Riikka Rossi

List of John Benjamins publications in which Riikka Rossi is involved.

Article

Rossi, Riikka 2022 The poetics of disgust in realist fiction: Émile Zola and Sofi Oksanen Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives, Larsen, Svend Erik, Steen Bille Jørgensen and Margaret R. Higonnet (eds.), pp. 169–183 | Article

Nineteenth-century naturalist literature received adverse publicity as ‘literature of disgust,’ inciting moral indignation and accusations of indecency in reading audiences. Depictions of lower classes, primitive instincts and sexuality, sickness, ugliness and degeneration were considered vulgar… read more