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Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary History
Edited by Gunilla Hermansson and Jens Lohfert Jørgensen
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 15] 2020
► pp. 161–174

Erotic reason and female desire in Maria Jotuni and Elin Wägner

Article outline
  • Two authors, different literary trajectories
  • The deviant widow and citizen
  • The unhappy couple of reason and emotion
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
Published online: 1 December 2020
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