Narratives of the European border
Subtitle: a history of nowhere
By: Richard Robinson
Series: Language, discourse, society
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillian
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781403987204
Subjects: European fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Setting (Literature)
Notes: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--University of East Anglia 2003) under the title Border space : Central and Eastern Europe in the writings of Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth, Rebecca West and James Joyce 

Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-190) and index
Table of contents: title: An introduction to European nowheres; title: Place-in-space / Space-in-Place : theories of the border; title: From border to front : Italo Svevo's La coscienza di zeno; title: Recreating Habsburg borders : the later fiction ofJoseph Roth; title: The earth is what is not us : Yugoslavia in Rebecca West's Black lamb and grey falcon; title: Buckley in a general Russia : Finnegans wake and political space; title: Nowhere, in particular : Kazuo Ishiguro's The unconsoled and central Europe