Umfang:
1 online resource (xvi, 286 pages)
ISBN:
9783031405488
Serie:
Geocriticism and spatial literary studies
Inhalt:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Train as Embodied Space-Time, with Case Studies of The Lady Vanishes, The Narrow Margin, and Night Train -- 1 The Train and the Railroad in Modernity Studies -- Space-Time in Narrative Studies Before and After the "Spatial Turn" -- The "Narrative Turn" in Space-Oriented Social Sciences -- 2 The Train in the Genre of Mystery -- "The Lady Vanishes" (1938) -- "The Narrow Margin" (1952) -- "Night Train" (Pociąg, 1959) -- 3 The Intent of This Project -- 4 The Structure of This Volume -- Chapter 2: Traveling Alone on the Rails into the Future: Sanshirō, My Most Secret Council, Night Train to Lisbon, and Zone -- 1 Rushing to the Station to Catch a Train -- 2 Timetable's Tightening and Loosening Claws -- 3 Seat Direction/Location -- 4 Interaction with Other Passengers -- 5 Something to Read -- 6 Interaction with the Railroad Staff -- 7 Sleeping in the Carriage -- 8 Station as Intersection of Possible Alternatives -- 9 Different Trains -- Chapter 3: Juncture 1: Wendy and Lucy -- Chapter 4: Best Friends for a While: Fugitives on the Train in "Night of the Milky Way Railway," Night Passage, and The Naked Eye -- 1 No Place to Belong to: Fugitives Ride Trains -- 2 Death by Rail or a Second Life by Rail -- 3 Rushing to the Train Again, and Its Variations -- 4 Sudden Beginning and End -- 5 Different Trains, Again -- 6 All Things That Flow -- 7 Alternative Lives, Adjacent Spaces -- Chapter 5: Juncture 2: Clouds of Sils Maria -- Chapter 6: It's Not "I," It's "You": A Second-Person Protagonist on the Train in La Modification, Blue Journey, and Suspects on the Night Train -- 1 Structure of the Narrative -- 2 Deixis -- 3 Present Tense and Second-Person Narrative -- 4 Immanent Time / Time for Bodies to Experience -- 5 Experienced Space / Embodied Space / Spatial Practices.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783031405471
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sakaki, Atsuko, 1963 - Train travel as embodied space-time in narrative theory [Basingstoke] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 ISBN 9783031405471
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen
