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In:Nordic Literature: A comparative history: Volume II: Figural nodes
Edited by Steven P. Sondrup, Mark B. Sandberg, Nathaniel Kramer, Christopher Oscarson, Linda Haverty Rugg and Karin Sanders
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages 38] 2026
► pp. 472–489

Disfiguring the home

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Article outline
  • Looking at home in a certain way
  • Defacement of the theatrical home
  • Inhabitation as experimental theater
  • The luxury of imagining destruction
  • Notes
  • Works cited
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