EccentriCities : writing in the margins of modernism : St. Petersburg to Rio de Janeiro /

This book critically considers how geo-historically distant and disparate urban sites give rise to peculiarly parallel polyphonic fictional forms. It redefines new constellations (eccentric, concentric, ex-centric) for understanding geo-cultural and generic dimensions of modernist and post-modern li...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Allen, Sharon Lubkemann, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2013.
Series:Durham modern languages series.
Subjects:
Cities and towns in literature.
Brazilian fiction > History and criticism.
Russian fiction > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)
Postmodernism (Literature)
Roman brésilien > Histoire et critique.
Roman russe > Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Littérature)
Postmodernisme (Littérature)
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Brazilian fiction
Cities and towns in literature
Russian fiction
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • EccentriCities: Writing in the margins of Modernism: St. Petersburg to Rio de Janeiro; Half Title Page ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Figures ; Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; Introduction ; Part I: Eccentricity and modernity; Chapter 1: Urban contexts, urbane consciousness and the eccentric slant of modernisms; Chapter 2: Eccentric cities and citytexts: transpositions, translations and transformations of authority and authorship; Part II: Eccentric narrative consciousness
  • Chapter 3: Gogol's open prospects: digressive copy clerksChapter 4: Dostoevsky's and Machado de Assis's unending undergrounds: dead men writing; Part III: An encompassing eccentric line; Chapter 5: Hallucinated cities; Postscript: theory of the novel and the eccentric novel's early play with theory ; Bibliography ; Index

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