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820412634)

Scandinavian Cultural Radicalism explores the development of socialist literary theory and its various manifestations in the literature of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden over a period of two decades. The work examines the efforts of several leftist writers who used a collective novel technique (in which a relatively anonymous group of characters represented a main character ) in an attempt to develop a working class culture. A history of the labor movement and the evolution of social democracies in Scandinavia precedes the analysis of specific collective novels, and argues that there is a strong correlation between the socioeconomic context and literary development of the 1930s.

Author: Francesco de Scott
ISBN-10: 0820412635
ISBN-13: 9780820412634
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1990
Pages: 152
Format: Hardcover