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Narratives of the European Border: History of Nowhere (Language, Discourse, Society)
Richard Robinson
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Description for Narratives of the European Border: History of Nowhere (Language, Discourse, Society)
Hardcover. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 206 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; DSBH; JFC; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 390.
Richard Robinson examines the representation of shifting European borders in twentieth-century narrative, drawing together an unusual grouping of texts from different national canons and comparing the various ways that fictional settings transmute European placelessness into narrative.
Richard Robinson examines the representation of shifting European borders in twentieth-century narrative, drawing together an unusual grouping of texts from different national canons and comparing the various ways that fictional settings transmute European placelessness into narrative.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Language, Discourse, Society
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403987204
SKU
V9781403987204
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99-15
About Richard Robinson
RICHARD ROBINSON is Lecturer in English at Swansea University, UK. He specialises in twentieth-century fiction and literary theory, and has published on James Joyce, Italo Svevo and Kazuo Ishiguro.
Reviews for Narratives of the European Border: History of Nowhere (Language, Discourse, Society)
'Richard Robinson's study of shifting European borders in twentieth-century literature offers a refreshingly new take on how fictional texts negotiate and transmute imaginatively a sense of locality - of geographical and temporal emplacement...This study is important for all those who read books not merely to confirm their theoretical models of preference, but also to delve into fiction's own signifying borderzones.' ... Read more