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Lost in the Shadow of the Word : Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe / Benjamin Paloff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Paloff, Benjamin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modernism (Literature).
- Space and time in literature.
- Slavic literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Slavic literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- 2018 AATSEEL Prize for Best Book in Literary Scholarship Scholars of modernism have long addressed how literature, painting, and music reflected the radical reconceptualization of space and time in the early twentieth century--a veritable revolution in both physics and philosophy that has been characterized as precipitating an "epistemic trauma".
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The metaphysics of reading in-between
- In medias res : on spatial intermediacy (Bruno Schulz, Andrei Platonov)
- In the meantime : on temporal intermediacy (Osip Mandel'shtam, Czeslaw Milosz)
- A certain space of time : intermediacy in the modern polis (Nikolai Zabolotskii, Vitezslav Nezval)
- When you're not really feeling yourself : immaturity and the double (Witold Gombrowicz, Karel Capek, Richard Weiner)
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-3415-2
- OCLC:
- 966765629
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