1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457025503321

Autore

Cixous Hélène <1937->

Titolo

Manhattan [[electronic resource] ] : letters from prehistory / / Hélène Cixous ; translated by Beverley Bie Brahic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8232-5989-7

1-282-69853-2

9786612698538

0-8232-3790-7

0-8232-1762-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BrahicBeverley Bie

Disciplina

848/.91409

Soggetti

Authors, French - 20th century

Authors, French - 21st century

Electronic books.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published in French as Manhattan: lettres de la prehistorie c2002 Editions Galilee"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Certes a sacrifice -- The eye-patch -- A yellow folder -- I will not write this book -- The evidence -- I loved above all literature -- The Necropolis -- More and more notebooks -- I am naked -- The charm of the malady -- Folly USA -- Done is done -- Room 91 -- The vroom vroom period -- Elpenor's dream -- After the end.

Sommario/riassunto

Manhattan is the tale of a young French scholar who travels to the United States in 1965 on a Fulbright Fellowship to consult the manuscripts of beloved authors. In Yale University?s Beinecke Library, tantalized by the conversational and epistolary brilliance of a fellow researcher, she is lured into a picaresque and tragic adventure. Meanwhile, back in France, her children and no-nonsense mother await her return. A young European intellectual?s first contact with America and the city of New York are the background of this story. The experience of Manhattan haunts this labyrinth of a book as, over a period of thirty-five years, its narrator visits and revisits Central Park



and a half-buried squirrel, the Statue of Liberty and a never again to be found hotel in the vicinity of Morningside Heights: a journey into memory in which everything is never the same.Traveling from library to library, France to the United States, Shakespeare to Kafka to Joyce, Manhattan deploys with gusto all the techniques for which Cixous?s fiction and essays are known: rapid juxtapositions of time and place, narrative and description, analysis and philosophical reflection. It investigates subjects Cixous has spent her life probing: reading, writing, and the ?omnipotence-other? seductions of literature; a family?s flight from NaziGermany and postcolonial Algeria; childhood, motherhood, and, not least, the strange experience of falling in love with, as Jacques Derrida writes, ?a counterfeit genius.?.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786918903321

Autore

Marsh Nicky

Titolo

Money, speculation and finance in contemporary British fiction / / Nicky Marsh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

1-4411-5384-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (171 p.)

Collana

Continuum literary studies series

Disciplina

823/.914093553

Soggetti

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Money in literature

Finance in literature

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 (pages 147-158) and index.

Nota di contenuto

'Kiss, kiss, bang, bang' : money and the thriller -- Sound money : Thatcher, gender and the state -- Bang, boom, bust : the fortune of the city -- Rogue traders : popular fiction and the professional -- Women, work and risk.

Sommario/riassunto

Fiction has become increasingly concerned with the political and imaginative significance of finance, speculation and the money markets



- from Ian Fleming''s Goldfinger to Jonathan Coe''s What a Carve Up and Martin Amis'' Money. This book argues that recent British fiction demystifies the ''weightless'' economy of contemporary money and critiques the popular sense of money as being everywhere but nowhere. The monograph provides a comprehensive survey of a large body of fictional texts that have striven to represent and understand the formative significance of finance capital on contemporary cu

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Record Nr.

UNISA996211122003316

Titolo

Cuadernos de geología ibérica / / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto de Geología Económica [y] Departamento de Estratigrafía, Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad de Madrid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madrid, : Instituto de Geología Económica, 1970-2003

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

554

Soggetti

Geology - Spain

Geology

Aardwetenschappen

Periodicals.

Spain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Some issues have also distinctive titles.

Published: Madrid : Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad Complutense, <2000->