Eccentricities: Writing in the Margins of Modernism: St. Petersburg to Rio de Janeiro

by Sharon Allen

An innovative, interdisciplinary, incisive scholarly study remapping and redefining domains and dynamics of modernism, EccentriCities: Writing in the margins of modernism critically considers how geo-historically distant and disparate urban sites, concentrating Russian and Luso-Brazilian cultural dialogue and definition, give rise to peculiarly parallel anachronistic and alternative fictional forms. While comparatively reframing these literary traditions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719087708
• ISBN13: 9780719087707
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 464 Pages