The elsewhere : on belonging at a near distance : reading literary memoir from Europe and the Levant /

"The Elsewhere." Or, midbar-biblical Hebrew for both "wilderness" and "speech." A place of possession and dispossession, loss and nostalgia. But also a place that speaks. Ingeniously using a Talmudic interpretive formula about the disposition of boundaries, Newton explo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Newton, Adam Zachary
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2005.
Temas:
1900-1999
European literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Setting (Literature)
Travel in literature.
Littérature européenne > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Espace et temps (Littérature)
Voyage dans la littérature.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
European literature.
Literatur
Reise > Motiv
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Sta Viator
  • 1. Place from place, and place from flight : W.G. Sebald's The emigrants and Aharon Appelfeld's The iron tracks
  • 2. Flight from flight, and flight from border : Witold Gombrowicz's Diary and A kind of testament and essays and short fiction by Bruno Schulz
  • 3. Border from border : Elias Canetti's The tongue set free and The voices of Marrakesh and Gregor von Rezzori's The snows of yesteryear
  • 4. Border from beyond : Andre Aciman's Out of Egypt and Edward Said's Out of place
  • 5. Beyond from beyond : Dan Pagis's Abba and Anton Shammas's Arabesques.

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