Name: Eccentricities: Writing in the Margins of Modernism: St. Petersburg to rio de Janeiro (Durham Modern Languages Series)
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Author: Sharon Lubkemann Allen
ISBN: 9780719087707

portada Eccentricities: Writing in the Margins of Modernism: St. Petersburg to rio de Janeiro (Durham Modern Languages Series)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Author

Sharon Lubkemann Allen

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780719087707

Synopsis "Eccentricities: Writing in the Margins of Modernism: St. Petersburg to rio de Janeiro (Durham Modern Languages Series)"

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.