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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461043403321

Autore

Allen Sharon Lubkemann

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013

New York, New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [date of distribution not identified]

©2013

ISBN

1-5261-0274-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (465 p.)

Collana

Durham Modern Languages Series

Disciplina

809.93321732

Soggetti

Cities and towns in literature

Brazilian fiction - History and criticism

Russian fiction - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 literature and theory.