MEMORIES OF MODERNITY IN SWEDISH PROSE FICTION

Authors

  • Ingrid Elam

Abstract

If the modern Swedish novel told the story of the individual and his place in history, the postmodern novel reminiscing modernity tells many different stories about the individual and his lack of place in any version of history. Fiction is not so much a means of communicating a better, future society, but rather an alternative view on the present.

Author Biography

Ingrid Elam

Ingrid Elam holds a doctorate in comparative literature and has been active as a literary critic and reviewer in various media since the end of the 1970s. Between 1989 and 2000 she was Senior Arts Editor with the newspapers GT, Göteborgsposten and Dagens nyheter. She is currently senior lecturer and head of the School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University, Sweden.

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Published

2007-08-01

Issue

No. 8 (2007)

Section

Articles