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Literature and place 1800-2000
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ISBN: 9783039115709 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford Bern Berlin : Peter Lang,

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Ten original essays examine the transactions between real places and the literary imagination, including the reinvention of real places in literary form, from 1800 to the present day. They deal with different kinds of locations (islands, countries, cities), the topoi writers use to articulate a sense of place (maps, ruins, landscape, history), their generic manifestations in fiction, travel writing, topography, (auto)biography and poetry, and the theoretical and methodological issues which arise. The focus moves outwards from local to regional and national issues, covering questions of cultural identity, space, representation, historicity, and modernity in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, the United States, and the South Pacific. The contributors are drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, and include established scholars as well as newer voices.

Staging place : the geography of modern drama
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ISBN: 0472065890 Year: 1997 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,

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Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama reimagines the content and continuities of theater history and exposes underlying dialogues between "home and homelessness, belonging and exile"--a century-long struggle with the meaning and power of place, which the author terms "geopathology." By reading canonical works in conjunction with contemporary ones, Chaudhuri charts the evolution of a dramatic paradigm with profound theatrical and thematic implications. Chaudhuri starts with a discussion of a "poetics of exile" in early modern drama, where the figure of home is constructed as a locus of two conflicting impulses: the desire to find a stable site for individual identity and the desire to deterritorialize the self. By mid-century, she argues, a new discourse of "failed homecoming" begins to displace this geopathic model and replace the poetics of exile with a grim anti-poetics of immigration. She then employs postmodern and postcolonial theories of place and culture to define the emerging multiculturalism as a creative reworking of the figures of home, homecoming, homelessness, immigration and exile.


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Le lointain : Écrire au loin. Écrire le lointain : 10e colloque de l'APLAQA [tenu à Saint-Jean, Terre-Neuve, les 20 et 21 octobre 2000]
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ISBN: 2921912422 Year: 2002 Publisher: Beauport : MNH,

The Elemental passion for place in the ontopoiesis of life : passions of the soul in the Imaginatio creatrix
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ISBN: 0792327497 9048143764 9401732981 9780792327493 Year: 1994 Volume: 44 Publisher: Dordrecht ; Boston ; London Kluwer Academic Publishers

After utopia : the rise of critical space in twentieth-century American fiction
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ISBN: 0803243014 9780803243019 Year: 2006 Publisher: Lincoln ; London University of Nebraska Press


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Beowulf and Lejre
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ISBN: 9780866983686 9782503527345 0866983686 2503527345 Year: 2007 Volume: 22 323 Publisher: Turnhout Tempe, AZ Brepols Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

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Tradition places the main action of this Old English poem at Lejre, Zealand (Denmark), and excavations there 1986-88 and 2004-05 have revealed a succession of great halls dated from the middle sixth to the late tenth centuries, and very similar to the one described in eight-century poem. Archaeologists, historians, and literary scholars consider the implications.


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Du récit au récit médiatique
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ISSN: 20308906 ISBN: 9782804155797 280415579X Year: 2008 Publisher: Bruxelles : De Boeck,

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Spécialiste des médias, l'auteur invite à une découverte critique des principaux outils narratologiques, l'appliquant principalement aux médias de masse : presse écrite, télévision et Internet.

The poetics of space
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ISBN: 9780807064733 0807064734 9780143107521 Year: 1994 Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press,

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Published in English in the 1960s, this text focuses on how we experience intimate places, and how our perceptions of houses and other shelters shape our thoughts, memories and dreams.

After Eden : the secularization of American space in the fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser
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ISBN: 0838751687 Year: 1990 Publisher: Lewisburg [Pa.] London Bucknell University Press Associated University Presses

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