EccentriCities : St. Petersburg to Rio de Janeiro.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781526102744
- 869.3409112
- PN56.C55.A454 2013
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 clerks -- Chapter 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.
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.
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