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Informationen zum Autor Sharon Lubkemann Allen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Theory at The State University of New York, Brockport Klappentext An innovative, interdisciplinary, incisive scholarly study remapping and redefining domains and dynamics of modernism, EccentriCities: Writing in the margins of modernism critically considers how geo-historically distant and disparate urban sites, concentrating Russian and Luso-Brazilian cultural dialogue and definition, give rise to peculiarly parallel anachronistic and alternative fictional forms. While comparatively reframing these literary traditions through an extensive survey of Russian and Brazilian literature, cartography, urban design and development, foregrounding innovative close readings of works by Gogol, Dostoevsky, Bely, Almeida, Machado de Assis, Lima Barreto, Mário de Andrade, the book also redefines new constellations (eccentric, concentric, ex-centric) for understanding geo-cultural and generic dimensions of modernist and post-modern literature and theory. To come Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Eccentricity and modernity2. Eccentric cities and citytexts: transposition, translation, and transformations of authority and authorship3. Gogol's open prospects: digressive copy clerks4. Dostoevsky's and Machado de Assis's undergrounds: dead men writing5. Hallucinated citiesPostscript: Theory of the novel and the eccentric novel's early play with theory
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Sharon Lubkemann Allen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Theory at The State University of New York, Brockport
