The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives places the suburbs firmly at the center of attention by focusing on those "places that thrive on disregard." By examining the suburbs across continental and cultural differences, this study shows how this liminal space also ushers in, albeit fleetingly, humane urbanity, or urban humanity.
The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives places the suburbs firmly at the center of attention by focusing on those "places that thrive on disregard." By examining the suburbs across continental and cultural differences, this study shows how this liminal space also ushers in, albeit fleetingly, humane urbanity, or urban humanity.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Marie Bouchet is associate professor of American literature and art at the University of Toulouse. Nathalie Cochoy is professor of American literature at the University of Toulouse. Isabelle Keller-Privat is professor of English literature and poetry at the University Toulouse. Mathilde Rogez is senior lecturer at the University of Toulouse.
Inhaltsangabe
Chapter 1"Introduction", M. Bouchet, N. Cochoy, I. Keller-Privat, M. Rogez PART I Challenging the visible Chapter 2"'Who wrote the bit about the buffalo?': Edgelands and the Question of Joint Authorship", Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Roberts (with an introduction by Isabelle Keller-Privat) Chapter 3"The Poetics of the Suburbs in Ian Sinclair's London Orbital", Jean-Michel Ganteau Chapter 4"(Sub)urban Space and the Contemporary American Novel", Heinz Ickstadt Chapter 5"Suburbia According to John Cheever: from Distinction to Indistinction", Véronique Béghain Chapter 6"'The fingerprinting of phantoms': A Poetics of the Commonplace in Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides (1993)", Jérémy Potier PART II Nowhere land? Chapter 7"'Those who prefer the Human Tragedy to the Human Comedy': Humour in London Suburban Fiction", Ged Pope Chapter 8"Suburbia, or Para-urbia: On Some Contemporary British Writers' Representations of Suburban Spaces", Nicolas Pierre Boileau Chapter 9"Intermediate Spaces in Amy Hempel's Short Stories", Claire Fabre-Clark Chapter 10"'She had only to drift tonight'-Drifting as Dissent in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49", Bastien Méresse PART III Gardens of Earthly Delights Chapter 11"Chicago 1900. Between Urban Hell and Paradise Lost: Suburbia vs. City?", Olivier Gaudin Chapter 12 "Who am I to Where is here? Identity and the Liminal Suburb in Canadian Poetry", James Gifford Chapter 13"Subversive Suburbs in Dickens's Fiction: Both Ironic Arcadian Archives and Threatening Mobile Spaces of Relegation", Nathalie Jaëck PART IV From Exclusion to Resistance Chapter 14"From Villa Toscana to Main Reef Road: Two Versions of South African Suburbia", Interview of Ivan Vladislavic, author of Portrait with Keys, by Mathilde Rogez Chapter 15"South African Suburbs in Fiction: Deciphering the Hidden Agenda of Global City-Making and Urban Governance", Richard Samin Chapter 16"Paying the Mortgage in Contemporary Suburban Fiction: From Revolutionary Road to Hoving Road", Stacey Olster Chapter 17"'No poet has come': Paterson, or the Poem in Prosaic Zone", Aurore Clavier
Chapter 1"Introduction", M. Bouchet, N. Cochoy, I. Keller-Privat, M. Rogez PART I Challenging the visible Chapter 2"'Who wrote the bit about the buffalo?': Edgelands and the Question of Joint Authorship", Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Roberts (with an introduction by Isabelle Keller-Privat) Chapter 3"The Poetics of the Suburbs in Ian Sinclair's London Orbital", Jean-Michel Ganteau Chapter 4"(Sub)urban Space and the Contemporary American Novel", Heinz Ickstadt Chapter 5"Suburbia According to John Cheever: from Distinction to Indistinction", Véronique Béghain Chapter 6"'The fingerprinting of phantoms': A Poetics of the Commonplace in Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides (1993)", Jérémy Potier PART II Nowhere land? Chapter 7"'Those who prefer the Human Tragedy to the Human Comedy': Humour in London Suburban Fiction", Ged Pope Chapter 8"Suburbia, or Para-urbia: On Some Contemporary British Writers' Representations of Suburban Spaces", Nicolas Pierre Boileau Chapter 9"Intermediate Spaces in Amy Hempel's Short Stories", Claire Fabre-Clark Chapter 10"'She had only to drift tonight'-Drifting as Dissent in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49", Bastien Méresse PART III Gardens of Earthly Delights Chapter 11"Chicago 1900. Between Urban Hell and Paradise Lost: Suburbia vs. City?", Olivier Gaudin Chapter 12 "Who am I to Where is here? Identity and the Liminal Suburb in Canadian Poetry", James Gifford Chapter 13"Subversive Suburbs in Dickens's Fiction: Both Ironic Arcadian Archives and Threatening Mobile Spaces of Relegation", Nathalie Jaëck PART IV From Exclusion to Resistance Chapter 14"From Villa Toscana to Main Reef Road: Two Versions of South African Suburbia", Interview of Ivan Vladislavic, author of Portrait with Keys, by Mathilde Rogez Chapter 15"South African Suburbs in Fiction: Deciphering the Hidden Agenda of Global City-Making and Urban Governance", Richard Samin Chapter 16"Paying the Mortgage in Contemporary Suburban Fiction: From Revolutionary Road to Hoving Road", Stacey Olster Chapter 17"'No poet has come': Paterson, or the Poem in Prosaic Zone", Aurore Clavier
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