Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place

Informationen zum Autor Eric Prieto is an associate professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The author of Listening In: Music, Mind, and the Modernist Narrative, he has published widely on literary representations of place and on the relations between music and literature. Klappentext Using contemporary literary representations of place, this study focuses on works that have participated in the emergence of new conceptions of place and new place-based identities. The analyses draw on research in cultural geography, cognitive science, urban sociology, and globalization studies. Zusammenfassung Using contemporary literary representations of place! this study focuses on works that have participated in the emergence of new conceptions of place and new place-based identities. The analyses draw on research in cultural geography! cognitive science! urban sociology! and globalization studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Phenomenological Place Place, Subjectivity, and the Humanist Tradition Samuel Beckett and the Postmodern Loss of Place The Social Production of Place Poststructuralism and the Resistance to Place Beur Fiction and the Banlieue Crisis Postcolonial Place Place After Postcolonial Studies Evolution in/of the Caribbean Landscape Narrative Landscape, Map, and Vertical Integration

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Phenomenological Place Place, Subjectivity, and the Humanist Tradition Samuel Beckett and the Postmodern Loss of Place The Social Production of Place Poststructuralism and the Resistance to Place Beur Fiction and the Banlieue Crisis Postcolonial Place Place After Postcolonial Studies Evolution in/of the Caribbean Landscape Narrative Landscape, Map, and Vertical Integration

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• Authors: E Prieto, E. Prieto, Eric Prieto, PRIETO ERIC
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.12.2012
• EAN: 9781137031112
• ISBN: 978-1-137-03111-2
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, World Literature, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Postcolonial/World Literature, America—Literatures, North American Literature