In "Spatiality as an Interpretative Approach to Contemporary Scandinavian Culture and Literature" stereotyped perceptions of Nordic space and place are challenged. This monographic issue of the journal "Costellazioni" presents eight articles written by scholars of literature and architecture based in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Italy. Articles that approach different, relatively unknown, spatial arenas in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finland-­Swedish prose and poetry, as well as in urban and suburban welfare architecture. The spatialities explored in the volume fall into three main categories, ranging from the most private and intangible sense of space to places of solid bricks and mortar: (1) the space of the self, an autobiographical dimension which materializes in the volatile virtual reality of chat rooms, a zone of both comfort and discomfort where the telling of an ‘I’ and of its lived environment is filtered through subjectivity, but also present in places and spaces that are the foundation for identity, such as childhood homes or peripheral areas and regional dialects; (2) the space of the body, intended both in the sense of the body ‘as’ (anatomical) space as well as the body ‘in’ space, interacting with the social environment by reflecting it and adapting to it, but also by transforming it; (3) the space of the welfare state, where modernist architecture is the physical manifestation of the democratization of education, work, healthcare, and childcare.

Spatiality as an Interpretative Approach to Contemporary Scandinavian Culture and Literature: Introduction / Anna Wegener. - STAMPA. - (2023), pp. 9-17.

Spatiality as an Interpretative Approach to Contemporary Scandinavian Culture and Literature: Introduction

Anna Wegener
2023

Abstract

In "Spatiality as an Interpretative Approach to Contemporary Scandinavian Culture and Literature" stereotyped perceptions of Nordic space and place are challenged. This monographic issue of the journal "Costellazioni" presents eight articles written by scholars of literature and architecture based in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Italy. Articles that approach different, relatively unknown, spatial arenas in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finland-­Swedish prose and poetry, as well as in urban and suburban welfare architecture. The spatialities explored in the volume fall into three main categories, ranging from the most private and intangible sense of space to places of solid bricks and mortar: (1) the space of the self, an autobiographical dimension which materializes in the volatile virtual reality of chat rooms, a zone of both comfort and discomfort where the telling of an ‘I’ and of its lived environment is filtered through subjectivity, but also present in places and spaces that are the foundation for identity, such as childhood homes or peripheral areas and regional dialects; (2) the space of the body, intended both in the sense of the body ‘as’ (anatomical) space as well as the body ‘in’ space, interacting with the social environment by reflecting it and adapting to it, but also by transforming it; (3) the space of the welfare state, where modernist architecture is the physical manifestation of the democratization of education, work, healthcare, and childcare.
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Charlotte Bundgaard, Sofie Anker-Møller Damgaard, Catia De Marco, Joachim Aagaard Friis, Angela Iuliano, Johanna Lindbo, Henrik Reeh, Camilla Storskog, Anna Wegener
Spatiality as an Interpretative Approach to Contemporary Scandinavian Culture and Literature
Anna Wegener
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