Research Catalog

Title

Spatial modernities : geography, narrative, imaginaries / edited by Johannes Riquet and Elizabeth Kollmann.

Publication

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Additional Authors

• Riquet, Johannes.
• Kollmann, Elizabeth.

Description

xvi, 232 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 93

Uniform Title

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 93.

Subject

• Place (Philosophy) in literature
• Space in literature
• Geocriticism
• Place (Philosophy) in motion pictures
• Place (Philosophy) in art
• Geographical perception in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Framing the debate: spatial modernitites, travelling narratives / Johannes Riquet -- Part 1. Mapping modernity -- In the suburbs of amaurotum: fantasy, utopia and literary cartography / Robert T. Tally Jr.-- Mapping Utopia / Christina Ljungberg -- Of the novelty of bird's-eye views in eighteenth-century travelling narratives / Jean-Paul Forster -- Satellite vision and geographical imagination / David Shim -- Part II. Island spaces -- Crossing the sand: the arrival on the desert island / Barney Samson -- Two centuries of spacial 'island' assumptions: The Swiss Family Robinson and the Robinson Crusoe legacy / Britta Hartmann -- Island stills and island movements: un/freezing the island in 1920s and 1930s Hollywood cinema / Johannes Riquet -- Part III. Shorelines/borderlines -- Words and images of flight: representations of the seashore in the texts about the overseas flight of Estonians during the autumn of 1944 / Maarja Ojamaa -- The literary channel: identity and liminal space in island fictions / Ina Habermann -- Part IV. Modernity on the move -- Montaigne: travel and travail / Tom Conley -- The expanding space of the train carriage: a phenomenological reading of Michel Butor's La Modification / Caroline Rabourdin -- Part V. Late modernity and the spatialized self -- The reader, the writer, the text: traversing spaces in Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes / Elizabeth Kollmann -- Narrative, space and autobiographical film in the digital age: an analysis of The Beaches of Agnès (2008) / Deirdre Russell.

Call Number

JFE 18-7289

ISBN

• 1138304557
• 9781138304550

OCLC

1023091527

Title

Spatial modernities : geography, narrative, imaginaries / edited by Johannes Riquet and Elizabeth Kollmann.

Publisher

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 93

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 93.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Riquet, Johannes.

Kollmann, Elizabeth.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-7289