“A past that has never been present”: The Literary Experience of Childhood and Nostalgia

This essay explores the modernist aesthetic involved in creating a fictive, nostalgic, childhood experience. Evoking the experience of childhood through fiction is as close to actually reliving childhood as we can get. The author argues that it is possible to actually transport the reader into not o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Niklas Salmose
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lodz University Press 2018-10-01
Series:Text Matters
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/article/view/3750