{"product_id":"9781442660403","title":"Locating August Strindberg's Prose: Modernism, Transnationalism, and Setting","description":"The setting of a novel is more than just an anonymous, interchangeable backdrop. In \u003cem\u003eLocating August Strindberg's Prose\u003c\/em\u003e, Anna Westerståhl Stenport argues that spatial setting is a key - though often neglected - tool for exploring the fundamentals of European literary modernism.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStenport examines the importance of location by exploring the prose of Swedish exile August Strindberg (1849-1912), challenging previous studies of the author that have focused on identity and subject formation. Strindberg wrote in both Swedish and French, situating his stories in various places across Europe - from Berlin to the French countryside, the Austrian Alps, and Stockholm - to purposely destabilize concepts of national belonging, language, and literary history. Close readings of Strindberg's prose find that his boundary-challenging narratives redefine and rewrite the meaning of a marginal literary identity. By contextualizing Strindberg against other early modernists, including Kafka, Conrad, Rilke, and Breton, Stenport emphasizes the burgeoning transnationality of literature at the turn of the last century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154600706288,"sku":"9781442660403","price":57.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442660403_p0.jpg?v=1763807675","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442660403","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}