|
Showing 1 - 4 of
4 matches in All Departments
|
Hotel Modernisms (Hardcover)
Anna Despotopoulou, Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Efterpi Mitsi
|
R3,830
Discovery Miles 38 300
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
This collection of essays explores the hotel as a site of
modernity, a space of mobility and transience that shaped the
transnational and transcultural modernist activity of the first
half of the twentieth century. As a trope for social and cultural
mobility, transitory and precarious modes of living, and
experiences of personal and political transformation, the hotel
space in modernist writing complicates binaries such as public and
private, risk and rootedness, and convention and experimentation.
It is also a prime location for modernist production and the
cross-fertilization of heterogeneous, inter- and trans- literary,
cultural, national, and affective modes. The study of the hotel in
the work of authors such as E. M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield, Kay
Boyle, and Joseph Roth reveals the ways in which the hotel nuances
the notions of mobilities, networks, and communities in terms of
gender, nation, and class. Whereas Mary Butts, Djuna Barnes, Anais
Nin, and Denton Welch negotiate affective and bodily states which
arise from the alienation experienced at liminal hotel spaces and
which lead to new poetics of space, Vicki Baum, Georg Lukacs, James
Joyce, and Elizabeth Bishop explore the socio-political and
cultural conflicts which are manifested in and by the hotel. This
volume invites us to think of "hotel modernisms" as situated in or
enabled by this dynamic space. Including chapters which traverse
the boundaries of nation and class, it regards the hotel as the
transcultural space of modernity par excellence.
This book focuses on literal and metaphorical ruins, as they are
appropriated and imagined in different forms of writing. Examining
British and American literature and culture in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, the book begins in the era of industrial
modernity with studies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Henry
James and Daphne Du Maurier. It then moves on to the significance
of ruins in the twentieth century, against the backdrop of
conflict, waste and destruction, analyzing authors such as Beckett
and Pinter, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton and Leonard
Cohen. The collection concludes with current debates on ruins,
through discussions of Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht, as well
as reflections on the refugee crisis that take the ruin beyond the
text, offering new perspectives on its diverse legacies and
conceptual resources.
This book focuses on literal and metaphorical ruins, as they are
appropriated and imagined in different forms of writing. Examining
British and American literature and culture in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, the book begins in the era of industrial
modernity with studies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Henry
James and Daphne Du Maurier. It then moves on to the significance
of ruins in the twentieth century, against the backdrop of
conflict, waste and destruction, analyzing authors such as Beckett
and Pinter, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton and Leonard
Cohen. The collection concludes with current debates on ruins,
through discussions of Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht, as well
as reflections on the refugee crisis that take the ruin beyond the
text, offering new perspectives on its diverse legacies and
conceptual resources.
This book examines cultural representations of women's experience
of the railway in the nineteenth century. Examining the
representation of women in the spaces of the railway in literature
and culture of the 19th and early 20th century, this book explores
the extraordinary and unprecedented opportunities that the train
offered women. An emblem of the conquest of national and imperial
space and of the staggering advances of science and technology, the
train gave women a taste of its omnipotence, eventually becoming a
space of emancipation, transgression, but also fear for women. The
book brings together the sensation, mystery, realist, and early
modernist railway narratives by female and male authors, analyzing
women's trajectories within and beyond the city but also the
nation, as urban passengers, travellers, tourists, and colonists.
In texts by authors such as Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Margaret
Oliphant, Rhoda Broughton, Mary Ward, Flora Annie Steel, and Mona
Caird but also Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy, and Henry James, the
ambiguous space of the railway highlights the artificiality of the
private/public divide, while giving rise to woman's impulse to
traverse boundaries, not only physically but also mentally and
emotionally. In the novels, short stories in periodicals, news
items and commentaries, essays, illustrations, and paintings
examined, trains become contact zones of multiple encounters, but
also battlefields of gender, class, and imperial ideology. The
first full length examination of texts by and about women which
explore the railway as a gendered space within a British, European,
and Imperial context. This book explores a variety of cultural
discourses which deal with women and the railway: fiction, poetry,
news stories and commentaries, essays, paintings, and
illustrations. It concentrates on many understudied writers of the
19th century. It includes 9 images to help illustrate the study.
|
|