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Georges Perec's geographies : material, performative and textual spaces /

Georges Perec, novelist, filmmaker and essayist, was one of the most inventive and original writers of the twentieth century. A fascinating aspect of his work is its intrinsically geographical nature. With major projects on space and place, Perec's writing speaks to a variety of geographical, u...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Forsdick, Charles (Editor ), Leak, Andrew N., 1956- (Editor ), Phillips, Richard, 1965- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : UCL Press, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Georges Perec's geographies; Perecquian geographies; Part I: Perec's geographies; 2. The mapping of loss; 3. 'Entre Frence et Engleterre': Toponyms and the poetics of reference in Perec's fiction; 4. Vanishing points: Shifting perspectives on The Man Who Sleeps / Un homme qui dort; 5. Species of Spaces and the politics of scale: Perec, Gaullism and geography after Lefebvre; 6. Accumulation versus dispersion: Perec and 'his' diaspora
  • 7. Islands, camps, zones: Towards a nissological reading of Perec8. Textual, audio and physical space: Adapting Perec's radio plays for theatre; Part II: Perecquian geographies; 9. Perecquian soundscapes; 10. Perecquian spaces for performance practice; 11. Embodiment and everyday space: Dancing with Georges Perec; 12. Seeing more flatly: The Regional Book; 13. Endotic Englishness: Meades, Perec and the everyday curiosities of place; 14. Perecquian fieldwork: Photography and the fairground; 15. 'Force yourself to see more flatly': A photographic investigation of the infra-ordinary