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Literature, geography, and the postmodern poetics of place

Title
Literature, geography, and the postmodern poetics of place / Eric Prieto.
Author
Prieto, Eric, 1966-
Publication
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Description
235 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
  • "Eric Prieto is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Listening In: Music, Mind, and the Modernist Narrative, and numerous essays on music-and-literature, literary spatiality, Caribbean literature, and literary theory"--
  • "This book opens up an understudied area within the field of literary spatiality: the question of geographical emergence. A study of contemporary literary representations of place, it draws on phenomenological, poststructural, and postcolonial theories of space and place to show how literature contributes to the formation of new geographical identities. With chapters devoted to the in-between spaces of Samuel Beckett, France's suburban ghettoes, and the postcolonial proto-nations of France's Caribbean territories, this study emphasizes literature's ability to subtly but decisively shape readers' attitudes toward the world around them, making it possible to see such places not as defective or derivative versions of established modes of dwelling but as laboratories for the ways of life of tomorrow"--
Subject
  • Place (Philosophy) in literature
  • Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Literature, Modern > 21st century > History and criticism
  • Liminality in literature
  • Postmodernism (Literature)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
JFD 13-2185
ISBN
  • 9781137031112 (hardback)
  • 1137031115 (hardback)
LCCN
  • 2012031254
  • 40021844626
OCLC
798615484
Author
Prieto, Eric, 1966-
Title
Literature, geography, and the postmodern poetics of place / Eric Prieto.
Imprint
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Edition
First edition: January 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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40021844626
Research Call Number
JFD 13-2185
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