Kurt Vonnegut and the American novel : a postmodern iconography / Robert T. Tally Jr |
Autore | Tally Robert T. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; New York, : Continuum, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.54 |
Collana | Continuum literary studies series |
ISBN |
1-4725-4257-6
1-283-27429-9 9786613274298 1-4411-3034-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
A postmodern iconography -- Misanthropic humanism : Player piano and The sirens of Titan -- Anxiety and the jargon of authenticity : Mother night -- The dialectic of American enlightenment : Cat's cradle and God bless you, Mr. Rosewater -- Eternal returns, or, Tralfamadorian ethics : Slaughterhouse five -- Anti-Oedipus of the heartland : Breakfast of champions -- Imaginary communities, or, the ends of the political : Slapstick and Jailbird -- Abstract idealism : Deadeye Dick and Bluebeard -- Apocalypse in the optative mood : Galapagos -- Twilight of the icons : Hocus pocus and Timequake
Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. A Postmodern Iconography -- 2. Misanthropic Humanism: Player Piano and The Sirens of Titan -- 3. Anxiety and the Jargon of Authenticity: Mother Night -- 4. Dialectic of American Enlightenment: Cat's Cradle and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater -- 5. Eternal Returns, or Tralfamadorian Ethics: Slaughterhouse-Five -- 6. Anti-Oedipus of the Heartland: Breakfast of Champions -- 7. Imaginary Communities, or the Ends of the Political: Slapstick and Jailbird -- 8. Abstract Idealism: Deadeye Dick and Bluebeard -- 9. Apocalypse in the Optative Mood: Galápagos -- 10. Twilight of the Icons: Hocus Pocus and Timequake Bibliography -- Index |
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Spatiality / / Robert T. Tally Jr |
Autore | Tally Robert T. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (193 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.9332 |
Collana | The new critical idiom |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - History and criticism
Space perception in literature Geocriticism Place (Philosophy) in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-203-08288-5
1-283-84200-9 1-136-18188-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Spatiality; Copyright Page; Contents; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: You are here; 1 The spatial turn; Historical perspectives; The rise of cartography; Space in modern philosophy; The return of history; Things fall apart; The new spatiality implicit in the postmodern; The spaces of literature; 2 Literary cartography; The writer as mapmaker; Genre and the literary chronotope; Form and the representation of reality; Anxiety and a sense of place; An aesthetic of cognitive mapping; Narrative and social space; 3 Literary geography; The spirit of a place
The country and the cityThe centrality of the periphery; The perambulations of the flâneur; Novel spaces for literary history; Mapping the text; 4 Geocriticism; A poetics of space; The production of space; Spaces of power; The long poem of walking; Engendering spaces; Nomad thought and geophilosophy; A geocentric approach; Conclusion: Other spaces; Glossary; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462694503321 |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Spatiality / / Robert T. Tally Jr |
Autore | Tally Robert T. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (193 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.9332 |
Collana | The new critical idiom |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - History and criticism
Space perception in literature Geocriticism Place (Philosophy) in literature |
ISBN |
1-136-18187-3
0-203-08288-5 1-283-84200-9 1-136-18188-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Spatiality; Copyright Page; Contents; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: You are here; 1 The spatial turn; Historical perspectives; The rise of cartography; Space in modern philosophy; The return of history; Things fall apart; The new spatiality implicit in the postmodern; The spaces of literature; 2 Literary cartography; The writer as mapmaker; Genre and the literary chronotope; Form and the representation of reality; Anxiety and a sense of place; An aesthetic of cognitive mapping; Narrative and social space; 3 Literary geography; The spirit of a place
The country and the cityThe centrality of the periphery; The perambulations of the flâneur; Novel spaces for literary history; Mapping the text; 4 Geocriticism; A poetics of space; The production of space; Spaces of power; The long poem of walking; Engendering spaces; Nomad thought and geophilosophy; A geocentric approach; Conclusion: Other spaces; Glossary; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786304203321 |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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