A flagrant lack of common decency or literary truth? Authorial ethos in Katarina Frostenson's later works.
This article examines authorial ethos in Swedish poet Katarina Frostenson's literary response to the crisis in the Swedish Academy 2017–2018, marked by allegations of misconduct and by institutional upheaval. Through a textual analysis of Frostenson's quartet K (2019), F – en färd (2020, "F – a jour...
| Publicado en: | Frontiers of Narrative Studies Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 297 - 312 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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De Gruyter
Oct2025
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