The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives places the suburbs firmly at the center of attention by focusing on those "places that thrive on disregard." By examining the suburbs across continental and cultural differences, this study shows how this liminal space also ushers in, albeit fleetingly, humane urbanity, or urban humanity.
The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives places the suburbs firmly at the center of attention by focusing on those "places that thrive on disregard." By examining the suburbs across continental and cultural differences, this study shows how this liminal space also ushers in, albeit fleetingly, humane urbanity, or urban humanity.
Marie Bouchet is associate professor of American literature and art at the University of Toulouse. Nathalie Cochoy is professor of American literature at the University of Toulouse. Isabelle Keller-Privat is professor of English literature and poetry at the University Toulouse. Mathilde Rogez is associate professor of South and Southern African literature and post-colonial studies at the University of Toulouse.
Inhaltsangabe
Chapter 1 "Introduction", M. Bouchet, N. Cochoy, I. Keller-Privat, M. Rogez PART I Challenging the visible Chapter 2 "'Who wrote the bit about the buffalo?': Edgelands and the Question of Joint Authorship", Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Roberts (with an introduction by Isabelle Keller-Privat) Chapter 3 "The Poetics of the Suburbs in Ian Sinclair's London Orbital", Jean-Michel Ganteau Chapter 4 "(Sub)urban Space and the Contemporary American Novel", Heinz Ickstadt Chapter 5 "Suburbia According to John Cheever: from Distinction to Indistinction", Véronique Béghain Chapter 6 "'The fingerprinting of phantoms': A Poetics of the Commonplace in Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides (1993)", Jérémy Potier PART II Nowhere land? Chapter 7 "'Those who prefer the Human Tragedy to the Human Comedy': Humour in London Suburban Fiction", Ged Pope Chapter 8 "Suburbia, or Para-urbia: On Some Contemporary British Writers' Representations of Suburban Spaces", Nicolas Pierre Boileau Chapter 9 "Intermediate Space
Chapter 1 "Introduction", M. Bouchet, N. Cochoy, I. Keller-Privat, M. Rogez PART I Challenging the visible Chapter 2 "'Who wrote the bit about the buffalo?': Edgelands and the Question of Joint Authorship", Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Roberts (with an introduction by Isabelle Keller-Privat) Chapter 3 "The Poetics of the Suburbs in Ian Sinclair's London Orbital", Jean-Michel Ganteau Chapter 4 "(Sub)urban Space and the Contemporary American Novel", Heinz Ickstadt Chapter 5 "Suburbia According to John Cheever: from Distinction to Indistinction", Véronique Béghain Chapter 6 "'The fingerprinting of phantoms': A Poetics of the Commonplace in Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides (1993)", Jérémy Potier PART II Nowhere land? Chapter 7 "'Those who prefer the Human Tragedy to the Human Comedy': Humour in London Suburban Fiction", Ged Pope Chapter 8 "Suburbia, or Para-urbia: On Some Contemporary British Writers' Representations of Suburban Spaces", Nicolas Pierre Boileau Chapter 9 "Intermediate Space
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