03207nam 2200577 450 991046104340332120200520144314.01-5261-0274-9(CKB)3710000000529318(EBL)4706751(MiAaPQ)EBC4706751(Au-PeEL)EBL4706751(CaPaEBR)ebr11275040(OCoLC)960165942(EXLCZ)99371000000052931820161013h20132013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierEccentriCities writing in the margins of modernism : St. Petersburg to Rio de Janeiro /Sharon Lubkemann AllenManchester, England ;New York, New York :Manchester University Press,2013.New York, New York :Palgrave Macmillan,[date of distribution not identified]©20131 online resource (465 p.)Durham Modern Languages SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-5261-0275-7 0-7190-8770-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 consciousnessChapter 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 ; IndexThis 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.Durham modern languages series.Cities and towns in literatureBrazilian fictionHistory and criticismRussian fictionHistory and criticismElectronic books.Cities and towns in literature.Brazilian fictionHistory and criticism.Russian fictionHistory and criticism.809.93321732Allen Sharon Lubkemann975476MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461043403321EccentriCities2221235UNINA