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Author : Elsa Court
Release : 2016
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Book Synopsis Émigré Representations of the American Roadside in Postwar Literature, Film and Photography by : Elsa Court
Download or read book Émigré Representations of the American Roadside in Postwar Literature, Film and Photography written by Elsa Court. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. M. A. Court
Release : 2016
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Book Synopsis Émigré Representations of the American Roadside in Postwar Literature, Film and Photography by : E. M. A. Court
Download or read book Émigré Representations of the American Roadside in Postwar Literature, Film and Photography written by E. M. A. Court. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elsa Court
Release : 2020-01-06
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The American Roadside in Émigré Literature, Film, and Photography by : Elsa Court
Download or read book The American Roadside in Émigré Literature, Film, and Photography written by Elsa Court. This book was released on 2020-01-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Roadside in Émigré Literature, Film, and Photography: 1955–1985 traces the origin of a postmodern iconography of mobile consumption equating roadside America with an authentic experience of the United States through the postwar road narrative, a narrative which, Elsa Court argues, has been shaped by and through white male émigré narratives of the American road, in both literature and visual culture. While stressing that these narratives are limited in their understanding of the processes of exclusion and unequal flux in experiences of modern automobility, the book works through four case studies in the American works of European-born authors Vladimir Nabokov, Robert Frank, Alfred Hitchcock, and Wim Wenders to unveil an early phenomenology of the postwar American highway, one that anticipates the works of late-twentieth-century spatial theorists Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, and Marc Augé and sketches a postmodern aesthetic of western mobility and consumption that has become synonymous with contemporary America.
Author : Marian Aguiar
Release : 2019-09-25
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Mobilities, Literature, Culture by : Marian Aguiar
Download or read book Mobilities, Literature, Culture written by Marian Aguiar. This book was released on 2019-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book dedicated to literary and cultural scholars’ engagement with mobilities scholarship. As such, the volume both advances new theoretical approaches to the study of culture and furthers the recent “humanities turn” in mobilities studies. The book’s scholarship is deeply informed by cultural geography’s vision of a mobilised reconceptualisation of space and place, but also by the contribution of literary scholars in articulating questions of travel, technologies of transport, (post)colonialism and migration through a close engagement with textual materials. A comprehensive introduction maps pre-histories and emerging directions of this exciting interdisciplinary endeavor while taking up the theoretical and methodological challenges of the burgeoning subfield. Contributions range across geographical and disciplinary boundaries to address questions of embodied subjectivities, mobility and the nation, geopolitics of migration, and mobilities futures.
Author : Robert Roper
Release : 2015-06-09
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Nabokov in America by : Robert Roper
Download or read book Nabokov in America written by Robert Roper. This book was released on 2015-06-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique portrait of Vladimir Nabokov told through the lens of the years he spent in a land that enchanted him, America. The author of the immortal Lolita and Pale Fire, born to an eminent Russian family, conjures the apotheosis of the high modernist artist: cultured, refined-as European as they come. But Vladimir Nabokov, who came to America fleeing the Nazis, came to think of his time here as the richest of his life. Indeed, Nabokov was not only happiest here, but his best work flowed from his response to this exotic land. Robert Roper fills out this period in the writer's life with charm and insight- covering Nabokov's critical friendship with Edmund Wilson, his time at Cornell, his role at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. But Nabokov in America finds its narrative heart in his serial sojourns into the wilds of the West, undertaken with his wife, Vera, and their son over more than a decade. Nabokov covered more than 200,000 miles as he indulged his other passion: butterfly collecting. Roper has mined fresh sources to bring detail to these journeys, and traces their significant influence in Nabokov's work: on two-lane highways and in late-'40s motels and cafés, we feel Lolita draw near, and understand Nabokov's seductive familiarity with the American mundane. Nabokov in America is also a love letter to U.S. literature, in Nabokov's broad embrace of it from Melville to the Beats. Reading Roper, we feel anew the mountain breezes and the miles logged, the rich learning and the Romantic mind behind some of Nabokov's most beloved books.
