The Bricks of Fiction. Architecture and Scandinavian Literature

This thematic section titled The Bricks of Fiction. Architecture and Scandinavian Literature brings together five international scholars of Scandinavian studies. Stemming from an interdisciplinary research project titled Pappershus, luftslott, ordsmedjor. Arkitektur i nordiska språk och nordisk litteratur conceived by Andrea Meregalli and Camilla Storskog at the University of Milan, Italy, the five articles presented by Aldona Zańko, Massimo Ciaravolo, Luca Gendolavigna, Andrea Romanzi, and Joanna Cymbrykiewic explore the design, patterns, and structures of fiction, and analyse the role and function of architectural elements in two nineteenth-century classics — H.C. Andersen and Søren Kierkegaard — and in the work of contemporary Scandinavian writers such as Jan Roar Leikvoll, Maria Gerhardt, Zulmir Bečević, Thomas Engström and Margit Richert.