Narratives of the European Border

A History of Nowhere
2007
ISBN: 978-1-4039-8720-4
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

Reihe: Language, Discourse, Society

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robinson, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements An Introduction to European Nowheres Place-in-Space/Space-in-Place: Theories of the Border From Border to Front: Italo Svevo's La coscienza di Zeno Recreating Habsburg Borders: The Later Fiction of Joseph Roth 'The earth is what is not us': Yugoslavia in Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon Buckley in a General Russia: Finnegans Wake and Political Space Nowhere, in Particular: Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled and Central Europe Notes References Appendix: maps Index

Über Autor(innen)

RICHARD ROBINSON is Lecturer in English at Swansea University, UK. He specialises in twentieth-century fiction and literary theory, and has published on James Joyce, Italo Svevo and Kazuo Ishiguro.