Georges Perec's geographies : : material, performative and textual spaces / / edited by Charles Forsdick, Andrew N. Leak, Richard Phillips.
Georges Perec, novelist, filmmaker and essayist, was one of the most inventive and original writers of the twentieth century. A fascinating aspect of his work is its intrinsically geographical nature. With major projects on space and place, Perec's writing speaks to a variety of geographical, u...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : UCL Press,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 258 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: Georges Perec's geographies
- Perecquian geographies
- Part I: Perec's geographies
- 2. The mapping of loss
- 3. 'Entre Frence et Engleterre': Toponyms and the poetics of reference in Perec's fiction
- 4. Vanishing points: Shifting perspectives on The Man Who Sleeps / Un homme qui dort
- 5. Species of Spaces and the politics of scale: Perec, Gaullism and geography after Lefebvre
- 6. Accumulation versus dispersion: Perec and 'his' diaspora 7. Islands, camps, zones: Towards a nissological reading of Perec8. Textual, audio and physical space: Adapting Perec's radio plays for theatre
- Part II: Perecquian geographies
- 9. Perecquian soundscapes
- 10. Perecquian spaces for performance practice
- 11. Embodiment and everyday space: Dancing with Georges Perec
- 12. Seeing more flatly: The Regional Book
- 13. Endotic Englishness: Meades, Perec and the everyday curiosities of place
- 14. Perecquian fieldwork: Photography and the fairground
- 15. 'Force yourself to see more flatly': A photographic investigation of the infra-ordinary.