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Nation and region in modern American and European fiction

Title
Nation and region in modern American and European fiction / Thomas O. Beebee.
Author
Beebee, Thomas O.
Publication
West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2008.

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Description
ix, 200 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Comparative cultural studies
Subject
  • Setting (Literature)
  • Space and time in literature
  • National characteristics in literature
  • Fiction > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-192) and index.
Contents
Landscapes of nation in Goethe's Italienische Reise and its counter-narratives -- Diataxes of lostness, Russian imperial geography, and Gogol and Turgenev -- Region and revolution in Benet's Volverás a región and da Cunha's Os Sertões -- Solipsistic regions, Fogo morto, and The sound and the fury -- About roads and rivers and Arguedas's ethnogeographies -- Voces clamantes and the Desert landscapes of Austin, Brossard, and Harjo.
Call Number
JFE 09-2055
ISBN
  • 1557534985 (pbk.)
  • 9781557534989 (pbk.)
LCCN
2008013003
OCLC
213812122
Author
Beebee, Thomas O.
Title
Nation and region in modern American and European fiction / Thomas O. Beebee.
Imprint
West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2008.
Series
Comparative cultural studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-192) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 09-2055
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