现货Portable Modernisms: The Art of Travelling Light (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture)[9781474452465]

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作者Ridge, Emily

出版社Edinburgh University Press

ISBN9781474452465

出版时间2019-05

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页数224页

正文语种英语

上书时间2023-06-20

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商品描述: A wide-ranging study of the rise of a new culture of portability and its impact on modernist approaches to fictionLuggage is an overlooked detail in the stock sketch of the expatriated modernist writer from the valise-fashioned desks of both James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov to the lost manuscript-laden cases of Ernest Hemingway and Walter Benjamin. While the trope of modernist exile has long been spotlighted, little attention has been given to the material meaning of this condition. What things and objects do modernism's exiles and émigrés carry with them and how does the act of carriage enter into the modernist picture more broadly? What are the implications and historical resonances of a portable outlook, particularly from the angles of gender, wartime conflict and character conception? Above all, how far does such an outlook impact upon artistic vision? Portability represents the simultaneous transportation and repudiation of domesticity and the home, those key frames ofre

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