UID:
kobvindex_INT0005318
Format:
1 electronic resource (241 pages).
ISBN:
9781950192199
,
1950192199
,
9781950192205
,
1950192202
Content:
MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "On the unstable boundaries between 'interior' and 'exterior,' 'private' and 'public,' and always in some way relating to a 'beyond,' the imagery of interior space in literature reveals itself as an often disruptive code of subjectivity and of modernity. The wide variety of interior spaces elicited in literature - from the odd room over the womb, secluded parks, and train compartments, to the city as a world under a cloth - reveal a common defining feature: these interiors can all be analyzed as codes of a paradoxical, both assertive and fragile, subjectivity in its own unique time and history. They function as subtexts that define subjectivity, time, and history as profoundly ambiguous realities, on interchangeable existential, socio-political, and epistemological levels. This volume addresses the imagery of interior spaces in a number of iconic and also lesser known yet significant authors of European, North American, and Latin American literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries: Djuna Barnes, Edmond de Goncourt, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Benito Pérez Galdós, Elsa Morante, Robert Musil, Jules Romains, Peter Waterhouse, and Émile Zola."
Language:
English
Keywords:
Edited volumes
;
Case studies
DOI:
10.21983/P3.0248.1.00
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