Peter Brooker / Andrew Thacker (eds.)

Geographies of Modernism

Herausgeber: Brooker, Peter; Thacker, Andrew

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With groundbreaking essays from an international team of highly-regarded scholars, "Geographies of Modernism" is an important step forward in literary and cultural studies.

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This volume explores the interface between modernism and geography in a range of writers, texts and artists across the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780415331159
• ISBN-10: 0415331153
• Artikelnr.: 22401176

Autorenporträt

Andrew Thacker, Peter Brooker

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: locating the modern
1 Geographies of modernism in a globalizing world
2 Russia and the invention of the modernist intelligentsia
3 'Mad after foreign notions': Ezra Pound
Imagism and the geography of the Orient
4 Modernism
Africa and the myth of continents
5 Spatial stories: Joseph Conrad and James Joyce
6 The interior: Benjaminian arcades
Conradian passages
and the 'impasse' of Jean Rhys
7 'A Savage from the Cannibal islands': Jean Rhys and London
8 Voyages by teashop: an urban geography of modernism
9 The case of Marcel Duchamp: the artist as traveller and geographer
10 'A sense
through the eyes
of embracing possession' (Henry James): Bird's-eye views of New York City
1880s-1930s
11 Memory
geography
identity: African writing and modernity
12 'Architecture or revolution'? Le Corbusier and Wyndham Lewis
13 Rem Koolhaas: from Manhattan to the city of exacerbated difference
14 Flannery
References
Index