The Woman of the Crowd : : Urban Displacement and Failed Encounters in Surrealist and Postmodern Writing.
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| Superior document: | Postmodern Studies |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 2000. ©2000. |
| Year of Publication: | 2000 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Postmodern Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (223 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword and Acknowledgements. Introduction. Chapter 1 Reading fragments in the entropic city: Baudelaire, Breton and the pursuit of the sphinx in the crowd. Chapter 2 On the frontier of nonsense: Breton's Nadja and the failed encounter. Chapter 3 Marcel Duchamp/Rrose Sélavy: the artist as transvestite and the corrosive encounter of opposites in space. Chapter 4 Sites of dismemberment: zones, nowhere places and the end of the quest in American Postmodern fiction. Chapter 5 A linguistic wilderness: maps in ruins in Thomas Pynchon's post-industrial zones. Chapter 6 The collage city and the displaced narrator in the short stories of Donald Barthelme. Chapter 7 Electronic bodies and humor in Laurie Anderson's empty places. Bibliography.