Transits
Subtitle: the nomadic geographies of Anglo-American modernism
By: [edited by] Giovanni Cianci, Caroline Patey, Sara Sullam.
Contributors: Cianci, Giovanni.; Patey, Caroline.; Sullam, Sara, 1979-
Series: Cultural interactions: studies in the relationship between the arts -- v. 18
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783039119493
Subjects: English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; Geography in literature; Space and time in literature; Travel in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Caroline Patey, Giovanni Cianci and Sara Sullam; title: Prologue: Darwin 's voyage: circumnavigation, world history and the map of mankind / Ian Duncan; title: The imaginative geography of Hardy's The return of the native / J.B. Bullen; title: "A cruel double-magic": modern travel and its complexities in Rudyard Kipling's Egypt of the magicians / Luisa Villa; title: Open space versus closed space: the crisis of domesticity in literary and visual early modernism / Giovanni Cianci; title: Ford Madox Ford and nomadic modernism / Max Saunders; title: Loss, movement, and memory in Djuna Barnes's New York journalism / Daniela Caselli; title: "In all habitable lands and islands explored or unexplored": politics and poetics of space in Joyce's Ulysses / Laura Pelaschiar; title: Berlin transfer: Isherwood's Anglo-German poetics / Sara Sullam; title: The Ulyssean and the Kolossalisch: De Chirico and Joyce in Beckett's Endgame / Giuseppina Restivo; title: "Great avenues of civilisation": the Victoria embankment and Piccadilly Circus underground station in the novels of Virginia Woolf and Chelsea embankment in Howards End / David Bradshaw; title: Channelling words. modernist imagination and the coast of South-East England / Caroline Patey; title: Island distractions: W.H. Auden's ethical topographies / Stan Smith; title: An inner elsewhere: New Orleans's fluid time-space / Mario Maffi; title: The borders of empire: diasporic spaces and the transfrontera in Ruben martinez' the otherside and crossing over / Cinzia Schiavini; title: Epilogue: nomadic geographies, or, the peoples of the world are rapidly being scrambled / Werner Sollors.