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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Katia Pizzi , Roberta Gefter WondrichPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2024 Weight: 0.421kg ISBN: 9783031355455ISBN 10: 3031355458 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 03 January 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part 1. Modernism and Peripherality: Theoretical Considerations.-1.1.Benita Parry – ‘Stylistic Irrealism in Peripheral Literatures as Symptom, Mediation and Critique of Modernity’.-1.2.Irene Ramalho Santos – ‘What is Peripheral about Peripheral Modernisms?’.- Part 2. Liminality in the ‘Semi-peripheries’.- 2.1. Katia Pizzi – ‘Trieste and the Untranslatable Modernism’.- 2.2. Roberta Gefter – ‘“From the Periphery of the Metropolis”: on Joyce’s Modern Irish Peripherealities’.- 2.3. Marilena Parlati – ‘Australian Modernisms Strike Back, or still Harping on “Margins”’.- Part 3. Metropolis, Technology, Cultural Transfer.- 3.1. Andreas Kramer – ‘Geographies of Peripheral Modernism: The Case of the Russian Avant-Garde (Khlebnikov, Eisenstein, Tret’iakov)’.- 3.2. Patricia Silva – ‘Transcultural Reception in the Postcolonial Periphery: Brazilian Modernism and the European Avant-Garde’.- 3.3. Ali Mozaffari & Nigel Westbrook – ‘In Search of the Authentic Modern: The Rhetoric of Architecture in Late 20th Century Iran’.ReviewsAuthor InformationKatia Pizzi is Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London and Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in London, UK. She has published extensively on the literary culture, memory and history of cities, especially the volumes The Literary Identities of European Cities (2011), Trieste: italianità, triestinità e male di frontiera (2007) and A City in Search of an Author: The Literary Identity of Trieste (2001). Pizzi’s most recent books include Italian Futurism and the Machine (2019), a monograph focusing on the cultural relationships between Modernism and industrial technology, including ‘peripheral’ areas. Pizzi’s current research interests include urban Modernism, the Cold War, future cities and cultural memory. Since 2020 Pizzi has been Director of the Italian Cultural Institute London, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Roberta GefterWondrich is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Trieste, Italy, and general editor of Prospero, Rivista di letterature e culture straniere – A Journal of foreign literatures and cultures. She specialises in the field of contemporary Irish fiction, on which she has written a book and many articles. Her field of interests includes the contemporary English and Irish novel, neo-Victorianism, biofiction, James Joyce, J. M. Coetzee, thing theory and sea narratives. She is currently working on a monograph on the cultural object in contemporary fiction in English. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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