"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."
- ISBN13 9780820412634
- Publish Date 1 August 1990
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 152
- Language English