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An innovative, interdisciplinary, incisive scholarly study remapping and redefining domains and dynamics of modernism, EccentriCities: Writing in the Margins of Modernism critically considers how geo-historically distant and disparate urban sites, concentrating Russian and Luso-Brazilian cultural dialogue and definition, give rise to peculiarly parallel anachronistic and alternative fictional forms. While comparatively reframing these literary traditions through an extensive survey of Russian and Brazilian literature, cartography, urban design and development, foregrounding innovative close readings of works by Gogol, Dostoevsky, Bely, Almeida, Machado de Assis, Lima Barreto, Mário de Andrade, the book also redefines new constellations (eccentric, concentric, ex-centric) for understanding geo-cultural and generic dimensions of modernist and post-modern literature and theory.
EccentriCities: Writing in the Margins of Modernism St. Petersburg to Rio de Janeiro
by Lubkemann Allen, SharonFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2013-11-30
Publisher(s): MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Summary
Author Biography
Sharon Lubkemann Allen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Theory at The State University of New York, Brockport, USA.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I: ECCENTRICITY AND MODERNITY
1. Urban Contexts, Urbane Consciousness and the Eccentric Slant of Modernisms
2. Retracing Urban/e Dimensions of the Modernist Novel
3. Reframing Modernist Reflection: Fractured Mirrors, Refractory Narrators
4. Re-mapping Modernism: Eccentric vs. Concentric Design and Dynamics
5. Reconfiguring the Modernist Sentence: Concentric Memory, Eccentric Madness, and Polyphony in the Novel
6. Eccentric Cities and Citytexts: Transposition, Translation, and Transformations of Authority and Authorship
7. Eccentric Domains: St. Petersburg and Rio de Janeiro
8. Form: Schizophrenic Designs
9. Foundations: Displaced Capitals
10. Eccentric Dynamics in Russian and Brazilian Literature: Displacement, Digression, Dialogue, Dissembling, and Dissent
PART II: ECCENTRIC NARRATIVE CONSCIOUSNESS
11. Gogol's Open Prospects: Digressive Copy Clerks
12. 'Parallel lines that do meet when the necessary ripple is there': Texts, Cultural Contexts, Criticism
13. Logos: Travestying Peter
14. Cosmos: Transcribing and Transforming the Petersburg Text
15. Reading between the Lines: Authority in 'The Overcoat' (Dialogues between Author, Hero, and Narrator)
16. Intertextual Lines: Crossings on 'Nevsky Prospekt' (Intertextual Dialogues)
17. Realignments: Critique and Creativity in 'Notes of a Madman' (Contradiction and Dialogue)
18. Dostoevsky's and Machado de Assis's Undergrounds: Dead Men Writing
19. Towards a Theory of Underground Laughter: Carnival, Degeneracy, Degeneration, and Generation
20. Generation/s of Eccentrics: Formation of an Underground Aesthetics in Marginocentric Capitals (Subtexts, Contexts, Pretexts, Early Texts, and Resonances of Underground Consciousness)
21. Generation in the Underground Text: Notes from Underground and The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
22. Romancing the Reader
23. Refractory and Refractive Rambling in the City
24. Gambling on Drunken Discourse, Winning an Afterlife
PART III: AN ENCOMPASSING ECCENTRIC LINE
25. Hallucinated Cities
26. Evolving Eccentricities: Revolutionary Russian Modernisms and Brazilian 'Modernismo'
27. Eccentricity in the Ex-centric City and in Exile: a Glimpse at Russian, Luso-Brazilian, and Transnational Post-modernisms
Postscript: Theory of the Novel and the Eccentric Novel's Early Play with Theory
Notes
Bibliography
PART I: ECCENTRICITY AND MODERNITY
1. Urban Contexts, Urbane Consciousness and the Eccentric Slant of Modernisms
2. Retracing Urban/e Dimensions of the Modernist Novel
3. Reframing Modernist Reflection: Fractured Mirrors, Refractory Narrators
4. Re-mapping Modernism: Eccentric vs. Concentric Design and Dynamics
5. Reconfiguring the Modernist Sentence: Concentric Memory, Eccentric Madness, and Polyphony in the Novel
6. Eccentric Cities and Citytexts: Transposition, Translation, and Transformations of Authority and Authorship
7. Eccentric Domains: St. Petersburg and Rio de Janeiro
8. Form: Schizophrenic Designs
9. Foundations: Displaced Capitals
10. Eccentric Dynamics in Russian and Brazilian Literature: Displacement, Digression, Dialogue, Dissembling, and Dissent
PART II: ECCENTRIC NARRATIVE CONSCIOUSNESS
11. Gogol's Open Prospects: Digressive Copy Clerks
12. 'Parallel lines that do meet when the necessary ripple is there': Texts, Cultural Contexts, Criticism
13. Logos: Travestying Peter
14. Cosmos: Transcribing and Transforming the Petersburg Text
15. Reading between the Lines: Authority in 'The Overcoat' (Dialogues between Author, Hero, and Narrator)
16. Intertextual Lines: Crossings on 'Nevsky Prospekt' (Intertextual Dialogues)
17. Realignments: Critique and Creativity in 'Notes of a Madman' (Contradiction and Dialogue)
18. Dostoevsky's and Machado de Assis's Undergrounds: Dead Men Writing
19. Towards a Theory of Underground Laughter: Carnival, Degeneracy, Degeneration, and Generation
20. Generation/s of Eccentrics: Formation of an Underground Aesthetics in Marginocentric Capitals (Subtexts, Contexts, Pretexts, Early Texts, and Resonances of Underground Consciousness)
21. Generation in the Underground Text: Notes from Underground and The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
22. Romancing the Reader
23. Refractory and Refractive Rambling in the City
24. Gambling on Drunken Discourse, Winning an Afterlife
PART III: AN ENCOMPASSING ECCENTRIC LINE
25. Hallucinated Cities
26. Evolving Eccentricities: Revolutionary Russian Modernisms and Brazilian 'Modernismo'
27. Eccentricity in the Ex-centric City and in Exile: a Glimpse at Russian, Luso-Brazilian, and Transnational Post-modernisms
Postscript: Theory of the Novel and the Eccentric Novel's Early Play with Theory
Notes
Bibliography
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