Life writing and space / edited by Eveline Kilian and Hope Wolf ; with the assistance of Kathrin Tordasi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kilian, Eveline, editor.

Wolf, Hope, editor.

Tordasi, Kathrin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space in literature.

Self in literature.

Physical Description:

xiv, 230 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2016]

Contents:

The Spatial Dimensions of Life Writing / Eveline Kilian and Hope Wolf

Multiple Occupancy : Residency and Retrospection in Trollope's Orley Farm and An Autobiography / Matthew Ingleby

Lost Cities and Found Lives : The "Geographical Emotions" of Bryher and Walter Benjamin / Andrew Thacker

Hilary Mantel and the Space of Life Writing / Neil Vickers

Literary Configurations of the Peripatetic / Helga Schwalm

"The mystery-magic of foreignness" : Mr Isherwood Changes Places / Eveline Kilian

Critical Topographies in Depression Era Lives / Martin Klepper and Alexandra Wagner

Postcolonial Literary Cartography : Writing the Self in Contemporary Algeria / Elizabeth H. Jones

Inhabiting the In-Between : (Mis)placing Identity in Katherine Mansfield's Notebooks / Kathrin Tordasi

Isaac Rosenberg's Life in Letters : Between the "coil of circumstance" and a "place for poetry" / Anne-Julia Schoen

Spaces of Intervention : Hélène Cixous's Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint / Frédéric Regard

Strandlines : Eccentric Stories, Thoroughfare Poetics and the Future of the Archive / Hope Wolf

The Columbus of the Near-at-Hand : The Author as Traveller through the Everyday / James Attlee

There's No Space Like Home / Clare Brant.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472427946

1472427947

OCLC:

923796891