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Item Details
Title:
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NARRATIVES OF THE EUROPEAN BORDER
A HISTORY OF NOWHERE |
By: |
Richard Robinson |
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Electronic book text |
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£66.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0230287867 |
ISBN 13: |
9780230287860 |
Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
Pub. date: |
23 October, 2007 |
Series: |
Language, Discourse, Society |
Description: |
Richard Robinson examines the representation of shifting European borders in twentieth-century narrative, drawing together an unusual grouping of texts from different national canons and comparing the various ways that fictional settings transmute European placelessness into narrative. |
Synopsis: |
Narratives of the European Border: A History of Nowhere is an extended study of shifting European borders in twentieth-century literature. A work of literary geography, the book negotiates theories of place and space before studying texts - by Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth, Rebecca West, James Joyce and Kazuo Ishiguro - drawn from a variety of national canons. Comparing how interstitial spaces have been transmuted into fictional settings, Richard Robinson argues that 'Nowhere' is a political territory which has assumed an aesthetic form. In Central and Eastern Europe, where empire and nation have frequently been in conflict, the border condition is not anomalous but commonplace: Narratives of the European Border is in part an investigation into the practices of colonial occupation and national self-determination. Although it mainly concentrates on the radical border transformations of the interwar period, the book also considers more recent responses to the Cold War map. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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